Chutes & Ladders—Tenet shares CEO succession plan; Hartford HealthCare names Cleveland Clinic exec as CFO

Welcome to this week’s Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings all through the business. Please submit the excellent news—or the unhealthy—out of your store, and we’ll characteristic it right here on the finish of every week.

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Tenet Healthcare

Saum Sutaria, M.D., has been named as the following CEO of Tenet Healthcare efficient Sept. 1. He’ll proceed to report back to Ron Rittenmeyer, the present CEO, who will function government chairman of the corporate and board by way of 2022.

Sutaria got here to Tenet in 2019 as chief working officer and added the president position later that very same 12 months. Previous to becoming a member of the system, he had a management position in McKinsey’s healthcare and personal fairness practices, and he is additionally held an affiliate medical school place on the College of California, San Diego.

Rittenmeyer served as a director on Tenet’s board since 2010 and was the earlier president and CEO of IT providers firm Digital Information Techniques. He was appointed in 2017 after former CEO Trevor Fetter stepped down.

Within the announcement, Rittenmeyer and former Senator Bob Kerrey, lead director of Tenet’s board, stated the appointment is in keeping with a succession plan in improvement by the outgoing CEO since he first took up the job.

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Hartford HealthCare

Chibueze Okey Agba is subsequent in line to turn out to be Hartford HealthCare’s new government vp and chief monetary officer.

Agba has labored underneath the Cleveland Clinic banner since 2016, initially at its built-in system in Abu Dhabi and later in its Florida market.

He has additionally held the chief monetary officer and treasurer roles at Tufts Medical Middle and the Floating Hospital for Youngsters in addition to different government roles at Harvard Medical College, Brigham and Ladies’s Faulkner Hospital and Companions Healthcare System.

Agba will report back to Jeffrey A. Flaks, president and CEO of the seven-hospital Connecticut system. He’ll take over for Charlie Johnson, who is ready to retire Sept. 27.

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Guthrie

Debra Raupers and Terri Couts are the most recent additions to Pennsylvania- and New York-based Guthrie’s management workforce.

Raupers is returning to the built-in well being system to tackle the title of government vp and chief nursing officer.

In her earlier tenure, Guthrie famous that she had helped the Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital safe a Magnet accreditation for nursing excellence and helped lead development of its Guthrie Corning Hospital. Outdoors of Guthrie, she lately held a management place inside Cayuga Well being System.

Couts, in the meantime, has been promoted to Guthrie’s senior vp and chief info officer place.

Beforehand its vp answerable for the Epic program, medical programs and integration, Couts has over a decade of EHR implementation expertise and helped the system choose up an Epic STARS 10 standing.

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> Mountain Well being Community has introduced Kevin W. Yingling, M.D., because the CEO for Mountain Well being Community and president of Cabell Huntington Hospital and St. Mary’s Medical Middle.

> UF Well being Jacksonville has known as Russell E. Armistead out of retirement to move the hospital following the surprising passing of CEO Leon Haley Jr., M.D., final month.

> Blue Cross Blue Protect of Massachusetts is reportedly including Manny Lopes as government vp of public markets and authorities relations.

> CareAlign, maker of a job administration system for suppliers, has picked up James Inexperienced as its new chief working officer.

> Nym Well being, an autonomous medical coding know-how supplier, has grabbed Melisa Tucker as its senior vp and head of product.

> Nuvo Group, which provides a distant being pregnant monitoring platform, unveiled Kelly Londy as its new CEO. Oren Oz, the founder and outgoing CEO, will keep on as chief innovation officer and board member.

> Boston Medical Middle named Justin Williams its vp and chief improvement officer.

> Hydrogen Well being, a major care three way partnership between Okay Well being, Anthem and Blackstone Development, has introduced on Brad Kirkpatrick as chief business officer.

> Woebot Well being, which developed a psychological well being chatbot remedy device, named Kim Goodwin as vp of person expertise.

> Softheon, a software program firm serving well being plans, added Robert Mosquera, previously senior director of IT for Mount Sinai, as chief info officer.

> NovaSignal, a blood movement measurement gadget maker, appointed UCSF Well being President and CEO Mark Laret to its board.