Coots
Weil
Weaver
Lofton
PRESIDENTs/CEOs
St. Louis-based Ascension has made these executive changes: Travis Andersen to president of the Ascension Wisconsin south region, from president and chief executive of Columbia St. Mary's in Milwaukee; and Debra Standridge to president of the Ascension Wisconsin north region, from president of Glendale, Wis.-based Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare's north market. Vince Caponi to president and chief executive of St. Vincent's Health Services of Bridgeport, Conn. He most recently was interim Wisconsin ministry market executive for Ascension. Caponi replaces Dr. Stuart Marcus, who is considering other opportunities within Ascension, according to information from Ascension. Mike Schroyer to regional president of the northeast region of Indianapolis-based St. Vincent, from interim president.
Dr. Norvell V. Coots to president and chief executive of Holy Cross Health, Silver Spring, Md., effective Aug. 1. He is a retired brigadier general and former commanding general and chief executive of Regional Health Command Europe, and command surgeon of U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army. He succeeds Kevin J. Sexton, who retired.
Pamela Lindemoen to president of Dignity Health St. Mary's Medical Center, San Francisco, effective Sept. 12. She was vice president of hospital operations for Kaiser Permanente's Northern California region.
ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES
Dr. Robert J. Weil to senior vice president and chief medical officer for Englewood, Colo.-based Catholic Health Initiatives.
Ascension has made these administrative changes: John Halstead to chief mission integration officer of Ascension's Gulf Coast ministry market. Sean Mills to chief financial officer of Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital, Binghamton, N.Y.
Catherine Weaver to senior vice president, mission integration of Mercy Health System of Conshohocken, Pa.
ANNIVERSARIES
PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center University District, Eugene, Ore., 80 years.
SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital of St. Louis, 60 years.
HONOR
Kevin E. Lofton, chief executive of Catholic Health Initiatives, received an honorary doctor of humanities in medicine degree May 31 from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. The degree is awarded to people who have provided exceptional support or service, either directly or indirectly, to Baylor College of Medicine or to academic medicine as a whole.