Executive Moves

Scott Kashman was named president of Ascension St. Vincent's Riverside in Jacksonville, Fla., part of St. Louis-based Ascension.

Auburn (N.Y.) Community Hospital has named Joshua Alexander chief operating officer, fingerlakes1.com reported Sept. 18. 

Tom Thompson is stepping down as president and chief operating officer of Porter Medical Center in Middlebury, Vt. 

Seattle Children's has tapped Vittorio Gallo, PhD, as its senior vice president and chief scientific officer. 

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine is beginning its search for a CEO and the next dean of its medical school. 

TriStar Hendersonville (Tenn.) Medical Center has appointed Lawana Leonhardt, MSN, RN, as the facility's first associate chief nursing officer. 

Michelle Gaskill-Hames, BSN, MHA, was appointed regional president of Kaiser Permanente for Southern California and Hawaii. 

Steve Young has been named CEO of HCA Florida Blake Hospital in Bradenton, part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare. 

Becker's has reported hundreds of hospital and health system executive moves so far in 2023. Many of those were at the largest health systems in the U.S. 

Wilmington, Del.-based Nemours Children's Health appointed Matthew Davis, MD, as executive vice president, enterprise physician-in-chief and chief scientific officer, effective Nov. 1.