Dana Woods will serve as the next CEO of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, a specialty nursing organization based in Aliso Viejo, Calif.
Woods, 49, will succeed Wanda Johanson on Jan. 1 as Johanson retires after 14 years as CEO. Woods has been a member of AACN's senior leadership since 1999. The organization represents more than 235 chapters that include more than 500,000 acute and critical-care nurses around the globe.
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Gregory Angle will become president of the Salt Lake City-based mountain division of hospital chain HCA on Jan. 1, succeeding retiring executive John Hanshaw.
Angle, 52, will oversee 10 hospitals in Utah, Idaho and Alaska. He currently serves as the CEO for one of HCA's hospitals, Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, Calif., where he has worked since joining HCA in 2009.
Hanshaw, 59, has been president of the mountain division since 2005.
Connie Bradley joined Rockledge, Fla.-based Health First as chief nursing officer, effective Nov. 11. Bradley, 48, comes to the not-for-profit system from Columbia St. Mary's Hospital, a Milwaukee division of Ascension Health, where she was VP of hospital operations and CNO.
The board of directors for Benedictine Health System, a not-for-profit Catholic system based in Duluth, Minn., appointed Rocklon Chapin president and CEO. On Jan. 1 Chapin will replace Dale Thompson, 66, who is retiring. Chapin, 62, has served as Benedictine's senior VP of business development and strategic planning since January 2013.
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Brigham and Women's Hospital, an academic medical center in Boston that is a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, named Dr. Cedric Priebe CIO.
Priebe, 51, currently serves as CIO and senior VP of information services at the Care New England Health System in Providence, R.I. He is expected to join Brigham and Women's Hospital in January.
He replaces Sue Schade, who in 2012 was named CIO of University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers. During the search process, Bill Johnston, COO of Brigham and Women's Physicians Organization, served as interim CIO of Brigham and Women's Hospital, which is part of the Partners HealthCare system, the largest hospital system in Massachusetts.
Steve Mackin is the new COO for Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
Mackin most recently served as president and CEO of Southwestern Regional Medical Center, CTCA's facility in Tulsa, Okla. He has worked for the company in various roles since 1998, when he joined the national network of hospitals as its first management fellow.
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WellCare Health Plans named Dr. Robert Hilliard Jr. state president of Illinois as of Nov. 18.
Hilliard, 48, and an OB-GYN, served as the COO for UnitedHealthcare's Community Plan in Texas before coming to WellCare. In his new role, he leads WellCare's Medicare Advantage business, its subsidiary Harmony Health Plan's Medicaid business and growth initiatives for Illinois.
Dave Reynolds, now WellCare's region president for Connecticut, Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, New York and Ohio, was previously responsible for the business and growth efforts in Illinois now under Hilliard's direction.
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