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Star Medical Center, a surgical hospital in Plano,
Texas, named Amy Brinkley as CNO.
Chad Couch, MD, was named CMO of Bristol
(Tenn.) Regional Medical Center.
Fredericksburg, Va.-based Mary Washington
Healthcare promoted Eileen Dohmann to senior
vice president and CNO.
Pardee Hospital in Hendersonville, N.C., appoint-
ed David Ellis, MD, as permanent CMO. He had
been serving as interim CMO of the hospital since
November 2014.
Patricia "Pidge" Gooch, RN, was named CNO of
Kaiser Permanente in the Central Valley, a region in-
cluding two hospitals in Modesto and Manteca, Calif.
Salem (Ore.) Health hired Steve Gordon, MD, as
CMO. He was previously vice president for care
transformation at PeaceHealth in Vancouver,
Wash., and has also served as PeaceHealth's chief
quality officer.
Henry Ford West Bloomfield (Mich.) Hospital
promoted Karen Harris, RN, to chief nursing and
operations executive.
Jacqueline Herd, DNP, was named vice president
and CNO of Midtown Medical Center in Colum-
bus, Ga.
July Holt, RN, was named CNO of Cincinnati-
based The Christ Hospital Health Network.
St. James Mercy Hospital in Hornell, N.Y., named
Raymond J. Mayewski, MD, as interim CMO and
medical director.
Cape Regional Health System in Cape May Court
House, N.J., appointed Andrea McCoy, MD, as
CMO.
Tracey Moffatt, RN, was named system CNO and
vice president of quality at New Orleans-based
Ochsner Health System.
James W. Morris II, MD, was named CMO of
University Medical Center in Lebanon, Tenn., ef-
fective Aug. 3.
Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth named Mi-
chael Murphy, MD, as its first system-level CMO.
Dr. Murphy is a board-certified OB-GYN.
Green Bay, Wis.-based Prevea Health added Laura
Nelson, MD, to the organization as vice president
and CMO-Northern Division.
Gainesville-based North Florida Regional Medi-
cal Center named Natalie Ransom, MSN, as CNO.
Denver-based SCL Health appointed Geri
Towndrow, RN, as its first system CNO.
Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, hired Matthew
Wayne, MD, as CMO of its accountable care
organization, NewHealth Collaborative, and its
growing employed physician group, Summa Phy-
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