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PRESIDENTS/CEOS
Bob Sutton will step down as Avera president and chief executive Sept. 30. According to a press release, his departure will be due to a recently diagnosed serious medical condition that requires an intensive treatment regimen. Avera is retaining an executive search firm to conduct a national search in the coming months for the next Avera leader.

Tim Prestridge to president of Cincinnati-based Mercy Health — Clermont Hospital, from chief financial officer of Mercy Health — Anderson Hospital. Mercy Health is part of Bon Secours Mercy Health.

Dr. Guy Hudson stepped down as chief executive of Providence's north division on April 1 and will depart as president and chief executive of Swedish Health Services on Sept. 30. Dr. Elizabeth Wako will continue to oversee Providence Swedish operations in King County as the chief executive for the Central Puget Sound service area, while Kristy Carrington will continue as chief executive for the North Puget Sound service area and maintain responsibility for Providence Swedish operations in Snohomish County and Providence Regional Medical Center Everett.

ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES
Dr. Brian Chesebro is the first medical director of environmental stewardship for Providence St. Joseph Health.

Bon Secours Mercy Health organizations have made these changes: Shiley Harper to chief financial officer of Mercy Health — Clermont Hospital in Cincinnati. Danny Warren to chief financial officer of Mercy Health — Kentucky.

Dr. Robert McMurtrie to chief medical officer for Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital of Darby, Pennsylvania, and Saint Francis Hospital of Wilmington, Delaware. The facilities are part of Trinity Health.

Amy Leggio to executive director of the PeaceHealth St. John Foundation of Longview, Washington.

Maureen Rhodes to executive director of the foundation for St. Mary's Healthcare of Amsterdam, New York.

ANNIVERSARY
CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital, Lake Charles, Louisiana, 115 years.

CAMPUS EXPANSIONS
St. Luke's Health of Houston has opened the O'Quinn Medical Tower at McNair, the latest addition to the Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center McNair Campus. The 12-story, 420,000-square-foot facility includes an ambulatory surgery center with 12 additional operating rooms and 10 endoscopy suites. The tower expands the Dan L Duncan
Comprehensive Cancer Center by tripling its size with an additional 80-bay infusion center, more than 70 exam rooms, and imaging and radiation treatment equipment.

CommonSpirit Health, St. Luke's parent, invested $426 million in the expansion.

Ascension Seton of Austin, Texas, broke ground in March at its Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin campus on a
$320 million tower. Women's services will be moved from the main medical center to the new tower. The construction will add 28 inpatient rooms to the campus and the facility will have the capacity for 7,500 deliveries annually. The facility will house private neonatal intensive care unit rooms, cesarean section suites, clinical space where minimally invasive gynecologic surgeries can be performed, expanded antepartum space, a dedicated obstetrical and gynecological emergency department and an education center.

GRANTS AND GIFTS
Holy Rosary Healthcare of Miles City, Montana, part of Intermountain Health, has received a $6 million grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. Holy Rosary will use the grant to build a cancer center. The center will provide radiation and medical and surgical oncology services. The center will be built on the Holy Rosary campus in Miles City. Construction began this spring, and the $17 million project is expected to be completed in late 2024.

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has granted $682,498 to Avera and Access Health to purchase ultrasound machines as part of a $26.4 million ultrasound initiative in Minnesota. Seven new ultrasound machines will be purchased for three Avera hospitals and three Access Health clinics.