FaithSearch Vice President Jim Boyle represented the firm at the 2015 Catholic Health Assembly June 7-9 in Washington, D.C., which marks the sixth consecutive year the company has sponsored the…
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FaithSearch Partners, the leading executive search firm focused on faith-based hospitals, healthcare systems, colleges/universities, churches and ministries, is pleased to announce Rita Haxton, DNP, RN, NEA-BC has been selected…
FaithSearch Partners, the leading executive search firm focused on faith-based hospitals, healthcare systems, colleges/universities, churches and ministries, is pleased to announce its client, Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas (BHSET) has…
Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas (BHSET), in Beaumont, Texas has announced Karen Tomsu as Chief Nursing Officer. BHSET is a 364-bed, multi-campus organization and market leader. As CNO, Tomsu will…
FaithSearch Partners is pleased to announce it has been retained to manage the search for Kettering College’s new Director of its Division of Nursing. The college is owned by Kettering Medical Center…
FaithSearch Partners, the only retained executive search firm focusing exclusively on faith-based healthcare organizations, has once again appeared in the Modern Healthcare annual listing of the largest healthcare search firms…
Since 1990, Ed has successfully assisted faith-based organization boards and executive teams in securing mission-minded leaders. He has served as a Vice President/Partner of Witt/Kieffer, the largest healthcare executive search…
Ivan Bartolome joined FaithSearch in 2008 and most recently served as the Administrative Director for Cardiovascular Services at Shawnee Mission Medical Center, the second largest hospital in the metro Kansas City…
Serving as FaithSearch Partners’ Vice President of Administrative Services, Porsche provides oversight to the administrative support team which assists FaithSearch consultants in executing high-quality search services for the firm’s clients….
Joining FaithSearch Partners in 2007, Courtney has played a crucial role in research since the beginning of the firm, utilizing a variety of techniques and resources, both internal and external,…
FaithSearch Partners announced today the successful appointment of Rev. Dr. Steven Jay Davis as Senior Pastor of First Congregational Church of the Redlands (FCCR) in California. The historic church, built…
FaithSearch will again be well-represented at the largest gathering of Catholic healthcare and mission leaders. Ed Fry, CEO, and Jim Boyle, Senior Vice President, will be in attendance at the…
Community Hospital Corporation in Plano, Texas, has appointed Jill Bayless as Senior Vice President, Clinical Services. CHC is a nonprofit health system consisting of five acute care hospitals and six…
Adventist Health System (AHS) has named Herb Keller as its new Chief Information Officer of AHS Information Services after a successful search process with FaithSearch Partners. Adventist Health System is one of…
FaithSearch Partners announced today Don Welch, Jr., has been named Regional Chief Financial Officer of the Northwest Region of Adventist Health, based in Portland, OR. The region encompasses four acute…
Millions of people receive healthcare at faith-based organizations (FBOs) across the nation every year. But do they know what makes a faith-based healthcare organization different from its secular counterparts? If…
FaithSearch Partners has been selected by Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas (BHSET) to conduct the search for its new Director of Clinical Quality. The health system, based in Beaumont, is…
Florida Hospital Waterman (FHW), a leading provider of acute and home health services in Central Florida, has recently retained FaithSearch Partners to assist in the search for its Vice President/Chief Nursing…
Leading a faith-based healthcare organization is a demanding and complicated endeavor. One must not only be an effective healthcare administrator and people manager, but must also work from a perspective…
Since 1990, Ed has successfully assisted the boards and executive teams of faith-based colleges/universities and other organizations in securing mission-minded leaders. He has served as a Vice President/Partner of Witt/Kieffer,…
Ivan joined FaithSearch in 2008 and most recently served in leadership for a large faith-based organization in the Kansas City area. Previously, he led marketing and public relations initiatives at…
John Sackett, President of Shady Grove Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., is 58 years old and living with cystic fibrosis, but that doesn’t stop him from creating unparalleled patient and employee…
Orlando-based Adventist University of Health Sciences (ADU) has named Edwin Hernández, Ph.D., as Provost of the Florida Hospital tertiary degree-offering institution specializing in allied health and nursing education. Since opening…
Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas (BHSET) has chosen FaithSearch Partners to conduct the search for its new Chief Operating Officer. The two-hospital, faith-based healthcare system employs more than 1,500 individuals and…
The First Congregational Church of Redlands (FCCR) has recently selected FaithSearch Partners to assist in the search for its new Senior Pastor. Built in 1880, FCCR is a mid-sized congregation made up of…
St. Jude Medical Center of Fullerton, Calif. recently retained FaithSearch Partners to conduct the search for its Director of Mission Services position. In this role, the individual selected will collaborate with St….
