HOSPITALS, SYSTEMS
Biggs Porter, CFO of Tenet Healthcare Corp., will resign to join Fluor Corp., an engineering and construction company, effective March 30. Trevor Fetter,
Tenet’s president and CEO, will assume the additional role of interim CFO, the Dallas-based company said in a news release. “We want to thank Biggs for his impressive contributions to Tenet’s financial performance over the past six years during critical and challenging times in our economy and industry,” Fetter, 52, said in the release. A Tenet spokesman said a search for a successor for Porter, 58, is under way. … Umass Memorial Health Care, Worcester, Mass., said President and CEO plans to
John O’brien retire next year. A succession committee will conduct a national search, the health system said in a news release. O’brien, 61, has served as president and CEO of the health system for nearly a decade. He is expected to step down in January. Last month, Umass Memorial Health Care announced that it would eliminate up to 900 positions and reduce expenses by $50 million in an effort to avoid ending the fiscal year with a loss. As part of the announcement, the health system said it plans to sell its lab testing business and its home health and hospice site in Worcester. …
Jeff Dorsey,
president of the Continental Division at HCA, Nashville, will retire at the end of May. A search for his successor is ongoing, according to a news release. Dorsey, 63, has led the Continental Division, which includes hospitals and surgery and outpatient centers in Colorado, Oklahoma and Kansas, since 1997. He joined HCA in 1981, serving in a number of administrative and executive roles before being named president and CEO of the Colorado division, including Healthone—what was then a newly formed 50/50 joint venture between HCA and the Colorado Health Foundation—in 1995. HCA took over full ownership of Healthone last year. … Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, named
Eileen Mccarthy senior VP for compliance, audit and risk. Mccarthy replaces
Dr. Leon Goldman,
who served as chief compliance officer until he retired in June. A spokesman for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center said in an e-mail that the position was upgraded to senior VP level “to reflect the growing attention paid to hospital financing by government agencies and others.” Mccarthy most recently was chief compliance officer for Partners Healthcare. She reports to
Dr. Kevin Tabb,
who took over as president and CEO of BIDMC in October. Her age was not provided. … Detroit Medical Center, a subsidiary of Vanguard Health Systems, Nashville, named president,
Joe Mullany effective April 2. Mullany steps into the hospital’s newly created No. 2 position. He will report to CEO who
Mike Duggan, previously held both the CEO and president posts, a spokeswoman said. Mullany has served since 2005 as president of Vanguard’s New England region. He was previously a VP at Essent Healthcare, Nashville, where he oversaw the company’s New England hospitals, and before that served as corporate VP and president of the Mississippi division of Health Management Associates, Naples, Fla. His age was not provided. … SSM Health Care-st. Louis announced the promotion of
Maggie Fowler,
57, as regional VP of nursing and chief nursing officer. Fowler replaces
Lynn Lenker, who moved on as chief nursing information officer for the company’s parent, SSM Health Care, also based in St. Louis. Fowler is the former VP for nursing operations at SSM Health CareSt. Louis and has spent 20 years in various executive administrative posts for the company, according to a news release. … will succeed
Lester Diamond Claude Harbarger
as president of St.