Premier Health Partners, the largest health system in southwest Ohio, announced that its chief executive will be stepping down at the end of the year.
Thomas Breitenbach, 63, has led the health system since it was formed in 1995 with the merger of Miami Valley and Good Samaritan hospitals. Breitenbach will be succeeded by James Pancoast, the health system’s chief operating officer, on Jan. 1.
Breitenbach’s retirement means that both of the Dayton area’s major nonprofit health systems will be undergoing leadership changes at the same time, the Dayton Daily News reported. Kettering Health Network CEO Francisco Perez is scheduled to retire next year. Kettering is in the midst of looking for Perez’s replacement.
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In recent years, Breitenbach’s tenure was marked by disputes with health insurers over reimbursement rates. Premier reached a last-minute agreement in late December with Medical Mutual of Ohio to avert being dropped from the insurer’s network. Before that, Anthem dropped Premier in 2004, but the two reunited two years later. Last year, Humana dropped the health system.
