Dan Moncher, CFO of Firelands Regional Medical Center in Sandusky, Ohio, has been with the 400-bed teaching hospital since 1997, and he has been instrumental in helping Firelands achieve financial stability.
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Bob Morasko, CEO of Campbell County Memorial Hospital in Gillette, Wyo., has announced he will transition into a consulting role, effective Dec. 31, 2012.
In 2011, roughly 58.5 percent of workers with health coverage were in private sector self-insured health plans — a significant jump from 40.9 percent in 1998, according to a study from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (pdf).
St. Peter's Hospital in Helena, Mont., has named Nate Olson, CPA, MBA, president and CEO, effective Feb. 1, 2013.
David Kwiatkowski, a former employee of Exeter (N.H.) Hospital who allegedly spread a hepatitis C infection to more than 30 patients, was indicted by a grand jury on 14 federal charges, according to a Union Leader report.
For-profit hospital operators need to ensure their compensation advisers do not have conflicts of interest within their companies, and those rules also apply to non-profit health systems, according to an article in a Governance Institute (pdf) newsletter.
The Joint Commission's Center for Transforming Healthcare announced a project to reduce colorectal surgical site infections avoided 135 SSIs, resulting in more than $3.7 million in savings.
MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, Ill., has named J. Scott Steiner, FACHE, MBA, as CEO.
KentuckyOne Health in Louisville has named Melvin Alexander, CPA, MBA, as CFO, effective Dec. 4.
The following hospital and/or health system job eliminations were announced or implemented within the past month. They are listed by the number of employees or positions affected.