Heywood Healthcare in Gardner is replacing the CEO who has led the hospital system for 12 years, citing the changing healthcare landscape and the need to continue meeting its community's goals. Win Brown, president and CEO at Heywood, will be replaced in his role by co-CEOs, according to a Tuesday press release from Heywood. Rozanna Penney, current vice president of patient care services, chief nursing officer, and chief operating officer, and executive director of Heywood Medical Group, as well as Tom Sullivan, current vice president of financial services, will share in the top leadership role.
Northern Arizona Healthcare’s Board of Directors announced June 5 that incoming CEO David Cheney advanced his start date and will begin as CEO Monday, June 12. Cheney was scheduled to begin on Monday, July 10. Chief Operating Officer Josh Tinkle has served as an interim CEO since Aug. 12, when the board announced Florence 'Flo' Spyrow had "stepped down as the system president and chief executive officer."
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital has appointed Alan Lee as its new president. The new role took effect Wednesday, according to a statement from RWJBarnabas Health, the hospital’s parent health system. Lee, who previously served as chief operating officer at the New Brunswick facility, will continue as COO in the interim while the hospital looks for a successor, the statement said.
Compass Medical, whose abrupt closure last week upended care for the practices' 70,000 patients, had recently been in negotiations with the nation's largest physician organization for a possible acquisition.