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62 Hospital and health system transactions Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Md., and Doctors Community Health System, a single-hospital system based in Lanham, Md., announced merger plans in mid-May. Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic Health System and La Crosse, Wis.-based Gundersen Health Sys- tem are exploring a merger that would create a 13-hospital rural healthcare network, the organi- zations said May 7. Maywood, Ill.-based Loyola Medicine and Palos Health in Palos Heights, Ill., have called off merg- er discussions aer signing a nonbinding letter of intent in January. Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health signed a letter of intent to merge with Ireland's largest private healthcare provider, Bon Secours Health System in Dublin. Pensacola, Fla.-based Emergency Care Partners, a regional provider of emergency medicine and outsourced emergency department management services, is merging with Gonzales, La.-based As- cension Emergency Physicians. Brentwood, Tenn.-based Quorum Health has completed the sale of Scenic Mountain Medical Center, a 146-bed hospital in Big Spring, Texas, to Dallas-based Steward Health Care. Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health signed a memorandum of understanding to build an aca- demic healthcare system with Wake Forest Bap- tist Health and Wake Forest University, both in Winston-Salem, N.C. LaGrangeville, N.Y.-based Health Quest and Danbury-based Western Connecticut Health Network have combined to form a new nonprofit health system called Nuvance Health. Advocate Aurora Health has assumed full own- ership of Bay Area Medical Center in Marinette, Wis. Cumberland, Md.-based Western Maryland Health System signed a nonbinding letter of in- tent with Pittsburgh-based UPMC to pursue a merger. Community Health Systems signed a definitive agreement to sell Tennova Healthcare-Lebanon (Tenn.) to Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Two hospitals owned by Centennial, Colo.-based Centura Health are now members of the MD Anderson Cancer Network. Elizabeth, N.J.-based Trinitas Regional Medical Center and Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health System in West Orange, N.J., are discuss- ing a merger. Ardent Health Services completed the sale of its interest in Bay Medical Sacred Heart in Panama City, Fla., to Ascension. Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth and Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest Baptist Health are in talks to expand services at AdventHealth's hospital in Hendersonville, N.C. Ripley, W. Va.-based Jackson General Hospital is set to be the fih hospital to join the West Vir- ginia University Health System in two years. Hospital and health executive moves Placerville, Calif.-based Marshall Medical Center has tapped Siri Nelson to serve as CEO. Fremont, Calif.-based Washington Hospital Healthcare System named Kimberly Hartz CEO. Mercy Health-Springfield (Ohio) selected Jenelle Zelinski to serve as CFO. University of Chicago Medicine appointed Brian Sinotte president of its Community Health and Hospital Division and of Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, Ill., effective July 1. UNC Lenoir Health Care in Kinston, N.C., selected Robert Enders, Jr., to serve as CEO. Fremont, Calif.-based Washington Hospital Healthcare System CEO Nancy Farber will retire aer 25 years in the post. Covington County Hospital in Collins, Miss., and Magee (Miss.) General Hospital entered into an agreement to share their top leader: Administrator and CEO Gregg Gibbes. e Queen's Health Systems in Honolulu selected Jill Hoggard Green, PhD, RN, to serve as its next president and CEO. Loring Hospital in Sac City, Iowa, named Sta- cy Johnson to the dual role of CFO and CEO. Jason Kreitner will become chief hospital ex- ecutive of Ocean Medical Center in Brick, N.J. Rick Napper, president and CEO of Odes- sa, Texas-based Medical Center Health Sys- tem, is planning to retire, effective Sept. 15. St. omas More Hospital in Cañon City, Colo., has appointed Kristi Olson CEO. Atchison (Kan.) Hospital appointed Jeffery Perry CEO, effective July 1. Mike Poore, regional president of Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Lutheran Health Net- work, resigned. Indianapolis-based St. Vincent Health Sys- tem appointed Erica Wehrmeister presi- dent of its central region. Pamela Daley Whelton was appointed executive vice president of South Shore Health and president of South Shore Hos- pital, both based in South Weymouth, Mass. New Hartford, N.Y.-based Slocum-Dick- son Medical Group selected Richard Wil- son to serve as CEO. Oaklawn Hospital in Marshall, Mich., named Gregg Beeg president and CEO. Passavant Area Hospital in Jacksonville, Ill., appointed Scott Boston, MD, presi- dent and CEO, effective June 3. Robert Chrencik, president and CEO of Baltimore-based University of Maryland Medical System, resigned April 26. Newark, N.J.-based University Hospital has appointed Shereef Elnahal, MD, presi- dent and CEO, effective July 15. Ritzville, Wash.-based East Adams Rural Healthcare, a critical access facility, tapped Corey Fedie to serve as CEO, effective June 10.