John Bardis, chairman and CEO of MedAssets, resigns, and other news makers

John Bardis, chairman and CEO of MedAssets, resigned last week over family health issues, the company announced.

Bardis, who founded the publicly traded group purchasing and revenue-cycle management company in 1999, will stay on as a consultant. He built Alpharetta, Ga.-based MedAssets into one of the largest healthcare GPOs and oversaw the company's diversification into other areas, such as revenue-cycle services, for its hospital and health system clients.

Halsey Wise, a MedAssets board member since March 2014, has been named chairman and CEO. Wise previously was CEO of Lime Barrel Advisors, a private investment firm he founded in 2010.

Dr. Reginald Eadie, an medicine physician and CEO of the Detroit Medical Center's Harper-Hutzel Hospital, has been named CEO of DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital.

Eadie, 46, will assume the role on March 27, when current CEO Dr. Iris Taylor will retire after 40 years with the health system.

Before joining DMC in 2008, Eadie was emergency department chief and associate chief of staff of integrated clinical services at John D. Dingell VA Medical Center in Detroit. His first position with DMC was VP of medical affairs at Harper University Hospital and Hutzel Women's Hospital.

Eadie was named president of Detroit Receiving about two years later and president of DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital in January 2012. A native Detroiter, Eadie has served as CEO of Harper-Hutzel since October 2013.

The Joint Commission has named Dr. David Baker executive VP of its division of healthcare quality evaluation.

Baker, 56, replaces Jerod Loeb, who died from prostate cancer in October 2013.

Baker oversees the organization's departments of quality measurement, health services research, and standards and survey methods.

Before joining the Joint Commission, Baker was chief of general internal medicine and geriatrics at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and deputy director of its Institute for Public Health and Medicine.

Justin Weiss has been named VP of clinical and analytics at Plano, Texas-based Pharmaceutical Strategies Group, an independent pharmacy benefit and strategic consulting firm.

Weiss, 39, a certified geriatric pharmacist, had been VP of pharmacy operations for Austin, Texas-based Superior HealthPlan. He also held leadership positions at Medica Health Plans, Optum and Beverly Healthcare.

Dr. Marc Rothman has been promoted to senior VP and senior chief medical officer at post-acute provider Kindred Healthcare, Louisville, Ky.

Rothman, 44, served as senior VP and CMO of Kindred's nursing center division since November 2011, when he joined the company.

Before Kindred, Rothman directed post acute medical- and palliative-care services for Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center.