Keeping Up

September 1, 2021
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PRESIDENTS AND CEOS
Doug Ekeren to regional president and chief executive of Avera Queen of Peace Hospital in Mitchell, South Dakota, from interim regional president and chief executive. He also will continue as regional president and chief executive of Avera Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton, South Dakota.

Chad Markham to president and chief executive of HSHS St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital in Effingham, Illinois, effective Sept. 7. He was chief operating officer with UnityPoint Health's St. Luke's Hospital in Sioux City, Iowa.

Robert Trautman to president of St. Luke's Health-Brazosport in Lake Jackson, Texas, part of CommonSpirit Health. He was interim chief executive of St. Joseph Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Dr. Kevin W. Yingling to chief executive for Mountain Health Network and president of Cabell Huntington Hospital and St. Mary's Medical Center. The facilities are in Huntington, West Virginia. Mountain Health Network is the parent company of Cabell and St. Mary's.

ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE
Deacon Paul Lim to vice president of mission integration for WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital in Wheeling, West Virginia.

GRANTS AND GIFTS
The Scripps Mercy Family Medicine Residency Program at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego and Chula Vista, California, will receive $2.85 million in grant funding from the Health Resources & Services Administration. The residency program will use the funds over the next five years to enhance physician training in family medicine, obstetrics and maternal and child health along the U.S.-Mexico border of San Diego and Imperial counties.

The Health Resources & Services Administration's Rural Communities Opioid Response Program has awarded a $1 million grant to the L.E. Phillips-Libertas Treatment Center, a service of HSHS St. Joseph's Hospital in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. The HRSA grant, combined with a $15,000 grant from the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis Foundation, will fund an opioid response plan for four northwest Wisconsin counties. The response includes community education, drug take-back events, youth addiction prevention programs, drug screenings and treatment, recruitment and professional development of alcohol and drug treatment providers, enhanced collaboration with law enforcement and first responders, use of integrated treatment models, development of a recovery community and data collection.

The Salah Foundation has granted $500,000 for the renovation and expansion of the congestive heart failure clinic at Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based Holy Cross Health. Capacity will be expanded to include the addition of patient exam rooms and support space for a patient/family consult area. Holy Cross is part of Trinity Health.


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