PRESIDENT/CEO
Trinity Health and organizations within that system have announced these changes:
Robert Baxter to president and CEO of MercyOne in Iowa, succeeding Michael Taylor, who held the role in an interim capacity. Baxter was president of the Toledo, Ohio, market of Bon Secours Mercy Health.
Dr. Steve Hanks will be president and CEO of Hartford, Connecticut-based Trinity Health Of New England while continuing to lead Trinity Health New York. Dr. Robert Roose, who leads Trinity Health Of New England’s Community Hospitals, will become interim president of Hartford’s Saint Francis Hospital and Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital. Jennifer Misajet will become interim chief nursing officer. Montez Carter will assume an advisory role supporting Hanks and Roose during this transition—he will depart the organization effective July 1.
ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES
Hospital Sisters Health System of Springfield, Illinois, and organizations within that system have made these changes: Jim Barber to president of the Springfield-based Hospital Sisters of St. Francis Foundation and vice president of philanthropy, from interim president. Jennifer Morton to market chief nursing officer for HSHS Wisconsin.
Mark "Mo" Moir to senior vice president and chief people officer for Mercy health system of Chesterfield, Missouri.
GIFTS AND GRANTS
Mercy College of Health Sciences of Des Moines, Iowa, has broken ground on the Joyce E. Lillis School of Nursing. Terrance J. and Joyce E. Lillis provided the lead gift of $2.5 million toward a Legacy of Faith Capital Campaign that will help fund construction. A goal of that campaign is to modernize the college’s downtown Des Moines campus. The college is connected with Trinity Health and MercyOne.
Saint Francis Hospital’s Curtis D. Robinson Center for Health Equity in Hartford, Connecticut, has received a $1.5 million federal investment to strengthen trauma recovery and victim services across the greater Hartford region. The funding will support critical staffing needs and expand access to coordinated, trauma-informed mental health care for individuals and families impacted by violence. As part of this work, Saint Francis will combine two community-based, trauma-informed therapy programs — the Greater Hartford Family Advocacy Center and Saint Francis’ Hospital-based Violence Intervention Program — into a single, coordinated care system. Saint Francis is part of Trinity Health.