Brouk
Scott-Fulton
Shapiro
Karchut
Smithson
PRESIDENTS/CEOS
Jonathan Brouk to president of Our Lady of the Lake Children's Health in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, from interim president. The facility is part of Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System.
Eric Young, chief operating officer of Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center, to interim president of Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center in Mechanicsville, Virginia, and Rappahannock General Hospital in Kilmarnock, Virginia.
He replaces Leigh Sewell, who has departed as president.
ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES
Veronica Scott-Fulton to chief nurse executive of Bon Secours Mercy Health.
Sheri Shapiro to CommonSpirit Health senior executive vice president and chief strategy officer.
Organizations within CHRISTUS Health have made these changes: Anna Gore to chief nursing officer of CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital — San Marcos in Texas; and David Karchut to vice president of mission integration at CHRISTUS
St. Michael Health System in Texarkana, Texas.
Tracey Smithson to chief nursing officer for St. Dominic Hospital of Jackson, Mississippi, part of Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System.
HONOR
The American Society of Business Publications Editors' ASBPE Educational Foundation has honored Health Progress, CHA's journal, with its Journalism That Matters Award. The award recognized lead writer Sally
J. Altman and the Before Ferguson Beyond Ferguson team for the third installment of a series on racial and health disparities. The American Society of Business Publications Editors first presented the award in 2009. It goes to journalists whose articles
have brought about change within their industries. Below, Health Progress Editor Betsy Taylor accepts the award from Paul J. Heney, the foundation's president.
ACQUISITION
On May 1, CommonSpirit Health acquired Steward Health Care's five Utah hospitals and affiliated outpatient facilities. The hospitals and clinics will be managed under CommonSpirit's Centura Health.
CommonSpirit said in a release that the acquisition marks the return of faith-based health care to the region. In 1875, the Sisters of the Holy Cross established the health care ministry that later would become Steward. CommonSpirit said "in a tribute
to their Catholic heritage, the hospitals and clinics have been renamed in honor of the Sisters of the Holy Cross."
The hospital name changes:
- Davis Hospital and Medical Center of Layton to Holy Cross Hospital — Davis.
- Jordan Valley Medical Center of West Jordan to Holy Cross Hospital — Jordan Valley.
- Jordan Valley Medical Center-West Valley Campus of West Valley City to Holy Cross Hospital — Jordan Valley West.
- Mountain Point Medical Center of Lehi to Holy Cross Hospital — Mountain Point.
- Salt Lake Regional Medical Center of Salt Lake City to Holy Cross Hospital — Salt Lake.
- Steward Medical Group, the physician group, to Holy Cross Medical Group.