A veteran hospital executive who helped redraw the state's health care landscape is preparing to step down. Kevin Tabb, the chief executive of Beth Israel Lahey Health, said Wednesday that he will leave his job next year, after more than 15 years in the post. Tabb said he made his decision because the hospital system is on stable financial footing with a clear plan for the future. Tabb arrived in Boston in 2011, after a career at Stanford's hospital system, to run a teaching hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He led the 2019 merger of that hospital and the former Lahey Clinic to create a new health system — now the state's second largest. It was intended to serve as a counterweight to the former Partners HealthCare, now known as the Mass General Brigham system. Tabb's tenure includes the COVID-19 pandemic, when hospital leaders, doctors and nurses had to navigate how to care for patients during an unprecedented crisis. They feared they would run out of protective face masks for staff and ventilators for keeping patients alive. Tabb, 62, said he hasn't decided what's next for him. 'I don't intend to go run another hospital,' he said. Beth Israel Lahey Health includes 14 hospitals and a workforce of 42,000 people.
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