The following 13 hospital and health system mergers, acquisitions, affiliations or restructurings occurred in 2014 and affected CEOs. The list begins with the deals most recently covered by Becker's Hospital Review.
1. Montefiore to appoint White Plains Hospital executives after merger. The proposed affiliation between Montefiore Health System in Bronx, N.Y. and White Plains (N.Y.) Hospital was approved on Sept. 19, 2014. Under the agreement, Montefiore will be the active parent and co-operator of WPH, and will also approve the appointment of WPH management-level employees, including the CEO, president, CMO and CFO.
2. Beaumont, Botsford and Oakwood merger creates new executive team. The Michigan health system resulting from the merger of Beaumont Health System, Botsford Health Care and Oakwood Healthcare has a new executive team. Gene Michalski, the former president and CEO of Royal Oak-based Beaumont Health System, is heading the new $3.8 billion system as CEO. Brian Connolly, former CEO of Dearborn-based Oakwood Healthcare, will serve as president of network development and future initiatives. Paul LaCasse, DO, former CEO of Farmington Hills-based Botsford Health Care, will serve as chair of the clinical leadership council.
3. Mark Neaman to step down two years after Advocate Health Care and NorthShore University Health System merger. Downers Grove-based Advocate Health Care and Evanston-based NorthShore University Health System announced plans to combine this month. The merger would result in a 16-hospital health system, the largest in Illinois. For the first two years of the merger, Advocate President and CEO Jim Skogsbergh and NorthShore President and CEO Mark Neaman will serve as "co-CEOs," but Mr. Neaman will step down and leave Mr. Skogsbergh as the primary CEO after the given time period.
4. CEO of United Memorial Medical Center to step down after affiliation. Mark Schoell will step down from his post as CEO of United Memorial Medical Center in Batavia, N.Y. at the end of the year in response to the finalization of the hospital's affiliation with Rochester (N.Y.) Regional Health System. Mr. Schoell has spent 10 years with the hospital with the majority of the time spent as CEO. As of Dec. 31, Mr. Schoell will transition into a "system integration and strategic planning role" while CEO duties are maintained by RRHS.
5. Cadence Health President and CEO changed to regional president after merger with Northwestern Memorial HealthCare. Northwestern Memorial HealthCare in Chicago and Cadence Health in Winfield, Ill., completed their merger Sept. 1 after a proposal was brought up in March. The agreement expands Northwestern Medicine to include four hospitals, including Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Northwestern Lake Forest (Ill.) Hospital, Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield and Delnor Hospital in Geneva, Ill. Northwestern president and CEO Dean Harrison was named CEO of the combined system, and Mike Vivoda, former president and CEO of Cadence Health, became the regional president.
6. UW Hospital and Clinics CEO to retire and position eliminated. Donna Katen-Bahensky, president and CEO of Madison, Wis.-based UW Hospital and Clinics, retired Sept. 1 and her position was then eliminated. The elimination of her position is part of an ongoing effort to bring UW Hospital and Clinics and its physician group, UW Medical Foundation, into the single integrated organization of UW Health. In April, UW Health approved a merger with SwedishAmerican Health System in Rockford, Ill., but executive positions were not affected by that transaction.
7. CEOs of Rochester General Hospital System and Unity Health System to step down after merger. A merger between Rochester (N.Y.) General Hospital System and Unity Health System, also based in Rochester, was finalized in July. The new health system is now called Rochester Regional Health System. Under the agreement, Unity CEO Warren Hern and Rochester General CEO Mark Clement will both step down after the new system's board names a CEO.
8. Regional collaboration between three Maryland hospitals names new CEO. Trivergent Health Alliance is the newly launched regional collaboration between Frederick (Md.) Regional Health System, Meritus Health System in Hagerstown and Western Maryland Health System in Cumberland. It named Raymond A. Grahe, former senior vice president and CFO of Meritus, as CEO. The vice president of finance at Meritus became interim CFO after Mr. Grahe's transition.
9. Somerset Medical Center CEO to step down before merger with RWJ University Hospital. Ken Bateman, former president and CEO of Somerset Medical Center in Somerville, N.J., voluntarily stepped down along with seven other executive members after the hospital finalized its merger with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J. The merger took effect June 1, and Somerset Medical Center was renamed Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset. Vincent Joseph, executive vice president of RWJ University Hospital, was named interim site administrator upon Mr. Bateman's exit.
10. Kenneth Belcher named CEO of two hospitals after joint venture between Prospect Medical Holdings and CharterCare Health Partners. The joint venture between Providence, R.I.-based CharterCare Partners and Santa Ana, Calif.-based Prospect Medical Holdings was approved in May by the Rhode Island Department of Health and Attorney General Peter Kilmartin. Under the deal, PMH owns 85 percent of the entity and CharterCare owns the remaining 15 percent. CharterCare CEO Kenneth Belcher was named CEO of the organization and PMH CEO Samuel Lee adopted the responsibility to oversee the day-to-day operations of the entire joint venture. But in July, Mr. Belcher announced his retirement, which took effect in August. Thomas M. Reardon has since been named CharterCare's CEO.
11. Faxton St. Luke's president and CEO named president and CEO of new Mohawk Valley Health System. Utica, N.Y.-based Faxton St. Luke's Healthcare and St. Elizabeth Medical Center, also in Utica, entered into an affiliation and formed Mohawk Valley Health System in March. Faxton St. Luke's President and CEO Scott Perra became president and CEO of the newly formed system.
12. Ochsner North Shore Region CEO also serves as CEO of Hancock Medical Center as part of two-year management agreement. Ochsner Health System in New Orleans was approved to manage operations of Hancock Medical Center in Bay St. Louis, Miss., for a two-year period beginning in February. Polly Davenport, CEO of Ochsner North Shore Region in Slidell, La., was made interim CEO of Hancock Medical Center in February, and in early April, Ochsner Health System extended the position to Thomas Steiner. Mr. Steiner was previously the administrative representative supporting Burke Medical Center in Waynesboro, Ga., and has held prior executive roles in various health systems.
13. President of Goodall Hospital in Maine becomes system COO after merger. Southern Maine Medical Center in Biddeford and Goodall Hospital in Sanford, Maine, completed a merger in early January and became Biddeford-based Southern Maine Health Care. Ed McGeachey was named president and CEO of SMHC. Goodall Hospital became Southern Maine Health Care, Sanford Campus, and former Goodall President and CEO Patsy April became the SMHC COO.