Author: Courtney Fry

FaithSearch Partners, Inc., a top ten healthcare executive search firm based in Dallas, TX, has announced it has added two prominent healthcare leaders to its board of directors.  The new directors are Leon Leach, former Executive Vice President of University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and Arthur L. Rice, a long-time healthcare...

FaithSearch Partners has been retained to manage the search for a Chief Executive Officer for Florida Hospital for Children in Orlando, Florida. Housed within the Walt Disney Pavilion, Florida Hospital for Children (FHFC) is a nearly 200-bed children’s hospital recently named among the top 10 children’s hospitals by the Leapfrog Group. The hospital is part...

CMS Overhauls Skilled Nursing Payment Plan, Increases Rate by $850 Million “The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Friday unveiled a new proposed model for skilled nursing reimbursements that the agency says will save providers $2 billion over the next decade,” Skilled Nursing News reports. “The proposed Resident Classification System, Version I (RCS-I)...

Q&A with Presbyterian Healthcare Services CEO Dale Maxwell “Presbyterian Healthcare Services, a not-for-profit, integrated health system based in New Mexico, has succeeded in launching care models that keep patients out of the hospital. Dale Maxwell, who officially took over as CEO just over a year ago, says the organization will continue to advance new delivery...

CHRISTUS Health Gets Good News From Moody’s “In early 2017, CHRISTUS Health System finalized a deal to bring Longview-based Good Shepherd Health System under its direction. Late last week, the Irving-based not-for-profit’s efforts to turnaround Good Shepherd were recognized by Moody’s Investor Service,” according to D CEO Healthcare. “Moody’s raised Good Shepherd’s bond rating by...

Shawnee Mission Health Names New CEO, Sam Huenergardt “Shawnee Mission Health’s new CEO is coming from Colorado, but he has ties to Kansas. Sam Huenergardt, who will take the job May 28, worked at Shawnee Mission Health as a controller, a financial record-keeping job, from 2003 to 2005 and got a master’s in business administration...

FaithSearch Partners is delighted to announce that its client, Adventist University of Health Sciences (ADU), has selected Sandee Dunbar, DPA, OTRL\A, FAOTA, as its next Provost beginning in July. Dr. Dunbar most recently served as Assistant Dean for Professional Development and Education at Nova Southeastern University in the College of Health Care Science. She holds...

Staffing Efficiency, Flexibility Key to Future Skilled Nursing Success “A recent report puts some hard numbers to the pressures skilled nursing facilities face — and offered a prediction of its own about the much-anticipated ‘silver tsunami,’” reports Skilled Nursing News. “Though occupancy has been declining in skilled nursing facilities, falling from 87% in 2015 to 82% in...

FaithSearch Partners has been retained by Ohana Pacific Management Company (OPMC) in Oahu, Hawaii, to manage two nursing leadership searches. Based in the Honolulu area, OPMC is the largest post-acute organization in Hawaii, providing a continuum of healthcare services. The first search is for a Director of Nursing to lead The Villas, a 119-bed, post-acute...

Presbyterian Healthcare Services to Hire 350 Employees for New Hospital in Sante Fe “Albuquerque, N.M.-based Presbyterian Healthcare Services will host career fairs to hire for its Presbyterian Santa Fe (N.M.) Medical Center slated to open this fall,” Becker’s Hospital Review reports. “Once built, the $145 million, 342,000-square-foot Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center will include 30 private inpatient...