FaithSearch Partners, a leading executive search firm serving faith-based organizations, announced today it donated $120,000 to various ministries and faith-based organizations in 2014. The release of the statistic is a well-timed…
FaithSearch Partners, Inc., the leading executive search firm focused on faith-based hospitals, healthcare systems, colleges/universities, churches and ministries, has appointed Kim Moeller as Vice President, joining Jeff Jernigan, Senior Vice…
Following two months of discovery and collaboration, FaithSearch Partners, Inc. has announced an official strategic communications partnership with expert, Nashville-based marketing and digital agency, 5by5. FaithSearch Partners is the only…
The Scenario: The associate pastor, Jason, was well loved by the congregation, particularly when he first arrived at Pastor Kitchen’s church just over three years ago. Yet now he has Pastor…
Last month marked the beginning of the 25th year of my wonderful journey in executive search. Starting with this month’s newsletter, I’ll be sharing a few observations from the past quarter…
Maryland-based Washington Adventist Hospital (WAH) recently named Erik Wangsness as President of the 252-bed acute-care facility following an executive search managed by FaithSearch Partners. Most recently Wangsness served as President/CEO…
Although the average tenure for senior Information Technology leaders within healthcare organizations has headed upwards over the past few years, it’s still relatively short, on average about four years. Here…
Dallas’ well-known Highland Park United Methodist Church (HPUMC) recently retained FaithSearch Partners to conduct the search for its Director of Music and Arts. Founded in 1916, the church originated from…
CHRISTUS Continuing Care, the post-acute division of CHRISTUS Health, recently appointed FaithSearch Partners to conduct searches for a vice president of operations and system director of business development. CHRISTUS Health…
Dallas’ well-known Highland Park United Methodist Church recently retained FaithSearch Partners to conduct the search for its Director of Choral Music. Founded in 1916, the church originated from humble beginnings…
The Scenario: Pastor Kitchens was generally pleased with the past several personnel committee meetings. With just one more scheduled meeting left, another round of filling positions for the church was…
In last month’s column I addressed a common pattern observed among senior pastors and para-church ministry CEO’s. Church or ministry leaders were encouraged to avoid falling into the trap of…
As the leading national retained firm for faith-based organizations, FaithSearch Partners paid special attention to the June 30 US Supreme Court ruling that the owners of closely held, private corporations…
Modern Healthcare magazine recently released its annual “Largest Healthcare Systems” issue naming 10 clients served by FaithSearch Partners or its consultants. “Once again, it’s gratifying that many of the largest,…
Denyse Bales-Chubb has been selected Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of suburban Tampa’s Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel (FHWC) following a search managed by FaithSearch Partners. Her official duties begin August 1….
Maryland-based Shady Grove Adventist Hospital (SGAH) recently selected FaithSearch Partners to conduct the search for its Chief Nursing Executive (CNE). SGAH is a 339-bed hospital located in Rockville, MD, a…
CURE International recently retained Houston-based FaithSearch Partners, the nation’s leading retained executive search firm focusing on faith-based organizations, to assist in the search for its first Medical Director/Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon…
Two new presidents will soon be in place at faith-based colleges after the completion of nationwide searches conducted by FaithSearch Partners. Dr. Kenneth Shaw recently accepted the invitation of Southwestern…
FaithSearch Partners ranked number 13 among the nation’s 15 largest retained healthcare executive search firms by revenue according to the 2014 Largest Healthcare Executive Search Firms Survey recently released by Modern…
When I “retired” as a senior pastor, the denomination moved Nancy and me into a “Pastor at Large” roles. That is a nice way of saying in addition to leading…
“Dr. Kenneth Shaw is new president of Southwestern Adventist University. Shaw, currently associate dean of academic programs at the Panama City campus of Florida State University, accepted the invitation of Southwestern’s…
David VandeVere was recently selected as vice president of finance by the Potomac Conference of Seventh-day Adventists headquartered in Staunton, Virginia. In his position, he will head the treasury department…
Terry Forde has been named the new president and chief executive officer of Adventist HealthCare (AHC), an integrated, health-care delivery organization based in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Forde, who has served as…
Steven Province was recently selected by Texas-based Providence Healthcare Network (PHN) to fill the position of Senior Vice President/Chief Operating Officer. PHN is a ministry unit of Ascension Health, the…
