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Hire
Behavioral healthcare provider Acadia Health It abruptly brought back Debra Osteen as its CEO, replacing Chris Hunter and immediately taking the helm as the company faces a sharp stock decline and mounting legal and financial challenges. Osteen previously led Acadia from 2018 to 2022, and before that, she was an executive at Universal Health Services.
Clinical Decision Support Startup aidoc welcomed Jesse Ehrenfeld as its new medical director. Ehrenfeld, an anesthesiologist by training, is the past president of the American Medical Association.
Health consulting chartis added Sara Vaezy as chief product and technology officer. Last year she ended her decade-long stint at Providence and said goodbye to her role as chief transformation officer.
writing platform Heidi Health hired Nancy Cibotti as its U.S. chief medical information officer. She joined the company from Beth Israel Lahey Health in Boston, where she served as chief primary care innovation officer.
Electronic prescription and medication management platform DrFirst appointed Valerie Mondelli as its new commercial director. He has held this title previously, at Iodine Software and RevSpring. Prior to that, he held leadership positions at companies such as Eli Lilly, McKesson and Verisys.
MedeAnalyticsa healthcare data analytics company, welcomed David Figueredo as its chief innovation officer. He joined the company from Experian, where he served as vice president of innovation.
health data platform Particle health hired Abhi Sindhwani as its first chief growth officer. He joined the organization from the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH), where he was vice president of sales and growth enablement.
Ambient AI Home suki added Abhi Pathak as its first product manager. He came to the company from the healthcare navigation company Accolade, where he held the same position. Prior to that, he held leadership roles at PlushCare, Dropbox, and Amazon.
Promotions
kidney care company Interwell Healthnow an operating segment of Fresenius Medical Care, named Carney Taylor as chief medical officer. He will succeed George Hart, who retired on January 1 and will continue to advise the company during the transition. Taylor, a nephrologist by training, joined Fresenius in 2020.
Company benefits VSP Vision named Dave Plevyak chief insurance officer. He joined the company in 2016 as senior vice president of financial planning and analysis.
Layoffs
Hennepin Health Minnesota is eliminating five medical programs and about 100 full-time positions as a result of a $50 million budget shortfall.
BCBS New Jersey Horizon is laying off 242 employees as part of a broader restructuring effort. The insurer laid off about 8% of its workforce last year.
pharmaceutical giant Takeda is cutting 243 jobs in 47 states, primarily affecting its neuroscience sales force as the company prepares for the upcoming loss of patent exclusivity for its depression drug Trintellix.
Therapeutic Tessera is laying off 90 employees (about 35% of its workforce) in several states as the gene-editing biotech restructures and reorients its operations.
Based in Michigan Health Trinidad is eliminating 10.5% of staff from its revenue cycle. The health system is outsourcing that work to a vendor as part of a cost-cutting plan driven by financial pressures such as low reimbursements and rising expenses.