One of the top executives at the University of Michigan Health System is retiring. Patricia Warner, executive director of the University of Michigan Health System's hospitals, plans to retire April 4 on her 67th birthday, UMHS announced today. The university plans to conduct a national search to replace Warner, who graduated from the School of Public Health in 1977. Warner, who held various roles at the university's hospitals during her 35 years of service, became associate director of the children's and women's hospitals in 1994. She was named executive director in 2009.
The Cambridge Health Alliance Board of Trustees today announced the selection of Patrick Wardell as the new Chief Executive Officer for Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA). Mr. Wardell currently serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer at Hurley Medical Center in Flint, MI. Mr. Wardell's appointment as Cambridge Health Alliance's new Chief Executive Officer is contingent on contract negotiations. Mr. Wardell has spent the last six years as the President and CEO at Hurley Medical Center. Mr. Wardell replaces Dennis D. Keefe, who resigned in July 2011 to become CEO of Care New England in Rhode Island. For the last six months, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Allison Bayer has served as Acting CEO, a role she will continue during the transition. It is expected Mr. Wardell will join CHA in early to mid-March.
Rose Campbell has been named as president of Brookville Hospital, according to Raymond A. Graeca, CEO of Penn Highlands Healthcare, the hospital's parent company. She replaces John Sutika who held this position until becoming president of DuBois Regional Medical Center in July 2011. Gary Macioce has been interim president and will remain at the hospital in that capacity until a new CNO is hired.
Bartlett Regional Hospital's Board of Directors announced that Dennis Stillman will begin as interim chief financial officer on Feb. 1. The interim appointment is expected to last six months and will not exceed 12 months. Stillman has extensive experience in healthcare financial management, having served as interim CFO service at Samaritan Healthcare in Moses Lake, WA; The Polyclinic in Seattle and Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, WA. Stillman lectured at the University of Washington and the University of Colorado-Denver. He was Associate Administrator and CFO at the University of Washington Medical Center and Vice President and CFO at Pacific Medical Center.
Troy DeDecker has been named CEO Bartow Regional Medical Center after serving as COO since 2010. Most recently, DeDecker served as Vice President of Operations and Interim Chief Operating Officer at HCA's Research Medical Center in Kansas City, MO. From 2001 to 2006, DeDecker served as a director at Menorah Medical Center in Overland Park, KS. DeDecker earned his M.A. in Health Services Administration from the University of Kansas School of Medicine.
Capital Regional Medical Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Brian T. Cook, FACHE, as its new Chief Executive Officer. Cook brings several years of healthcare experience to this role, most recently as the Chief Executive Officer of HCA's Parkridge East Hospital in Chattanooga, TN. Prior to that he served as the Chief Operating Officer of Hendersonville Medical Center in Hendersonville, TN. Cook's first day at Capital Regional will be March 1.