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Executive Moves

Portland-based MaineHealth has named Alex Keuroghlian, MD, as chief of MaineHealth Behavioral Health and chair of psychiatry at MaineHealth Maine Medical Center.  Dr. Keuroghlian will lead behavioral services across the MaineHealth system, and will oversee the system’s psychiatry teaching programs,…

Atlanta-based Perimeter Healthcare, a national operator of acute care psychiatric hospitals and residential treatment centers for all ages, named Steven Merahn, MD, enterprise chief medical officer. Dr. Merahn will support the company’s clinical operations and manage initiatives related to quality…

Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services has named Chris Beamish as service line executive of mental health and addiction care.  Mr. Beamish was most recently vice president of mental health and addiction services at Fairview, according to a news release shared with…

Knoxville, Tenn.-based Covenant Health has named Paul Smith as vice president of behavioral health.  Mr. Smith was most recently vice president of behavioral health at HCA Healthcare’s Corpus Christi (Texas) Medical Center, according to an April 23 news release.  In…

Memphis, Tenn.-based Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital has named Donald Bearden, PhD, as its first chief of pediatric psychology and behavioral health.  Dr. Bearden was previously a senior neuropsychologist and section director of psychology at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, according to…

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Dave Eldredge has been named executive director of the Huntsman Mental Health Institute.  According to an April 18 news release from University of Utah Health, Mr. Eldredge, a licensed clinical social worker, has more than 25 years of leadership experience…

Vancouver, Wash.-based Columbia River Mental Health Services has named Craig Pridemore interim CEO, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported April 3. Mr. Pridemore’s appointment marks a return to the facility, as he served as its CEO from 2014 to 2020, according to…

Aundrea Lewis, RN, has resigned as CEO of UofL Health-Peace Hospital in Louisville, Ky., effective April 18. Ms. Lewis has been with UofL Health for 18 years, more than two of which she served as CEO of the behavioral health…

Everett, Wash.-based Compass Health has named Janet Carbary as CFO.  Ms. Carbary was most recently vice president of finance at Mill Creek, Wash.-based IRG Physical and Hand Therapy, according to her LinkedIn profile. As CFO, Ms. Carbary will advance Compass…

Zobeida Diaz, MD, has been named division director of women’s behavioral health at Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, R.I.  Dr. Diaz has played a key role in Women & Infants’ mother-baby partial hospitalization program, and the hospitals’ peripartum psychiatric…

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