Patty West retired June 30 as executive CFO of the Pleasanton, Calif.-based The Permanente Medical Group, according to a July 3 LinkedIn post by her daughter Emily West. The physician-led medical group, part of Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, comprises almost…
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Anne Gunther, DNP, RN, has been named CEO of Pomerene Hospital in Millersburg, Ohio. Dr. Gunther has served as interim CEO for the past three months, according to a July 1 Facebook post from the hospital. She has more than…
Memphis, Tenn.-based Baptist Memorial Health Care’s BestHealth Employee Well-being Program named inaugural chief medical and well-being officers. Lia Lansky was named chief well-being officer, and will oversee the strategic design and administration of comprehensive well-being for the system and its…
Brentwood-based Ardent Health has named Elliot Brown senior vice president of finance, according to a post on his LinkedIn page. Mr. Brown joins Ardent after nearly 15 years with Brentwood, Tenn.-based Lifepoint Health, where he most recently served as the…
Wyatt Brieser has been named CEO of Hammond-Henry Hospital, a critical access hospital in Geneseo, Ill. Mr. Brieser joined the hospital in 2009 as a rehabilitation technician and later held roles including director of ancillary services and, most recently, vice…
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Jeff St. Clair, president and CEO of Springhill Medical Center in Mobile, Ala., will retire in August after 17 years at the helm. Mr. St. Clair is one of only three people to have held the hospital’s top leadership position,…
Dave Ressler, CEO of Aspen (Colo.) Valley Health, plans to retire in 2026, according to a July 2 letter published on the health system’s website. Mr. Ressler has spent 18 of his 30 years in healthcare with Aspen Valley Health,…
Bangor, Maine-based Northern Light Acadia Hospital named Charmaine Patel, MD, senior physician executive. She had served as medical director of adult inpatient services at Acadia since 2018, according to a July 1 system news release. Before joining Acadia in 2016,…
Jamestown (N.D.) Regional Medical Center has named Derek Schaff CFO. Mr. Schaff is joining the critical access hospital from Linton (N.D.) Regional Medical Center, where he served as CFO and COO since 2018, according to a July 2 news release.…
Franciscan Alliance has appointed four new leaders to key executive roles as the nonprofit Catholic health system undergoes leadership changes tied to recent retirements. The Mishawaka, Ind.-based health system announced the new appointments in a July 2 press release shared…