Keeping Up

October 2023

Dover

Beaudry

Striebich

Cullinan

Jorgensen

Parkey

Tilley

 

PRESIDENTS/CEOS
James Dover to president and CEO of Avera Health starting Oct. 23. He was most recently in the same position at Sparrow Health, based in Lansing, Michigan.

Bo Beaudry to Ascension senior vice president and ministry market executive for Ascension Oklahoma. He was CEO for Cedar Park Regional Medical Center in Cedar Park, Texas, which is a joint venture involving Ascension Seton in Texas.

Shannon Striebich to president and CEO of the Trinity Health Michigan Market, from senior vice president of operations of that market and president of Trinity Health Oakland and Trinity Health Livonia
hospitals.

Kevin Cullinan to CEO for St. Anthony Hospital, Lakewood, Colorado. He was vice president and chief ambulatory officer for CommonSpirit Health's Colorado/Kansas/Utah Division. Cullinan was a CHA Tomorrow's Leader honoree in 2017. St. Anthony is part of CommonSpirit.

Steven Jorgensen is retiring as president of St. Mary's Health System and senior vice president for Covenant Health but will remain in an advisory capacity through Dec. 31. Cindy Segar-Miller will be interim president of St. Mary's Health System while a search for Jorgensen's successor is conducted. St. Mary's is part of Covenant Health of Tewksbury, Massachusetts.

Lydia Parkey to president of St. Bernards Foundation, part of St. Bernards Healthcare in Jonesboro, Arkansas. She was director of physician marketing and executive director for St. Bernards Medical Group.

ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES
Dr. Nandita Gupta to chief medical officer of PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center in Longview, Washington.

Lesley Tilley to regional vice president of operations for Our Lady of the Lake Health, a subsidiary of Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Tilley will oversee the strategic direction and day-to-day operations of four FMOLHS critical access hospitals, a mental and behavioral health service line and ambulatory sites.

GRANTS AND GIFTS
Trinity Health has received $12.5 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to start a hub to provide diabetes prevention programming to adults over 65 and Black and Latino/Hispanic adults 18 or older who are at risk for type 2 diabetes. The Trinity Health hub will be one of four in the nation. It will offer a 12-month lifestyle change program designed to help participants achieve moderate weight loss through healthy eating habits and increased physical activity. The hub's overall goals are to improve access to its programming, reduce disparities in outcomes, increase the use of existing coverage benefits, and work to expand payer coverage of this evidence-based intervention.

PeaceHealth has pledged to donate $2.8 million to Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. Over the past nearly 20 years, PeaceHealth has been investing in the growth of the college's nursing program. This new commitment provides four years of funding, which will allow for an increase in the number of nursing students, which in time is to result in an expansion of the local nursing workforce, according to a press release. The funds also will enable the nursing program to reestablish and expand a respiratory therapy program.

ANNIVERSARY
HSHS St. Joseph's Hospital Breese in Illinois, 125 years.

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