Mark Henke will be the next president/CEO of Northfield Hospital & Clinics. Henke is now the CEO for Sanford Hospital Luverne (MN). Before that he was COO for Winneshiek Medical Center in Decorah, IA. He is expected to assume his new responsibilities around April 1. He succeeds longtime president and CEO Ken Bank, who plans to retire this year.
Thomas F. Zenty III, CEO of University Hospitals, has announced a new leadership structure that includes the addition of two key new members and two new positions for current UH leadership. Senior leadership will now be organized into three areas: clinical operations, system administrative services, and system staff functions. Leading UH clinical operations is COO Achilles Demetriou, MD. The new System CMO Eric Bieber, MD, joined the health system Jan. 1, and comes from Geisinger Health System in Danville, PA. Zenty will lead System Staff functions and have direct leadership of the hospital's strategic planning, financial development, legal affairs, institutional relations and development, diversity initiatives, hospital/physician compliance, and human resources.
Shore Memorial Hospital COO Ron Johnson will succeed current President/CEO Albert L. Gutierrez at the end of 2011. The announcement caps an 11-month search for a successor. For the interim, Johnson has been promoted to executive vice president, and the two executives have worked through a detailed plan that will transfer roles and responsibilities from Gutierrez to Johnson. Gutierrez was appointed CEO at Shore Memorial in 2002.
National Public Radio, citing data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, offered a job growth Top 10 list for the next decade. Four of the Top 10 job growth areas are in healthcare: No. 1 on the list is registered nurses. No. 2 is home health aides. No. 5 is personal and home care aides. No. 9 is nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants.
Market research firm Borrell Associates says the healthcare industry, which topped the list in 2009 with more than 500,000 job openings, is expected to continue to hold first place in 2010 as well, with job openings expected to exceed 600,000.
The owner of two research hospitals affiliated with the Harvard Medical School has imposed restrictions on outside pay for two dozen senior officials who also sit on the boards of pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies. The rules, which became effective Jan. 1, impose limits specifically on outside directors who guide some of the nation’s biggest companies. Medical experts say they believe the conflict-of-interest rules at the institution, Partners HealthCare, go further than those of any other academic medical center in restricting outside pay from drug companies, the New York Times reports.