Tenet Healthcare Corp. has hired a former Bay Area hospital administrator as the CEO for Doctors Medical Center in Modesto. The Dallas-based company announced that Warren Kirk started work at the 398-bed Modesto hospital Monday. The Florida Avenue center has been without a CEO since Denny Litos departed in July to become a healthcare industry consultant.
St. Luke's Health System has announced the hiring of a new CEO for its Ketchum hospital. Cody Langbehn will take over as CEO of St. Luke's Wood River Medical Center on Jan. 23. He replaces interim CEO John Kee, who will now continue his role as vice president of physician services for St. Luke's Health System. Langbehn, executive director of regional operations at Billings Clinic in Billings, MT, will oversee operations of the 25-bed critical access hospital that serves central Idaho patients.
After 30 years of leadership, Chelsea Community Hospital's president/CEO will be retiring in January. Kathleen Griffiths will be replaced by Nancy Kay Graebner, who will officially join CCH in January. Graebner is currently the executive vice president of physician strategy and services for Bon Secours St. Francis Health System, Inc. in Greenville, SC. Griffiths, 68, said she had been considering retirement for awhile but had delayed it due to a number of major projects taking place at the hospital.
The Erlanger board of trustees unanimously approved Charlesetta Woodard-Thompson, the COO of the hospital, as the temporary president/CEO. Effective Jan. 1, Woodard-Thompson, who served as interim president and CEO of the hospital from 2003 to 2004 before current CEO Jim Brexler took over the position, replaces Brexler, who announced his resignation 12 days ago. Woodard-Thompson, who now makes $326,720, will be paid an annual salary of $486,720 as CEO. Brexler earned a salary of about $550,000. The circumstances that prompted Brexler's resignation haven't been made public.
In a series of major changes at some of the region's largest hospitals, Catholic Health Services of Long Island has named key executives to new posts at St. Joseph Hospital, Mercy Medical Center and Good Samaritan Hospital. The Rockville Centre-based system named Drew Pallas, a certified public accountant and COO of St. Joseph Hospital in Bethpage, as St. Joseph's new executive vice president/CAO. Aaron E. Glatt, MD, president/CEO of St. Joseph Hospital and its predecessor since 2007, was named executive vice president and CAO at Mercy Medical Center, in Rockville Centre. St. Joseph, which had been known as New Island Hospital as a stand-alone hospital, in January of 2010 merged into CHS and changed its name.
Mark A. Frey has been named president/CEO of the Alexian Brothers Health System. He succeeds Brother Thomas Keusenkothen, who retired on Dec.1. An Alexian Brother Health System employee for more than 25 years, Frey previously served as president/CEO of Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital, CEO of Alexian Rehabilitation Hospital, and vice president of the Alexian Brothers Health System Neurosciences Institute before being named Alexian Brothers Health System executive vice president in 2007. He will become the first layperson appointed as president/CEO in the health system's history.