The HealthCentral Network, Inc. has promoted Vice President for Business Development Jeremy Shane to president and COO. Shane has been with the company since 2006. The HealthCentral Network, Inc. is an online health resource, with more than 35 condition-specific and wellness sites.
Pinstripe, Inc., a human resources and recruitment outsourcing company, announced that Douglas S. Peters has joined the company's Healthcare Advisory Board. Peters is the former president and CEO of Jefferson Health System and co-founder of Advisors to Healthcare Suppliers.
The Florida Hospital Association has announced its Board of Trustees for 2009. The names of the incoming Officers and Trustees for the Association: Chair, Mark O'Bryant, President/CEO, Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare; Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, Steve Mason, President/CEO, BayCare Health System; Treasurer, Lars Houmann, President/CEO, Florida Hospital Orlando; and Immediate Past Chair, Tim Goldfarb, President, Shands Healthcare.
The Board of Directors of Capital BlueCross has unanimously elected Board Chairman William Lehr, Jr. as president and CEO. Lehr has been fulfilling chief executive responsibilities on an interim basis since the Sept. 15 resignation of former President and CEO Anita M. Smith.
Stanford Hospital & Clinics has appointed Daniel Ginsburg as its new chief operating officer, effective Jan. 12, 2009. Ginsburg succeeds Michael Peterson, whose retirement as the hospital's COO was announced in June, 2008. Ginsburg is currently senior vice president for Cancer and Women's Programs at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he also serves as president and chief operating officer of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization.
Because of information missing from a newspaper advertisement, the Loudoun County (VA) Planning Commission announced it will join the Board of Supervisors at a public hearing Nov. 20 on a proposed 164-bed hospital in Broadlands. This is the second time the commission has altered its schedule because of a mistake that county staff members made in providing notice of a public hearing on the proposed hospital. Healthcare network HCA Virginia wants to build on a 57.7-acre site. A hearing scheduled for Sept. 25 was moved to Oct. 15 after it was discovered that a sign at the Broadlands property listed the wrong location for the session.