Detroit Medical Heart CEO Audrey Gregory is leaving the group after two years on the helm of the investor-owned hospital on Oct. 22.
DMC stated Thursday afternoon that Gregory will develop into president and CEO of a well being system in central Florida. She might be changed on an interim foundation by Brittany Lavis, the group’s CFO.
Gregory joined DMC in October 2019 as president, and CEO of DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital, DMC Harper College Hospital, DMC Coronary heart Hospital and DMC Hutzel Girls’s Hospital. Previous to that, she was market CEO of DMC mum or dad firm Tenet Healthcare’s Saint Francis Healthcare System in Memphis, Tenn. and CEO of St. Francis Hospital – Memphis.
Gregory was the most recent in a line of CEOs with comparatively transient stints on the hospital system. She succeeded Tony Tedeschi, who had labored for Tenet practically a decade and led DMC since 2017. Tedeschi’s tenure was marked by challenges together with monetary considerations and accreditation issues with cardiology and neurosurgery residency applications in addition to high quality citations from the Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Companies, Crain’s beforehand reported.
Tedeschi had inherited a lot of these challenges when he took over for Joe Mullany, who had helmed the well being care firm for 4 years. Mullany was changed amid a push by Tenet to chop prices and an investigation into flaws with DMC’s sterile surgical processing.
Extra lately, DMC has navigated challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to monetary strains and labor shortages for a lot of hospitals within the area. Henry Ford Well being System, Michigan Drugs and Beaumont Hospital stated they had been pressured to shut beds lately because of the labor scarcity, Crain’s reported.
Lavis has served as CFO on the hospital system for 3 years. Earlier than coming to DMC, she was the Placentia-Linda Hospital CFO for Tenet in Southern California, in addition to group CFO for the seven hospitals in Tenet’s Southern California Group with annual revenues of $1.7 billion.