Caritas Holy Family Hospital in Methuen, MA, will have a new president effective May 4. Lester P. Schindel, most recently president of New England Sinai Hospital in Boston, will succeed Tom Sager, who will take over a newly created position as executive director of the Holy Family Foundation, and vice president of Caritas Christi Health Care Development. Sager, of Haverhill, officially takes on the new job June 12. Sager will remain on for about three months at the hospital to help Schindel with the transition.
Roger Seaver, president and CEO of Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Valencia, has been named chairman of the Hospital Association of Southern California HASC for 2009. Seaver was named president and CEO of Henry Mayo in 2001 after being brought in as a consultant to assist the financially troubled hospital.
LifePoint Hospitals, Inc. has named Jeffrey Sherman, 43, executive vice president and CFO. Sherman, currently vice president and treasurer at Tenet Healthcare, will succeed David M. Dill who, as planned, will become the LifePoint's executive vice president and COO. Sherman and Dill will report directly to William F. Carpenter III, president and CEO.
David Benn, the chief hospital executive for Sutter Health in the Northern San Joaquin Valley in California, has a new position overseeing the three Sutter hospitals and physician organizations in the region. In addition to serving as CEO for Memorial Medical Center, Benn has been responsible for coordinating services with Sutter Tracy Community Hospital and Memorial Hospital Los Banos. He now oversees the hospitals and the Sutter Gould Medical Foundation, which has medical offices in Stanislaus, San Joaquin and Merced counties. A new CEO will be hired at Memorial in Modesto.
Susan D. DeVore has been named president and CEO of the Premier healthcare alliance. She and current CEO Rick Norling are coordinating the transition process. DeVore is currently Premier's COO. Before joining Premier, DeVore spent more than 20 years with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young as a senior healthcare industry management practice leader and member of the executive committee for the North American consulting organization.
University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer stepped into the fray over a controversial proposal to redirect patients from the university hospital's emergency room, announcing steps to come up with "a better plan." In an internal memo, Zimmer said a committee led by the newly appointed chairman of the department of medicine would "review, refine and modify" proposals initiated by the medical center's chief executive and dean of the medical school.