Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health has named Scott Wooten CFO, beginning Jan. 15.

It's been a busy start to the new year for changes in CFO leadership at hospitals and health systems. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center named David Posch senior vice president for business consulting. 

Drew Dostal, president and regional market leader for Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Corewell Health, has had his oversight doubled to six hospitals. 

Aiken (S.C.) Regional Medical Center has tapped Cathy Sumner, MSN, RN to lead the system as its chief nursing officer, according to a Jan. 5 announcement.

Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health, which merged with Atrium Health in May 2023, has named Janice Walker, DHA, RN, as the chief nursing officer for its Southeast Region, according to a Jan. 5 announcement.

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health, a 46-hospital system, has made several key changes to its executive leadership team to kick off 2024.  

Glen Oaks Hospital, a behavioral health hospital in Greenville, Texas, has named Harry Lemming its next CEO. 

C.J. Stimson, MD, senior vice president of value transformation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's office of population health, has been appointed executive vice president for population health, effective Jan. 1.

Advocate Health Care has named Allison "Allie" Wyler president of the Central Chicagoland area and Park Ridge, Ill.-based Advocate Lutheran General Hospital. 

Penn State Health has named Don McKenna permanent president of Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pa. 

Melissa Emerson, BSN, RN, is the new chief operating officer at Boynton Beach, Fla.-based Bethesda Hospital. 

UChicago Medicine has appointed Kimyatta Washington vice president and chief administrative officer of cancer services for the health system, effective Feb. 1.

Kissimmee-based HCA Florida Poinciana Hospital appointed Cullen Brown CEO, effective Dec. 29. 

Oregon Health & Science University said it will search for a new CEO of its healthcare operations as OHSU and Legacy Health work through the due diligence phase of combining.

Boston-based Beth Israel Lahey Health has appointed Nic Nguyen, MD, chief medical officer and senior vice president of the system's primary care division.

Three board members have departed Memorial Hospital of Texas County in Guymon, Okla., and its CEO plans to retire at the end of March, according to a Jan. 4 LinkedIn post.

Victor Almeida, DO, has been selected to be the next chief medical officer at RWJBarnabas Health's Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus in Lakewood, N.J.

Jim Sheets has been appointed president of Intermountain Health healthcare operations in Colorado, Montana, Kansas, Wyoming, and New Mexico.

The following leadership moves made by women have been reported by or shared with Becker's this year: