A little less than two months after Barstow Community Hospital's former CEO Michael Stewart left for another position in Texas, a new CEO will be starting at the hospital on Monday. Sean Fowler, who was formerly the COO for Western Medical Center in Santa Ana, will be starting in his new role as BCH CEO today. Fowler has almost 20 years of experience in hospital administration in facilities in California, Texas and Louisiana, according to a release from BCH.
Bruce Holstien, new CEO/president of Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System, spent Wednesday touring the hospital and meeting staff members. His tour began just a day after the hospital's board of directors unanimously voted to appoint him president and CEO. Beginning Aug. 1, Holstien, 47, will stand at the helm of one of Spartanburg County's largest employers. He replaces Ingo Angermeier, who stepped down in April. In 2007, Holstien became president/CEO of CHRISTUS Spohn, a faith-based, nonprofit health system, a member of CHRISTUS Health. When he took over, the system was operating with a $30 million loss. The outfit now has net revenues totaling $650 million.
A Missouri hospital administrator who began his health career as a clinical psychologist will replace Michael Means as the president and CEO of Health First. Health First's Board of Directors picked Steven P. Johnson, 56, to take over from Means, who founded Health First in 1995 and has been its only president/CEO. Means is retiring at the end of the year. Johnson is the president of hospital operations for SSM Health Care-St. Louis, part of the Catholic, not-for-profit health care system SSM Health Care.
A new leader will take over Sutter Medical Center Sacramento in September in a move that paves the way for CEO Tom Gagen's retirement in early 2012. Carrie Owen Plietz was named CEO of Sutter Medical Center effective Sept. 1. She will lead Sutter General and Sutter Memorial Hospital, the medical group's two acute-care facilities, along with the Sutter Center for Psychiatry and its Sutter Oaks Midtown skilled nursing facility.
WellSpan Health has appointed Jane E. Hyde, a Wisconsin health care executive with more than 35 years of experience, as a senior vice president for the health system and president of Gettysburg Hospital. Hyde, who will officially join Central Pennsylvania's largest healthcare organization in September, was selected through a national search process. She succeeds Kevin H. Mosser, MD, who became WellSpan's executive vice president/COO in January. Since 2000, Hyde has served Agnesian HealthCare in Fond du Lac, WI, an integrated healthcare organization. Most recently, Hyde held the position of senior vice president of strategic development and community affairs.
Beverly B. Wallace will retire at year-end as president of Parallon Business Solutions, the wholly owned subsidiary of HCA Holdings that was formally launched two months ago. The 28-year HCA veteran who turned age 60 in January had led the group that created Parallon to offer business services including revenue cycle and supply chain management, staffing, and group purchasing to other hospitals. Before that, Wallace was president of HCA's Shared Services Group. In a regulatory filing, Nashville-based HCA said that it would select a successor to Wallace in due course.