Quick Leonard Kieffer is pleased to announce that following a national search, CHRISTUS Health Central Louisiana has named Jeff Tarrant regional chief operating officer and administrator of CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital. Tarrant will also begin his role as the COO of CHRISTUS Health Central Louisiana, overseeing operations at CHRISTUS Coushatta Health Center, CHRISTUS St. Joseph’s Home in Monroe and Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria. Tarrant possesses more than 20 years of hospital management experience with the INTEGRIS Health System.

For the past eight years, Tarrant was the hospital president of INTEGRIS Bass Baptist Health Center in Enid, Oklahoma. Under Tarrant’s leadership, INTEGRIS Bass Baptist saw financial success and was named one of the nation’s top performers on Key Quality Measures by the Joint Commission. During his tenure, the hospital added a veteran’s health clinic, a sleep institute, a family medicine residency program and a heart and vascular institute.

Tarrant received a bachelor’s degree in healthcare administration from Wichita State University in 1982 and a master’s degree in healthcare administration from the University of Minnesota in 1994.

Stephen Hanson is now the president and chief executive officer of Baptist Health in Louisville, Kentucky.  Baptist owns seven acute care hospitals with more than 2,100 licensed beds, and manages two additional community facilities. The system has 15,000 employees and 300 employed physicians.

Since 2005, Hanson has served in various senior leadership positions for Texas Health Resources.  Most recently, he was an executive vice president and operations leader for the region covering Dallas-Fort Worth. Texas Health Resources is one of the largest faith-based, nonprofit health systems in the United States and includes 25 affiliated acute care hospitals.

Hanson’s accomplishments include more than 30 years of experience in key executive roles and a solid background in clinical service development, physician integration, development of strategic alliances and financial and quality improvement efforts.

Hanson also served as president and CEO of Kentucky-based Appalachian Regional Healthcare from 1999 to 2005; Hanson and his family will once again be located in Kentucky. 

Abrazo Health Care in Phoenix, Arizona has named Stan Holm president of West Valley Hospital in Goodyear, Arizona.  Holm will be accountable for the operations of the 164-bed, acute care community hospital serving the Southwest Valley, and he will serve as a key member of the system’s senior leadership team. He brings a successful track record in programmatic development and physician partnerships.   

Holm joins Abrazo following almost ten years of experience with the for-profit HMA health system as a hospital president. The HMA health system operates approximately 70 facilities in 15 states.  Prior to HMA, Stan was employed by Parkland Health System in Dallas, Texas in progressive responsibility positions in the areas of outpatient clinics and emergency, professional and environmental services for nine years.  Stan has a bachelor’s degree in economics and an MHA from the University of Oklahoma.

Quick Leonard Kieffer is pleased to announce that the new President and CEO of St. Peter’s Hospital in Helena, Montana is Nate Olson. The announcement follows the board’s national search for a new chief executive officer.

Olson, 51, was most recently the chief executive officer of St. Francis Medical Center, a general acute care facility with 172 beds, and he was also the vice president of distributed delivery at Centura Health in Colorado.  He has 30 years of financial and healthcare management experience, as he was previously the CEO of hospitals and health systems in Nebraska, Illinois and Colorado.  Throughout the years, Olson has held leadership roles with the American Heart Association, Rotary, a local Chamber of Commerce, and his church.

Olson, who is also a Certified Public Accountant, received his undergraduate degree from Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado and an MBA from the University of Phoenix. One of his early career highlights includes the year when he worked in the Netherlands. His wife, Kris, and he have two grown daughters, Jackey and Hannah, and one granddaughter, Abbey.

Tom Easley has joined the American Medical Association (AMA) as the senior vice president of Periodic Publications, taking on the responsibility of publishing the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), JAMA Network, and American Medical News. JAMA is the most widely distributed scientific medical journal in the world with a circulation of approximately 300,000. American Medical News has a circulation of approximately 250,000.

Easley spent the past 13 years with the Massachusetts Medical Society where he was most recently the publisher and managing director of the New England Journal of Medicine. In previous roles there, Easley was responsible for strategy, marketing, global business development and overall operating performance for NEJM across all products and customer markets.

Earlier in his career, Easley held the editorial director position for Mosby Consumer Health. He was also an acquisitions editor at Elsevier Science Publishing and a sales director at Time Inc. In addition to his job responsibilities, Tom has been active in professional publishing groups, serving on the Executive Council of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division within the Association of American Publishers. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University.

Kevin Cmunt has been named chief executive officer of Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network. Gift of Hope is a not-for-profit organ procurement organization that coordinates organ and tissue donation while also providing public education on the donation process in Illinois and northwest Indiana.

Cmunt comes to Gift of Hope from AlloSource, Gift of Hope’s Denver-based tissue processing and distribution partner, where he has served as executive vice president since 2000. In that role, he has been responsible for AlloSource’s external relationships, including management of donor agency partnerships and business relationships with customers, medical professionals and hospitals. This includes driving progressive product development that honors the gift of donation by maximizing its impact to the medical community and tissue transplant recipients.

In addition to his role with AlloSource, Cmunt has provided industry leadership for the past year as president-elect for the American Association of Tissue Banks. He is also the chairman of the Board for LABS Inc., which is the leading provider of testing services for the tissue industry, and Cmunt is a Board member for the Joint Restoration Foundation, which advances the use of allografts in sports medicine. Before joining AlloSource, Cmunt spent 10 years working for the American Re-Fuel Company, serving in various engineering, operations and business development roles. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois and a master’s degree in civil engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology.

Brinsley Lewis has joined the Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus, Ohio as president of Mount Carmel East Hospital.  Mount Carmel is the second largest healthcare system in central Ohio with more than 8,000 employees and 1,500 physicians.  As president of Mount Carmel East, Lewis is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the 385-bed facility and will serve as a key member of the healthcare system’s senior leadership team.

Prior to joining Mount Carmel, Lewis served as CEO of Florida Hospital Carrollwood in Tampa, Florida, which is a part of the Adventist Healthcare system. He headed an Adventist hospital in suburban Chicago for 12 years before his work in Tampa, and Lewis held various administrative positions at Illinois hospitals prior to his work in Chicago. Lewis’ early career experience includes positions in business development and strategic planning. He holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan and an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management in Chicago.