Columbus, N.C.-based St. Luke's Hospital tapped Michelle Fortune to serve as CEO, effective March 4 according to GoUpstate.com.
Four takeaways:
1. Ms. Fortune comes to St. Luke's from Atrium Health in Charlotte, N.C., where she served as metro division president of perioperative services and anesthesia.
2. She has prior experience managing surgical hospitals and ASCs in North Carolina, Texas and Louisiana.
3. She has 25-plus years of healthcare experience.
4. Ms. Fortune succeeds interim CEO David Pope, who is leaving to work at Scotland Health Care System in Laurinburg, N.C.