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In a series of leadership changes prompted by HCA CEO Richard Bracken's retirement at the end of this year, William Rutherford will become CFO and executive VP. Rutherford, 49, joined Nashville-based HCA in 1986 as a staff auditor and has served in a variety of roles, most recently as...
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Dr. Patrick Conway was named deputy administrator for innovation and quality at the CMS and director of the CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Conway served in the director position on an interim basis after the departure of Dr. Richard Gilfillan. Conway, who joined the...
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Eric Beyer, president and CEO of Tufts Medical Center in Boston since 2011, resigned Sept. 19. The academic medical center named Dr. Michael Wagner, president and CEO of the Tufts Medical Center Physicians Organization, interim CEO and asked Ellen Zane, vice chair and former...
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Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin was named to the Endowed Chair in Public Health at Xavier University of Louisiana. Benjamin, 56, stepped down from the surgeon general post in July after serving since 2009 under President Barack Obama. She...
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Adventist Health President and CEO Robert Carmen will retire April 1, 2014, after 44 years with the Roseville, Calif.-based health system. Carmen, 67, has served as president and CEO since October 2007. The board expects to reach a decision on his successor by the end of the year. Before...
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MGMA-ACMPE hired Garth Jordan as COO. Jordan previously served as director of marketing and business development for the Englewood, Colo.-based Medical Group Management Association from 1997 to 2000. Jordan, 47, most recently was VP of operations at Educause, a not-for-profit whose mission...
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With the Federal Trade Commission showing renewed interest in policing mergers among healthcare providers, Chairwoman Edith Ramirez appointed noted healthcare economist Martin Gaynor to lead the commission's Economics Bureau.
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Kaiser Permanente's George Halvorson handed off his CEO title to Bernard Tyson on July 1 and at the end of the year will relinquish his position as chairman, too.
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The Medical Device Innovation Consortium in Minneapolis named William Murray president and CEO, effective Aug. 12. MDIC is a public-private partnership between the Food and Drug Administration and the medical device industry. Murray, 52, most recently served as CEO of Envoy Medical, which...
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Patrick Muldoon was hired as president of UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., effective Aug. 26. Muldoon, 58, was named to his first CEO position at age 28, and has since led hospitals and health systems in Michigan, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Muldoon is president and CEO...
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