New Orleans-based Ochsner Health has named Thomas Rhodes chief operating officer of its River Region.
Executive Moves
Steven Varga, PhD, is the new dean of Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
William Kiefer, DNP, RN, has been named CEO of Ottumwa (Iowa) Regional Health Center as law enforcement investigates the death of an employee who they say committed a series of assaults at the hospital.
Tioga (N.D.) Medical Center has named Jamie Eraas its new CEO.
Charleston, W.V.-based Vandalia Health, which was created by the merger of two West Virginia health systems, has named a CIO and chief technology officer.
The Hospitals of Providence, an eight-hospital health system based in El Paso, Texas, has promoted David Byrd to CEO of its Transmountain campus, El Paso Inc. reported Feb. 1.
Overland Park, Kan.-based HCA Midwest Health has named Miah Stutts as its new CFO.
Melissa Wood, DNP, began her role as chief operating officer and chief nursing officer at MercyOne Clinton (Iowa) Medical Center on Jan. 30.
Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas (Calif.) has named Randall Goskowicz, MD, its new chief of staff.
Richard Mendola has been named vice president and CIO of Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins University both based in Baltimore.