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117 PRACTICE MANAGEMENT THOUGHT LEADERSHIP Hospital & health system executive moves Hagerstown, Md.-based Meritus Health named Maulik Joshi president and CEO, effective in mid-November, according to Herald Mail Media. Pamela Sutton-Wallace, acting executive vice president for health affairs for Richmond-based University of Virginia Health System and CEO of UVA Medical Center, is leaving for a leadership role at New York City-based NewYork-Presbyte- rian Hospital in November. Jamestown, N.Y.-based UPMC Chautauqua has selected Brian Durniok to serve as president. Larry Kaiser, MD, president and CEO of Phila- delphia-based Temple University Health System, is leaving the role, effective Dec. 31. Jay de los Reys, CEO of Lake Huron Medical Center in Port Huron, Mich., is resigning. Lincoln Health System in Fayetteville, Tenn., named William Spray interim CEO. Adventist Health Tillamook (Ore.) has tapped Eric Swanson to serve as president. Jupiter (Fla.) Medical Center appointed Amit Rastogi, MD, its new CEO, effective Sept. 23. George Rohrich, CEO of St. Peter, Minn.-based River's Edge Hospital, plans to step down from the role. North Canyon Medical Center in Gooding, Ida- ho, named J'Dee Adams CEO, effective Nov. 1. Lisle, Ill.-based Amita Health CEO Mark Frey is departing from the role.' (continues on p. 122) Hospital & health system transactions HSC Health Care System will merge its pediatric hospital, outpatient thera- py center, skilled nursing facility, home health services and health plan into Children's National as a wholly owned subsidiary. Both systems are in Washing- ton, D.C. Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems has sold Heart of Florida Regional Medical Cen- ter in Davenport and 160-bed Lake Wales (Fla.) Medical Center to Al- tamonte Springs, Fla.-based Advent- Health. Allegan (Mich.) General Hospital, a 25-bed hospital, will join Ascension Michigan on Sept. 1. Brentwood, Tenn.-based Quorum Health expects to complete the dives- titure of a 106-bed Watsonville (Calif.) Community Hospital to Los Ange- les-based Halsen Healthcare in the next few months. The merger of Sandy Springs, Ga.- based Northside Hospital and Law- renceville, Ga.-based Gwinnett Medi- cal Center will be official Aug. 28. Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network signed an affiliation agree- ment with Grove City (Pa.) Medical Cen- ter, the organizations said Aug. 19. The Connecticut Office of Health Strat- egy has approved Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare's acquisition of substantial- ly all of the assets of St. Vincent's Med- ical Center in Bridgeport, Conn., from Ascension. The University of Louisville (Ky.) board approved a deal Aug. 14 to take over Jewish Hospital and KentuckyOne Health's other Louisville assets, which include three more hospitals and four outpatient centers. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho-based Kootenai Health has entered into a letter of intent to acquire two critical access hospitals, Clearwater Valley Hospital and Clin - ics in Orofin o, Idaho, and St. Mary's Hospital and Clinics in Cottonwood, Idaho, from Duluth, Minn.-based Essen- tia Health. Lexington, Ky.-based Appalachian Re- gional Healthcare acquired Highlands Regional Medical Center, a 192-bed hospital in Prestonsburg, Ky., on Aug. 1. Phoenix-based Banner Health plans to acquire North Colorado Medical Cen- ter in Greeley, which it has operated since 1995. Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems has completed the sale of College Station (Texas) Medical Center to Bryan, Texas-based CHI St. Joseph Health Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems has completed the sale of Tennova Healthcare-Lebanon (Tenn.) to Nashville, Tenn.-based Van- derbilt University Medical Center on Aug. 1. Butler (Pa.) Health System and Clarion (Pa.) Healthcare System have signed a definitive agreement to merge Philadelphia-based Temple University has agreed to sell Fox Chase Cancer Center and its interest in Health Part- ners Plan to Thomas Jefferson Univer- sity in Philadelphia. In a move to expand its international presence, Sioux Falls, S.D.-based San- ford Health has acquired a minority eq- uity stake in Hospital Metropolitano, a health system in Costa Rica. Gaithersburg, Md.-based Adventist HealthCare has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Fort Washington (Md.) Medical Center. Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare and Evergreen Park, Ill.-based Little Com- pany of Mary Hospital and Health Centers are negotiating a full merger, according to a July 17 announcement. Care New England Health System, a three-hospital system based in Provi- dence, R.I., announced July 16 that its board voted to withdraw from merger talks with Lifespan and Brown Univer- sity, both in Providence. Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has added Saudi German Hospital Cairo in Egypt to the Mayo Clinic Care Network. Aspirus, a rural health system in Wausau, Wis., signed a letter of intent with Divine Savior Healthcare in Portage, Wis., the organizations announced July 10. AHMC Healthcare, a Southern Califor- nia-based integrated health system, is the new owner of Parkview Commu- nity Hospital Medical Center in River- side, Calif. Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health has completed its merger with Bon Secours Health System in Dublin, Ireland's largest private healthcare pro- vider. Stony Brook (N.Y.) Medicine complet- ed its acquisition of 90-bed Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport, N.Y., July 1. n