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Hires
AHIP tapped LaShawn McIver to function its chief well being fairness officer. She joined AHIP from CMS, the place she served as director of the company’s workplace of minority well being. Previous to that, McIver spent 9 years main authorities affairs and advocacy for the American Diabetes Affiliation.
Healing — which was based in 2020 as a Covid-19 testing firm however has since pivoted to supply medical health insurance protection in Texas — appointed Sean Maguire as its chief progress officer. He served as vice chairman and nationwide follow chief at Humana for practically a decade.
Medical coding automation startup Fathom named Enoch Shih as COO. Earlier than Fathom, he spent over seven years in management positions at Gusto, a supplier of payroll software program.
Client-focused digital healthcare platform GoodRx welcomed Dorothy Gemmell as its new chief business officer. She has a long time of management expertise at numerous healthcare firms, together with Capsule and WebMD.
Luna, an organization that gives bodily remedy in sufferers’ houses, named RaeAnn Grossman as chief progress officer. She has beforehand held management roles at healthcare firms together with Vivid Well being, Signify Well being and Optum.
Phoenix Kids’s welcomed Michelle Bruhn as its new CFO. Earlier than becoming a member of the youngsters’s hospital, Bruhn was CFO at South Dakota-based Sanford Well being, the place she spent practically 25 years.
Departures
Cleveland Clinic CIO Matthew Kull will be a part of Inova, a Virginia-based well being system, in August as its new chief data and digital officer. He’s leaving Cleveland Clinic after serving as CIO for 5 years. Sarah Hatchett will take over Kull’s function — she has been the well being system’s affiliate CIO since 2021.
Jefferson Well being’s Mark Tykocinski just lately stepped down from his roles. He was president of Thomas Jefferson College and interim dean of the Sidney Kimmel Medical School. Neither he nor Jefferson Well being stated that this was the explanation for his resignation, however Tykocinski was concerned in an argument earlier this 12 months after liking some tweets that questioned the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines and criticized gender reassignment surgical procedure. He stated that he favored these tweets so he might bookmark them and higher perceive numerous factors of view — not as a result of he agrees with them.
Promotions
Optum Well being appointed Amar Desai as its new CEO. He joined UnitedHealth Group as executive-in-residence in April, and earlier than that, he was CVS Well being’s president of healthcare supply. Desai is changing Wyatt Decker, who served as Optum Well being’s CEO since 2019 and is now transitioning to the function of chief doctor at UnitedHealth Group.
Nationwide Kids’s Hospital welcomed Ray Bignall as chief range and well being fairness officer. He’s a pediatric nephrologist who joined the system in 2018.
Trinity Life Sciences, which gives consulting companies and expertise options to life sciences corporations trying to commercialize their product, welcomed Leslie Orne as its new CEO. She has labored on the firm for greater than 20 years.
Layoffs
Minneapolis-based Allina Well being started a spherical of layoffs that it stated will have an effect on fewer than 350 staff.
Digital therapeutics firm Biofourmis confirmed it laid off 120 staff worldwide, together with 48 U.S.-based staff.
Biogen introduced it’s slicing 1,000 jobs. The pharmaceutical big stated these layoffs are part of its plan to save lots of $700 million in web working prices by 2025.
Nurse staffing platform ConnectRN laid off 57 staff, which is about 20% of its workforce.
New York-based Garnet Well being laid off 49 staff, together with 25 of its leaders, to offset its working losses.
Psychological well being firm Headspace Well being has confirmed it laid off 181 staff, which is about 15% of its worker base.
Nurse staffing startup IntelyCare confirmed that it laid off at the very least 30 of its staff.
Philadelphia-based Jefferson Well being stated it’s slicing about 400 jobs, which is 1% of its workforce.
Telehealth startup TytoCare laid off 20 staff, which is about 10% of its workforce.
North Carolina-based UNC Well being plans to let go of 246 staff when it places an finish to companies at its behavioral well being facility in Raleigh in September.
