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Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires, Exits and Layoffs

February has seen a slew of executive hires, exits and layoffs across the healthcare industry. For example, health tech companies like Cadence and Bamboo Health hired new C-suite leaders, and providers like Mass General Brigham and Corewell Health announced rounds of job cuts.

By Katie Adams on February 28, 2025 6:53 pm
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This roundup is published monthly. It is meant to highlight some of healthcare’s recent hiring news and is not intended to be comprehensive. If you have news about an executive appointment, resignation or layoff that you would like to share for this roundup, please reach out to moves@medcitynews.com.

Hires

Healthcare software company Bamboo Health (Opens in a new window) welcomed Ross Armstrong as its new chief commercial officer. He most recently served as chief commercialization officer of Biofourmis (Opens in a new window), a company providing remote patient monitoring technology and digital therapeutics that was acquired (Opens in a new window) by ActiGraph last month. Before that, Armstrong held leadership roles at value-based care enablement company Lumeris (Opens in a new window).

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German drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim (Opens in a new window) hired Brian Hilberdink as its new president of U.S. human pharma. He joins the company from LEO Pharma, where he served as executive vice president. Prior to that, he spent more than 25 years working at Novo Nordisk (Opens in a new window).

Remote patient monitoring company Cadence (Opens in a new window) welcomed Eve Cunningham (Opens in a new window) as chief medical officer. She comes to the company from Washington-based Providence, where she served as chief of virtual care and digital health. Cunningham, who began her career as a practicing OB/GYN, is also the co-founder of MedPearl (Opens in a new window), a Providence-inclubated clinical decision platform.

Sutter Health (Opens in a new window) named Matthew Solomon as its first-ever chief scientific officer. In this role, Solomon will focus on advancing the health system’s research efforts and medical education initiatives. He joins Sutter from The Permanente Medical Group (Opens in a new window), where he most recently served as assistant director of the augmented clinical intelligence program.

Promotions

CommonSpirit Health at Home (Opens in a new window) promoted Charlotte Haisch to the role of COO. She joined the company in 2020, having most recently served as regional vice president of operations. Prior to CommonSpirit, Haisch spent nearly 35 years at Dignity Health (Opens in a new window), serving most recently as director of its home and hospice division.

Care coordination company Watershed Health (Opens in a new window) named Effie Carlson as its new CEO. She began working at Watershed in 2021 as chief strategy officer. Chip Grant, Watershed’s founder who held the CEO role before Carlson, is transitioning to executive chair and chief medical officer.

Exits

Don George, who has served as CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont (Opens in a new window) for more than 16 years, announced his plans to retire at the end of the year. He spent a total of 32 years working at the company. BCBS Vermont said it will conduct a national search for its next CEO.

Michael Restuccia, CIO of Penn Medicine (Opens in a new window), retired after nearly 20 years working at the health system. He began serving in the CIO role in 2006. Penn Medicine has not named his successor yet.

Phoenix Children’s (Opens in a new window) CEO Robert Meyer announced plans to retire this summer after holding the hospital’s top executive position for 22 years. The health system said it plans to launch a national search for its next CEO.

Craig Kent resigned as CEO of UVA Health (Opens in a new window) following an independent investigation into the health system, the findings of which were recently presented to the University of Virginia’s board. His departure comes months after a no-confidence letter (Opens in a new window) signed by 128 faculty members accused him and the medical school dean of creating a toxic work environment and harming patient safety. Dr. Kent, who led UVA Health since 2020, will be replaced on an interim basis by  Dr. Mitch Rosner.

Layoffs

Massachusetts-based health system Baystate Health (Opens in a new window) eliminated 98 corporate positions (Opens in a new window), which affected less than 1% of the health system’s workforce. The job cuts are part of a $225 million transformation plan the health system launched in November to streamline operations, focus on strategic growth and improve financial resilience.

Corewell Health (Opens in a new window) laid off more than 160 employees (Opens in a new window) working in coding and billing. The Michigan-based health system said the changes aim to support long-term financial stability while continuing to provide high-quality patient care.

Mass General Brigham (Opens in a new window), the largest private employer in Massachusetts, is conducting the biggest round of layoffs in its history. The health system plans to eliminate hundreds (Opens in a new window) of nonclinical roles in an effort to prepare for an expected budget shortfall of $250 million over the next two years. Mass General Brigham said is “acting now to allow [it] to continue with planned and future investments.”

Weight loss company Noom (Opens in a new window) is laying off an undisclosed number of employees. The company said (Opens in a new window) the job cuts are a result of “a revenue mix shift within the Noom business towards [its] fast-growing GLP-1-related products.” Noom conducted (Opens in a new window) a round of layoffs in February of 2024 as well.