Executive Moves

Joseph Theine is the new CEO of Southwest Health System in Cortez, Colo.

Companies announced 1,261 CEO exits in the first eight months of 2023, with 116 occurring in hospitals.

Medical staff members at Opelika-based East Alabama Health have voted J. Gary Bridges, DO, their next chief of staff. 

Pittsburgh-based UPMC has named Robert Strony, DO, as its senior medical quality officer, who will oversee practices in north central Pennsylvania, according to a Sept. 22 news release.

Joe Rudisill is the new CEO of HCA Florida Englewood Hospital, part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare.  

A vigil for the CEO of One Brooklyn Health is to be held Sept. 25 after multiple reports said LaRay Brown had been fired by the board of the three-hospital system.

Tim Moore, president of the Mississippi Hospital Association for a decade, has been fired from his role, according to a Sept. 22 Mississippi Today report. The report was subsequently confirmed by the MHA.

Debra Feigin Sukin, PhD, has been selected as the new president of Houston-based Texas Children's, effective Jan. 8.

Oneida (N.Y.) Health named Felissa Koernig president and CEO, effective Sept. 18. 

Financially strapped Watsonville (Calif.) Community Hospital selected a new CEO to chart the course out of bankruptcy and into public ownership, according to Lookout Santa Cruz.