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35 CEO / STRATEGY HCA hospitals make 21 leadership changes By Ayla Ellison H CA Healthcare, a 182-hospital system based in Nashville, Tenn., has made leadership changes at several of its hospitals in recent months. Here are 21 executive moves at HCA hospitals since June: 1. Keri Pintozzi was named CFO of HCA Florida Lake City Hospital. 2. Suha "Sue" DeLeon, MSN, RN, was named chief nursing officer of HCA Florida West Marion Hospital in Ocala 3. Cheryl Wild, MSN, was named chief nursing officer of HCA Florida Palms West Hospital in Loxahatchee. 4. Hiram Jacob was named COO of HCA Florida Citrus Hospital in Inverness. 5. Brent Burish was named CEO of HCA Florida Pasadena Hospital in St. Petersburg. 6. Michelle Farris was named chief nursing officer of HCA Florida Osceola Hospital in Kissimmee. 7. Angel Monroy, MSN, RN, APRN, was named vice president of nursing operations at HCA Midwest Health in Overland Park, Kan. 8. Marko Serrano Jr. was named assistant CFO of HCA Florida JFK North Hospital in West Palm Beach. 9. Samir Akach, MD, was named assistant chief medical officer of HCA Florida JFK Hospital in Atlantis and HCA Florida JFK North Hospital in West Palm Beach. 10. Sheila Sanders, BSN, RN, was named chief nursing officer of HCA Florida Oak Hill Hospital in Brooksville. 11. Jeanna Bamburg was named CEO of e Women's Hospital of Texas in Houston, part of HCA. 12. Marsha Myers was named CEO of Mission Hospital McDowell in Marion, N.C., part of HCA. 13. Deborah Kamlot-Wright was named vice president of human resources at HCA Florida Citrus Hospital in Inverness. 14. Michael Irvin was promoted to CEO of HCA Florida Trinity Hospital. 15. Peter Hemstead was named CEO of HCA Florida West Marion Hospital in Ocala. 16. Lauren Dudley was named CEO of LewisGale Hospital Montgomery in Blacksburg, Va., part of HCA. 17. Eric Schuck, MD, was named chief medical officer of HCA Florida Fort Walton-Destin Hospital in Fort Walton Beach and HCA Florida Twin Cities Hospital in Niceville. 18. Bland Eng was named chief development officer of HCA Healthcare West Florida Division. 19. LaSharndra "Sharn" Barbarin was named CEO of HCA's Medical City Arlington (Texas). 20. Ajit Singh, MD, was named chief medical officer of Henrico (Va.) Doctors' Hospital, part of HCA. 21. Keith Zimmerman was named president of HCA's MidAmerica Division. n President of Texas health system abruptly resigns after being placed on leave By Molly Gamble B en Raimer, MD, submitted his resignation from the role of president of the University of Texas Medical Branch Aug. 22, two weeks after he was placed on administrative leave for undisclosed reasons, the Houston Chronicle reports. Charles Mouton, MD, executive vice president, provost and dean of the UTMB John Sealy School of Medicine, will serve as interim president. The system will conduct a national search for a new leader. The academic health system did not disclose the reason for the longtime UTMB leader's departure. When he was placed on administrative leave Aug. 8, the system only said the move was not "in any way connected to the operations at UTMB or the Galveston National Lab." The lab has drawn scrutiny over agreements with three Chinese research labs, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Houston Chronicle reports. Dr. Raimer has been with UTMB for decades, including his start as a student in the graduate and medical schools. In 1993, he became the senior vice president of health policy and legislative affairs. He was appointed interim president of UTMB in 2019, assuming the role permanently in 2021. Clinically, much of Dr. Raimer's practice has been devoted to the evaluation and treatment of children and adolescents with behavioral disorders and learning disabilities. UTMB includes four hospital campuses and more than 90 primary and specialty care clinics in Southeast Texas. n