ON THE MOVE ...
Sept. 30, while the other moves will take effect Oct. 1. … was Jeanna Barnard promoted to CEO of Bayshore Medical Center, Pasadena, Texas, where she currently serves as COO. Barnard, 40, replaces Jeff Holland, 60, who retired May 31, according to a news release from HCA’S Gulf Coast Division, parent to the hospital. Barnard has been with HCA’S Gulf Coast Division since 1997. Last month, was named CFO of HCA’S Gulf Coast Jeffery Sliwinski Division. … left her position as CEO of Santa Linda Smith Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, Calif., and was replaced on an interim basis by the public Trudy Johnson, hospital’s chief nursing officer, according to hospital spokeswoman Joy Alexiou. Alexiou and a spokeswoman for the county declined to comment when asked to confirm a report in the Silicon Valley/san Jose Business Journal that said Smith was let go by the hospital. Smith had joined the hospital Jan. 31, 2011, Alexiou said. Details on how Smith would be replaced were not immediately available. Their ages were not available.
INSURERS
Craig Drablos, CEO of Humana’s Southeast Region Employer Group, was named president of Humana Cares, the insurer’s national complex and chronic-care management division in St. Petersburg, Fla. Drablos, 53, began the new role June 1. He succeeds who left the company Jean Bisio, in May after four years. A spokesman for Humana could not provide details about Bisio’s departure. Previously, Drablos was based in Tampa, where he led the company’s employer group operations in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Tennessee. In his new role, Drablos will oversee a division that serves more than 200,000 Humana members nationwide and provides integrated-care management in 32 states and by telephone in all 50 states. … Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota announced a new executive medical director structure with two physician leadership positions that together will oversee medical policies, credentialing, provider relations and quality improvement programs. The organization named executive medical Dr. Paul Karazija director for commercial and government programs and Dr. Lawrence Lee executive director for provider relations and quality. The new structure replaces the previous position of chief medical officer and is intended to encourage more collaboration among the company’s various groups, according to a Minnesota Blues news release. Karazija, an internist, started at Eagan, Minn.-based Blue Cross in May 2011 as senior medical director for certain accounts. Previously, he was the CMO at Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa and South Dakota. Also an internist, Lee started at Blue Cross in February 2012 as medical director of provider analytics and clinical performance. Their ages were not provided.