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CEO Staffing Changes

CEO Staffing Changes (April 21, 2023) – The Kansas Hospital Association would like to inform you of the latest member hospital administrator changes since our last hospital list printout in March:

  • Melissa Hall, interim chief executive officer | chief operating officer, Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital, El Dorado
  • James Blackwell, president and chief executive officer, Clara Barton Medical Center, Hoisington (leaving in June)
  • Amber Williams, chief executive officer, Southwest Medical Center, Liberal
  • Dawn Unruh, MSN-NE, PMC-HA, RN, chief executive officer, Meade District Hospital/Artesian Valley Health System, Meade
  • Heidi Pickerell, chief executive officer, F.W. Huston Medical Center, Winchester

Our Kansas Hospitals and Health-Related Facilities list is available on the KHA website in PDF (Adobe Acrobat Reader format) at www.kha-net.org. A username and password are required. Click on Kansas Hospitals, CEO Directories, Kansas Hospital List and Kansas Hospitals and Health-Related Facilities List. Please contact Cheryl Carson at (785) 233-7436 if you have updates and provide the start date of the new administrator/chief executive officer, picture, birthday and press release/bio.
--Cheryl Carson