Tenet Healthcare Corp. and its affiliates Hilton Head Hospital and Coastal Carolina Hospital announced the appointment of new CEOs. Mark O'Neil Jr. became market CEO of Hilton Head Regional Healthcare, which includes Hilton Head Hospital, Coastal Carolina Hospital, and associated outpatient centers, effective Nov. 30. William J. Masterton joins Coastal Carolina Hospital as its CEO and report directly to O'Neil.
John Hirsch, MD, resigned this week as CEO of Forest Park Hospital after less than a year on the job. The stint as CEO was Hirsch's second at the hospital, having also served in the role from December 2004 to August 2005. Prior to his first run as CEO, Hirsch failed in an attempt with other physicians to purchase the hospital. Success Healthcare LLC of Boca Raton, FL, purchased Forest Park and St. Alexius hospitals of St. Louis last December from Envision Hospital Corp. of Arizona. The company named Jim O'Keefe as interim CEO of Forest Park. O'Keefe previously worked as an executive at BH1 and Baptist Hospital in Nashville, TN. Most recently O'Keefe served as interim CFO of Cape Cod Healthcare in Massachusetts.
James Utterback has been named CEO of M2Gen, a wholly owned for-profit subsidiary of Moffitt Cancer Center, effective Dec. 7. Utterback will be responsible for developing and implementing effective growth strategies, determining commercialization opportunities, and establishing and executing pharmaceutical company-funded clinical trials.
Patty White, RN, has been named the new president/CEO of Chandler Regional Medical Center, a Catholic Healthcare West hospital. White will begin the transition immediately from her role as COO at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, and took on the new role at Chandler Regional full-time as of Nov. 30. She replaces David Covert, who went to Charlotte, NC-based MedCath Corp. as senior vice president in May. Mark Kem, CFO of Chandler Regional, has served as interim president for the past six months.
HCA has named Joseph A. Sowell, III, as senior vice president/chief development officer, effective Dec. 1. Currently a senior partner at Nashville-based healthcare law firm Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, Sowell, 53, will be responsible for all activities related to mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures for HCA, which operates 163 hospitals and 105 ambulatory surgery centers in 20 states and England.
Thomas E. Jackiewicz has been named CEO of UC San Diego Medical Center, which includes Hillcrest Medical Center, Thornton Hospital, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, Shiley Eye Center, and the Sulpizio Family Cardiovascular Center that is scheduled for completion in 2011. Jackiewicz previously served as associate vice chancellor and CFO for Health Sciences at the UCSD. During his career, he served as COO of Columbia University Medical Center, senior associate chair for finance and administration at the Stanford University School of Medicine, director of finance and administration for Oregon Health Sciences University, and director of business and financial operations at the University of Pennsylvania Health System.