Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. Please submit the good news—or the bad—from your shop, and we will feature it here at the end of each week.
NYC Health + Hospitals, Woodhull
Sandra Sneed has been appointed CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull. Sneed brings more than 20 years of senior leadership experience overseeing operations for hospitals across the country, and she has a strong record of expanding access to services while reducing wait times for patients. Her new position marks a return to NYC Health + Hospitals. She was born at NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens, and she began her career as an occupational therapist at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue and NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County. Sneed becomes CEO of Woodhull Hospital effective March 24. Woodhull Hospital’s current CEO Gregory Calliste will step down after over nine years leading Woodhull Hospital and 33 years of service to the health system.
“We are grateful to Gregory Calliste for his many tremendous years of service to the health care system, both at Woodhull Hospital and his earlier roles at North Central Bronx and Kings County Hospitals, and I want to extend a warm welcome to Sandra Sneed as she joins NYC Health + Hospitals,” said NYC Health + Hospitals President and CEO Mitchell Katz, M.D. “As someone who was born in our system and has worked in our system, she truly understands our mission to serve every New Yorker, no exceptions.”
Cadence
Remote monitoring provider Cadence appointed Eve Cunningham, M.D., as its chief medical officer. Cunningham has spent the last 20 years deploying transformational health system programs at scale, leading large multidisciplinary medical groups and integrating AI into clinical care at some of the largest nonprofit health systems in the country.
Cunningham is a board-certified OB-GYN and leader in virtual care, clinical AI and clinician burnout. She most recently served as group vice president, chief of virtual care and digital health at Providence, where she led enterprise care transformation initiatives such as inpatient telehealth, remote patient monitoring, virtual nursing and hospital at home. She also cofounded MedPearl, an AI-assisted clinical decision support platform. Earlier in her career, she served as chief medical officer of Providence Medical Group Southwest and held various clinical and service line leadership roles at what is now CommonSpirit/Virginia Mason Franciscan Health in the Pacific Northwest.
"Cadence is uniquely positioned to partner with health systems to more effectively manage patients beyond the four walls of a hospital or clinic. The ease of implementing and scaling effective remote care programs that add critical access and reduce clinician burden, combined with the exceptional level of care they are delivering to patients fills critical gaps in our current care delivery infrastructure,” Cunningham said in a statement. “The future of healthcare requires us to reimagine how clinicians practice medicine.”
Health Network One
Health Network One announced today the appointment of H. Kelley Riley, M.D., as its new chief medical officer. Riley will lead the company's clinical strategy and oversee all medical functions, reporting directly to the CEO. In this role, he will collaborate closely with internal teams, external partners and stakeholders to drive clinical excellence, enhance operational performance and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
Riley brings more than two decades of medical leadership experience to Health Network One. Most recently, he served as chief medical officer at SummaCare, where he played a key role in implementing health and wellness initiatives. Prior to that, he held CMO positions at Rite Aid and its subsidiary, Elixir, where he focused on clinical strategy and operational improvements. His career also includes leadership roles at myNEXUS and BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, providing him with extensive expertise in managed care and specialty health services.
> Fred Ong has been tapped as the chief financial officer at Jupiter Endovascular.
> World Class Health announced the addition of Jarrett Michau as president and Peter Doumas as chief revenue officer.
> Jonathan Johnson has been named a board member of Nursa.
> Isabella Grumbach, M.D., was named chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and clinical service chief at OU Health. She will also have educational and research responsibilities for the university.
> Shearwater Health announced the appointment of Mike Tudeen as chairman of the board.