William J. Schuler, President and CEO of Portsmouth Regional Hospital, has announced his plan to retire on June 30. Schuler has been with the hospital for 25 years and an administrator with HCA for 30 years.
The Schneider Regional Medical Center board chose an executive search firm to help select a new chief executive officer and adopted a Fiscal Year 2009 budget. The board's executive search committee recommended Tyler & Company, an Atlanta-based executive search firm that specializes in the healthcare industry, to help them select the right candidate for the Schneider Regional CEO position. The hospital has been without a permanent CEO since August, when the territorial hospital board placed CEO Amos Carty Jr. on paid administrative leave and named Elizabeth Harris, who had been vice president of quality and performance improvement, interim CEO. On Sept. 5, the territorial board fired Carty.
The New Jersey Hospital Association has named Ronald C. Rak, CEO/president of Saint Peter's Healthcare System, as a member of its 2009 Board of Trustees. Comprised of 107 member hospitals, the Princeton-based NJHA is a statewide advocate for its members and the patients they serve. The installation of the 2009 NJHA board was held during the organization's 90th annual meeting. Rak was named president and chief executive officer of Saint Peter's Healthcare System in October 2007.
Harris M. Nagler, MD, chairman of the Sol and Margaret Berger Department of Urology at Beth Israel Medical Center since 1989, has been appointed interim president of the Medical Center. Nagler succeeds David J. Shulkin, MD, who is stepping down from the post, and a transition in leadership is immediately under way.
Fabrizio Michelassi, MD, the Lewis Atterbury Stimson professor and chairman of the Department of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College and surgeon-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, is the newly elected president of the Society of Surgical Oncology.
Dogs and cats cause more than 86,000 falls requiring emergency room care each year, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That translates into about 240 people who are treated for injuries caused by pets every single day in the United States, the study found.