Dignity Health-Community Hospital of San Bernardino (Calif.) hired Andrew Fragen, MD, to serve as CMO, effective Dec. 11.
Here are four takeaways:
1. Dr. Fragen most recently served as chief of staff at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, Calif.
2. He also served as chairman of the surgery department at Desert Regional.
3. He played a key role in creating residency teaching programs in family practice with UCR Health in Riverside, Calif., and in internal medicine and neurology with Western University in Pomona, Calif.
4. He completed his general surgery residency at the University of Missouri in Kansas City.