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Date Posted: Jan 5, 2021
Versailles, KY (January 5, 2021) – Bluegrass Community Hospital today announced that David Steitz has been named its new chief executive officer (CEO). Steitz, a healthcare veteran with more than three decades of hospital leadership experience, begins his new role January 11, 2021.Full story
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Date Posted: Nov 17, 2020
ROARING SPRING, PA (November 17, 2020) – Conemaugh Nason Medical Center today announced that it has been named a LifePoint Health National Quality Leader. This designation recognizes hospitals within the LifePoint Health system that have enrolled in the LifePoint National Quality Program and succeeded in transforming their culture of safety and achieving high standards of quality care, performance improvement and patient engagement.Full story
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Date Posted: Nov 12, 2020
Wytheville, VA (November 12, 2020) – Wythe County Community Hospital announced today that Vicki Parks has been named chief executive officer (CEO), effective December 14, 2020. A veteran healthcare leader, Parks comes to Wythe County Community Hospital from Wilson Medical Center, a Duke LifePoint Hospital, in Wilson, N.C., where she has served as chief operating officer (COO) since May 2019. Parks replaces Joe Wilkins.Full story
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Date Posted: Nov 10, 2020
Brentwood, Tennessee (November 6, 2020) – LifePoint Health, a leading healthcare company dedicated to Making Communities Healthier®, has named Karl Ngoye from Memorial Medical Center (MMC) in Las Cruces, New Mexico, the recipient of its 2020 companywide Mercy Award. Ngoye, who serves as a registered nurse in MMC’s intensive care unit (ICU), was honored for the compassionate care he provides to patients and for his extensive volunteer work with vulnerable and at-risk youth.Full story
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Date Posted: Nov 6, 2020
ENNIS, TEXAS (Nov. 6, 2020) – Ennis Regional Medical Center (ERMC) today announced that it has been named a LifePoint Health National Quality Leader. This designation recognizes hospitals within the LifePoint Health system that have enrolled in the LifePoint National Quality Program and succeeded in transforming their culture of safety and achieving high standards of quality care, performance improvement and patient engagement.Full story
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Date Posted: Oct 20, 2020
Dodge City, Kansas (October 20, 2020) – Western Plains Medical Complex (WPMC) announced today that Rick Wallace has been named chief executive officer (CEO), effective November 2. A 30-year healthcare veteran, Wallace replaces Jerry Dooley, who has been serving as interim CEO since June.Full story
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Date Posted: Sep 30, 2020
Clark Regional Medical Center (CRMC) recently announced a $4.6 million expansion of the hospital for a cardiac catheterization (cath) lab. The cardiac cath lab and launching of an interventional cardiology program at CRMC means greater access to potentially life-saving heart care in Clark County. It is estimated to be completed in the fall of 2020.Full story
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Date Posted: Sep 21, 2020
Florence, AL – On September 18, North Alabama Medical Center (NAMC), part of LifePoint Health, ceremoniously broke ground on a new cancer center that will be added to its main campus in Florence, Alabama. A small group of leaders from the hospital and LifePoint gathered to celebrate the first dig marking the beginning of construction for Northwest Alabama Cancer Care, LLC. The facility is made possible by a $13.6 million investment from LifePoint Health.Full story
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Date Posted: Sep 15, 2020
Haywood Regional Medical Center (HRMC), a Duke LifePoint Hospital, announced that Greg Caples has been named its new chief executive officer (CEO), effective September 30. Caples comes to HRMC from Coliseum Northside Hospital in Macon, Ga., where he has served as CEO for three years. He replaces former CEO Rod Harkleroad who left earlier this year to pursue a leadership opportunity at another Duke LifePoint facility.Full story
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Date Posted: Aug 31, 2020
Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital, in Somerset, Kentucky, has received the Get with the Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association.Full story
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Date Posted: Aug 28, 2020
SageWest Health Care, in Lander and Riverton Wyoming, has received an A+ overall grade in recent hospital rankings from the Lown Institute - the only Wyoming hospital to achieve that ranking in the institute's rankings, whose determinants include patient outcomes, care measurements and civic leadership.Full story
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Date Posted: May 22, 2020
Clark Regional Medical Center (CRMC) today announced that veteran administrator Matt Smith has accepted the position of chief executive officer (CEO). Smith has been serving as CEO of Bourbon Community Hospital in Paris, Kentucky since 2017 and formerly held the post of chief operating officer (COO) at CRMC.Full story
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Date Posted: May 14, 2020
Spring View Hospital today announced that veteran hospital administrator Reba Celsor will join its team as chief executive officer (CEO), effective June 8, 2020. Celsor comes to Spring View from West Tennessee Healthcare Dyersburg Hospital, where she has served as CEO since 2015. She replaces Jerry Dooley, who has served as interim CEO of Spring View since February.Full story
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Date Posted: May 8, 2020
Frye Regional Medical Center (FRMC), a Duke LifePoint Hospital, announced that Rod Harkleroad, RN has been named its new chief executive officer (CEO), effective June 8. Harkleroad joins FRMC from Haywood Regional Medical Center (HRMC), a Duke LifePoint facility in Clyde, North Carolina, where he has served as CEO since 2016. He will replace Chris Fensterle, who has been serving as interim CEO, in addition to COO, at FRMC since December 2019.Full story
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Date Posted: May 8, 2020
National Park Medical Center (NPMC) today announced that Scott Smith will join its team as chief executive officer (CEO), effective May 25. In addition to this position, Smith will also assume the expanded leadership role of market CEO, in which he will have oversight over both NPMC and Saline Memorial Hospital (SMH), another LifePoint Health facility located in Benton, Arkansas. SMH CEO Michael Stewart will continue to manage the daily operations of that facility and its affiliated assets, and report directly to Smith.Full story
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Date Posted: May 1, 2020
Parkview Regional Hospital (PRH) and Ennis Regional Medical Center (ERMC) today announced that Robert Rupp has been appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of both facilities, effective May 4, 2020. He replaces Bob Honeycutt who has transitioned to another hospital within the LifePoint Health network.Full story
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Date Posted: Apr 23, 2020
Willamette Valley Medical Center (WVMC) announced that Lori Bergen has been named its new chief executive officer (CEO). Bergen comes to WVMC from Providence Newberg Medical Center (PNMC) in Providence, Oregon, where she has served as CEO since 2012. She will replace interim CEO, Mark Nichols, effective May 4, 2020.Full story
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Date Posted: Apr 23, 2020
Ashley Regional Medical Center (ARMC) announced that Wesley Taylor has been named its new chief executive officer (CEO). Taylor comes to ARMC from Havasu Regional Medical Center (HRMC) in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where he has served as chief operating officer (COO) since 2017. His first day at ARMC will be April 30, 2020.Full story
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Date Posted: Mar 31, 2020
Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center today announced that Robert “Bob” Honeycutt will join its team as chief executive officer (CEO), effective April 27. Honeycutt joins Saint Mary’s from Ennis Regional Medical Center (ERMC) in Ennis, Texas, and Parkview Regional Hospital (PRH) in Mexia, Texas, where he has served as CEO since 2017. He will replace Scott Bailey, chief operating officer (COO) of Saint Mary’s, who has been serving as interim CEO.Full story
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Date Posted: Feb 21, 2020
Fauquier Health hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house on Thursday, February 20 to celebrate the opening of the hospital’s new Center for Cancer Care. Hospital leaders, physicians, community leaders and government officials attended the ribbon-cutting event to tour the new freestanding 25,640-square-foot center and learn about its new equipment and expanded services.Full story