This
roundup
is
published
monthly.
It
is
meant
to
highlight
some
of
healthcare’s
recent
hiring
news
and
is
not
intended
to
be
comprehensive.
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you
have
news
about
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executive
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Hires
CVS
Health
welcomed
Jeffrey
Fernandez
as
senior
vice
president
of
Medicare
at
Aetna.
He
is
joining
the
organization
from
Ochsner
Health,
where
he
served
as
senior
vice
president
of
population
health
and
CEO
of
Ochsner
Health
Plan.
Before
Ochsner,
he
spent
16
years
at
Humana,
serving
most
recently
as
senior
vice
president
of
its
Medicare
West
segment.
Digital
health
startup
Drive
Health
hired
James
Stringham
as
chief
strategy
officer.
He
is
coming
to
the
organization
from
Banner
Health
Plans,
where
he
served
as
CEO.
Before
that,
he
spent
more
than
a
decade
in
various
leadership
roles
at
Magellan
Health.
HCA
Healthcare
appointed
Yauheni
“Owen”
Solad
as
system
vice
president
of
clinical
artificial
intelligence.
Previously,
he
served
as
vice
president
of
innovation
at
UC
Davis
Health.
Healthcare
software
company
symplr
welcomed
Theresa
Meadows
as
its
new
CIO
in
residence.
She
joins
the
company
from
Cook
Children’s
Health
Care
System
in
Texas,
where
she
serves
as
CIO.
Women’s
telehealth
company
Wisp
hired
Jennifer
Peña
as
chief
medical
officer.
In
the
past,
served
as
medical
director
for
Oscar
Health
and
chief
medical
officer
for
Nurx,
K
Health
and
Vault
Health.
Promotions
Cone
Health
appointed
Preston
Hammock
to
the
newly
created
role
of
senior
vice
president
of
business
and
partnership
development.
He
joined
the
health
system
in
2013
when
Cone
acquired
Alamance
Regional
Medical
Center
—
he
was
serving
as
its
president
at
the
time.
Cardiac
remote
monitoring
company
PaceMate
named
JR
Finkelmeier
as
its
new
CEO.
He
joined
PaceMate
last
year
as
its
chief
commercial
officer.
Before
that,
he
spent
more
than
a
decade
at
medical
device
company
BioTelemetry,
which
was
acquired
by
Philips
in
2021.
Tenet
Healthcare
promoted
Lisa
Foo
to
the
COO
role.
She
joined
the
health
system
in
2019
as
its
chief
commercial
and
strategy
officer.
In
the
past,
she
held
various
leadership
positions
at
McKinsey
&
Company.
The
University
of
Miami
Health
System
named
Dipen
Parekh
as
its
new
CEO.
He
first
began
working
at
the
health
system
in
2012
as
chair
of
the
urology
department.
Exits
Ascension
CEO
Joseph
Impicciche
announced
that
he
will
retire
at
the
end
of
the
year.
He
joined
the
health
system
more
than
20
years
ago
as
senior
vice
president
of
legal
services
and
general
counsel.
Ascension’s
current
president,
Eduardo
Conrado,
will
step
into
the
CEO
role
on
January
1.
CommonSpirit
Health
CFO
Daniel
Morissette
will
retire
on
October
31,
and
the
health
system
has
begun
a
search
for
his
successor.
He
has
served
as
CommonSpirit’s
CFO
since
2019,
when
Catholic
Health
Initiatives
(CHI)
and
Dignity
Health
merged
to
create
the
organization.
He
joined
Dignity
in
2016
as
CFO.
Lovelace
Health
System
CEO
Troy
Greer
resigned
from
his
position
after
two
years
in
the
role
and
at
the
health
system.
Michael
Kueker,
previously
the
CEO
of
Lovelace
Medical
Group,
has
assumed
the
role
of
interim
CEO.
Notably,
this
is
the
Lovelace’s
fourth
announcement
of
a
CEO
change
in
just
three
years.
Optum
Health
CEO
Amar
Desai
left
his
role
after
two
years,
having
now
become
president
of
Optum’s
integrated
care
unit,
as
well
as
vice
chair
of
Optum
Health.
Optum
CEO
Patrick
Conway
has
taken
over
as
the
leader
of
Optum
Health.
Prior
to
Optum
Health,
Desai
was
president
of
healthcare
delivery
at
CVS
Health.
Layoffs
Prime
Healthcare
is
laying
off
more
than
100
roles
across
the
eight
Illinois
hospitals
that
it
acquired
from
Ascension
earlier
this
year.
The
health
system
said
these
positions
are
being
eliminated
because
they
are
duplicative
or
incongruent
with
Prime’s
care
model.
Providence
cut
about
600
jobs
as
part
of
a
restructuring
brought
on
by
declining
reimbursement
rates
and
rising
expenses.These
layoffs,
which
impact
less
than
1%
of
the
health
system’s
overall
workforce,
are
mainly
in
nonclinical,
administrative
departments.
UC
San
Diego
Health
laid
off
about
230
employees
as
a
result
of
financial
challenges.
The
job
cuts,
which
affected
about
1.5%
of
the
health
system’s
total
workforce,
included
some
clinical
positions.
Financial
hardships
drove
UCSF
Health
to
eliminate
200
positions,
which
is
about
1%
of
the
health
system’s
workforce.
About
a
quarter
of
the
employees
who
were
laid
off
worked
part
time,
and
about
half
of
the
impacted
full-time
employees
worked
in
management
roles.
Vanderbilt
University
Medical
Center
cut
about
650
employees,
which
is
less
than
2%
of
the
health
system’s
workforce.
Impacted
employees
are
mainly
in
research,
administrative
and
other
support
roles.
Vanderbilt
said
the
layoffs
are
due
mainly
to
medical
research
funding
cuts
and
expected
reductions
in
Medicaid
payments.
Virginia
Mason
Franciscan
Health
is
laying
off
116
workers
in
the
virtual
care
services
division
in
an
effort
to
become
more
financially
stable.