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Here’s a number of current govt hires, promotions, departures and layoffs occurring throughout the healthcare trade.
Hires
CVRx named Kevin Hykes as its new CEO. He joins CVRx from Augmedics, the place he additionally served as CEO.
Doximity welcomed Lisa Greenbaum as its new chief business officer. She has beforehand held management positions at a number of healthcare corporations, together with Verily, Progyny and WebMD.
Helio Genomics appointed Gary Frazier as its chief development officer. Prior to now, Frazier based and acted as CEO for 2 totally different healthcare startups, Worksite Labs and OM Healthcare.
QuantHealth welcomed Adam Petrich as its first chief medical officer and Adam Goldenberg as its first CFO.
RWJBarnabas Well being named Lynda Markoe as its new chief individuals officer. Earlier than becoming a member of the well being system, she served as chief individuals and tradition officer at Mattress, Bathtub and Past and held human assets roles at J. Crew and Hole.
Verily welcomed Myoung Cha as chief product officer. He involves the corporate from Carbon Well being, the place he served as president and chief technique officer.
Walgreens not too long ago employed three new leaders. The corporate welcomed Elizabeth Burger as chief human assets officer and employed Lanesha Minnix as chief authorized officer. It additionally appointed Mary Langowski to guide its U.S. healthcare phase. Langowski involves Walgreens the corporate from Solera Well being, the place she had been serving as CEO. Earlier than that, she was govt vp and chief technique and company growth officer at CVS Well being.
Promotions
Centene promoted Erika McConduit from her place as chief range, fairness and inclusion officer to chief influence officer. She has been with Centene since 2019.
Emory Healthcare appointed Madhu Behera as its inaugural chief analysis informatics officer. She has been with the well being system since 2009, beforehand serving as chief informatics and knowledge officer for Emory’s Winship Most cancers Institute.
HCA Healthcare named Chad Wasserman as its new CIO. He has been working at HCA for 28 years and beforehand served as senior vp and chief working officer for HCA’s Data Expertise Group, which offers tech technique and assist for all HCA amenities.
UnitedHealthcare appointed Michael Baker as its new COO. He has been with the corporate since 2013, not too long ago main shopper operations and serving because the insurer’s COO for supplier operations.
Walgreens promoted Manmohan Mahajan from interim CFO to everlasting CFO. He has been with the corporate since 2016.
Exits
UnitedHealth Group COO Dirk McMahon plans to retire in April. He has been within the COO position at UnitedHealth Group since 2021 — earlier than that, McMahon served as CEO of UnitedHealthcare and COO of Optum.
Layoffs
Amazon disclosed plans to lay off a whole lot of employees throughout its healthcare enterprise models, akin to One Medical and Amazon Pharmacy.
Astarte Medical is shutting down its operations and shedding its remaining employees members.
Elevance Well being laid off extra staff. The precise variety of job cuts isn’t clear, however stories say that Elevance has let go of 1000’s of employees prior to now six months.
Included Well being has made the choice to let go about 6% of their workforce. CEO Owen Tripp mentioned that this new construction will create narrower management, narrower initiatives and narrower budgets.
Noom laid off a few of its employees as nicely. The precise quantity is unknown, however Endpoints Information reported the layoffs affected staff in well being teaching and engineering roles.
Rush College System for Well being laid off an undisclosed quantity of staff working in administrative and management positions, citing monetary headwinds.
