The following hospital and health system CEO moves were reported by Becker's Hospital Review in the last week. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent.
1. Shoals Hospital in Muscle Shoals, Ala., hired Kidada Hawkins as CEO.
2. Edgefield (S.C.) County Hospital appointed Carlos Milanes CEO.
3. Peter Wozniak, CEO of Venice (Fla.) Regional Bayfront Health, resigned at the end of July. Jeff Reece was named interim CEO.
4. Beth Llewellyn took over as the first CEO of Lawrence, Kan.-based Health Care Access.
5. Mike Casdorph was named president and CEO of Highland-Clarksburg Hospital in Clarksburg, W. Va.
6. Cindy Nuesslein, CEO of University Medical Center New Orleans, will leave the hospital this month for a job with an engineering and design firm.
7. Jim Murphy was hired as interim CEO of Melissa Memorial Hospital in Holyoke, Colo.
8. Jeffrey A. Rivest, president and CEO of Baltimore-based University of Maryland Medical Center, will retire at the end of August 2015 after 11 years at the helm.
9. St. John's Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway, N.Y., hired Gerard "Jerry" Walsh as CEO.
10. El Segundo, Calif.-based Avanti Hospitals, which owns and operates Memorial Hospital of Gardena (Calif.), Community Hospital of Huntington Park (Calif.), Coast Plaza Hospital in Norwalk, Calif., and East Los Angeles Doctors Hospital, appointed Michael Rembis corporate CEO.
11. Bear Valley Community Healthcare District in Big Bear Lake, Calif., announced the resignation of Interim CEO Randy Simmons.
12. Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Neenah named Debbie Franckowiak, PhD, executive director.