Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center has named Sandee Moore COO of the hospital's administrative team. Moore has served in various capacities with HCA for 5 years. Moore comes to EIRMC from Sunrise Medical Center, a 700-bed hospital in Las Vegas, where she served as Associate Administrator. Before that, she worked for HCA's HealthONE Medical Center of Aurora, a 384-bed hospital in Denver.
The Jupiter Medical Center Board of Trustees has selected John D. Couris as the hospital's new CEO. Couris, 42, will join JMC in mid-June. He currently serves as COO and administrator for Morton Plant North Bay Hospital in Tampa. He brings 17 years of healthcare leadership experience to his new role, including seven years at Massachusetts General Hospital.
As Atlanta-based Grady Memorial Hospital scrambles to save money, officials are spending about $1 million dollars a year on a marketing campaign to improve the hospital's tarnished image, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. While Grady officials say the marketing campaign is necessary to attract financial donations and paying patients, some healthcare advocates object to the financially fragile hospital spending the money on advertising instead of patient care.
Paul Levy, chief executive of Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, said that senior staff and hospital board members warned him for years about the pitfalls of his longtime close relationship with a female employee, but for reasons he does not fully understand he ignored their advice. Levy, in his first interview about the controversy, said he made a "big mistake" by believing that he could hire and employ his "close personal friend" for years at the Harvard teaching hospital without upsetting other employees and potentially damaging the reputation of the institution.
When the Comprehensive Breast Care Institute of Bucks County, PA, went under last year, the ever-growing Rothman Institute snatched up the 120,000-square-foot building. Earlier this year, Rothman opened a new orthopedic hospital just before the new health law made it practically impossible to open or expand physician-owned hospitals. Critics say that such facilities weaken community hospitals by siphoning off the most lucrative patients and that doctors have an incentive to do more expensive procedures when they own the hospital. Rothman leaders, though, say that they already were attracting many patients from Bucks County and New Jersey and that the newly acquired building will improve patient access, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
Nashville, TN-based Centennial Medical Center is set to start construction of a new heart center. The hospital will add 100,000 square feet for heart patients, update existing heart treatment areas, add new surgery rooms, and increase bed space. The expansion is the second part of a two-phase, $143 million project at the hospital. In Tennessee, Centennial's growth is the latest move by a hospital to expand treatment options and space to woo heart patients. Over the years, competition has been measured in big budgets for ad campaigns, aggressive recruiting of top cardiologists, and new facilities, The Tennessean reports.