Community Health Systems has named the board of directors and other executives for Quorum Health Corp., the company that will spin off the system's small and rural hospitals.
The eight-member board includes Quorum Health CEO Thomas Miller, who was appointed in September; Dr. Barbara Paul, CHS' senior medical advisor; and William Hussey, who will retire from CHS at the end of the year as division president.
The remaining members of the board are: James Breedlove, a former industry gas company executive; Adam Feinstein, co-founder of a healthcare private-equity firm; former Tennessee Blues executive William Gracey; Joseph Hastings, an orthodontist in private practice; and Vanderbilt University Professor R. Lawrence Van Horn.
CHS also said three CHS executives would join Quorum Health. R. Harold McCard Jr. was named Quorum Health's general counsel. Dr. Shaheed Koury was named a senior executive of quality and medical staff relations and James Hayes will be a senior executive of operations.
Franklin, Tenn.-based CHS said in August that it would spin off its consulting company and 38 hospitals across 16 states into Quorum Health. A month later, CHS named Miller CEO of the new $2.1 billion enterprise and announced the sale of a Florida hospital to Prime Healthcare Services.
The transition team is coming in at a somewhat bumpy time. CHS last month disappointed analysts with a decline in hospital admissions and softer profits during its last quarter.
