Hayley Hovious to head Nashville Healthcare Council, and other news makers

Hayley Hovious has been named president of the Nashville Healthcare Council, a group that represents the region's influential for-profit healthcare industry. She begins her role June 1.

Hovious, 37, replaces Caroline Young, who has served as president since 2008 and is leaving the organization to work on an undisclosed project with former Tennessee Sen. Bill Frist.

She joins the council from the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, where she was trade director. The Nashville native also has served as brand manager at E.J. Gallo Winery in Modesto, Calif.

Scott Leitz has been named chief transformation officer at the Health Care Cost Institute.

Leitz, 49, has been CEO at MNsure, the Minnesota health insurance marketplace, for the past 15 months. At not-for-profit HCCI, Leitz will promote and expand initiatives that make pricing and quality outcomes more transparent. He'll also oversee Guroo, a website that provides national, state and local cost information about common health conditions and services.

Allison O'Toole, MNsure's deputy director for external affairs, has been named interim CEO. O'Toole will take over on May 22 and Leitz will join HCCI on June 8.

Dr. Robert Kimball has been named president at the Urgent Care Association of America, a membership organization for urgent-care providers and managers. He replaces Dr. Nathan Newman, who served as president from 2013 to 2015.

Kimball currently practices urgent care and occupational medicine at Statesville (N.C.) Urgent Care, part of Piedmont HealthCare, one of North Carolina's largest physician-owned and directed multispecialty groups.

He began his career spending 19 years in a rural family practice, which included emergency room coverage, obstetrics and assisting with surgery in his native Halifax, Nova Scotia. He also served as a hospital chief of staff and as president of the Nova Scotia Medical Society.

Dr. Mark Steele, chief medical officer at Truman Medical Centers, Kansas City, Mo., also has been named the organization's COO.

Steele, 58, will continue to serve as associate dean of Truman's programs for the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine and executive medical director of University Physician Associates, which provides the school's multispecialty faculty.

Currently an emergency medicine professor, Steele has been with Truman since he entered UMKC's six-year medical school program as an undergrad in 1974.

Mark Sarbiewski has been named chief marketing officer at Castlight Health, a developer of cost transparency software for self-insured employers and their employees.

Sarbiewski, 50, replaces Peter Isaacson, who left the company last year.

Prior to joining the health IT vendor, Sarbiewski was chief marketing officer at San Francisco-based Anaplan, a cloud-based planning platform for finance and sales. He also was chief marketing officer for Clustrix, a database provider, and spent a decade at Hewlett-Packard Co., holding several leadership positions.