Dan Kennedy, president and chief executive officer of Riddle Memorial Hospital, Media, Pa., will retire by January 2009. Kennedy, who was named the hospitals top executive in 2001, joined Riddle Memorial in 1979.
In a memo to staff, Kennedy, 60, said no successor has yet been named and Donald Arthur, chief medical officer of Riddle Memorials parent company, Main Line Health, Bryn Mawr, Pa., will act as interim president as directors, medical staff and Main Line Healths leadership search for a successor. Kennedy joined Riddle from Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, Darby, Pa. -- by Melanie Evans