Keeping Up - October Print Edition

October 2024

Ashby

Blum

Erickson

Wagner

McGinn

Mishra

Sterling

Powers

Bowman

Koski

Garibaldi

Spencer

 

PRESIDENTS/CEOS

Organizations within CommonSpirit Health have made these changes:

  • Anthony Ashby to president of CHI Health Immanuel in Omaha, Nebraska, from interim president.
  • Kristen Blum to president of CHI Health Mercy — Council Bluffs in Iowa. Blum most recently led the virtual health services team of the facility.
  • Steven Foster to president and CEO of Mercy General Hospital in Sacramento, California. Most recently, Foster led St. Luke’s Health Sugar Land Hospital and Patients Medical Center in South Houston. Foster succeeds Dr. Tina Johnson, who was appointed Dignity Health Sacramento Market president earlier this year.

Hospital Sisters Health System and facilities within that system have made these changes:

  • Robert J. Erickson to HSHS Wisconsin Market president and CEO, with oversight of that market’s four hospitals. Since April, he had been president and CEO for HSHS St. Vincent Hospital and HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center in Green Bay, and now adds responsibility for two additional hospitals to that role. Erickson succeeds Brian Charlier, who retired.
  • John Wagner to HSHS Wisconsin Market chief operating officer, a new role for that market. He was president and CEO of the former HSHS Sacred Heart and St. Joseph's hospitals in Western Wisconsin.
ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES

CommonSpirit Health and one of its facilities have made these changes:

  • Dr. Thomas McGinn to CommonSpirit Health senior executive vice president and chief physician executive officer, a new position at the system.
  • Dr. Vimal Mishra to chief medical officer of Dignity Health Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Sacramento.

Hospital Sisters Health System of Springfield, Illinois, and organizations within that system have made these changes:

  • Jeff Sterling to HSHS system vice president of managed care.
  • Anthony Powers to chief administrative officer of HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital in Effingham and HSHS Good Shepherd Hospital in Shelbyville, both of Illinois. CAO is a new role at HSHS.
  • Andrew Bowman to chief administrative officer at HSHS St. Nicholas Hospital in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
  • Colleen Koski to chief administrative officer at HSHS St. Clare Memorial Hospital in Oconto Falls, Wisconsin.
  • Isabelle Garibaldi to chief nursing officer of HSHS Wisconsin market.

Samuel J. Spencer to senior vice president of operations for Saint Francis Healthcare System of Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

GRANT

CHRISTUS Children’s Hospital in San Antonio has received a $1 million gift from the Melissa and John Kauth Foundation. The facility will use the funds to establish the CHRISTUS Children’s Comprehensive Clinic, which will provide care to children with autism, epilepsy, and other conditions in a one-stop location. Located in the Multi-Assistance Center at Morgan’s Wonderland, the facility will house the division of pediatric neurology and neurosciences of CHRISTUS Children’s Hospital. Morgan’s Wonderland is a nonprofit theme park in San Antonio that bills itself as “the first theme park where everyone can play,” including people with disabilities. John Kauth co-founded Intercontinental Wealth Advisors.

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