{"id":357703,"date":"2015-05-28T11:36:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T16:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=357703"},"modified":"2015-05-29T11:36:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T16:36:02","slug":"longview-regional-ceo-headed-to-new-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=357703","title":{"rendered":"Longview Regional CEO Headed to New Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/ceo_1432830086587_842832_ver1.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/ceo_1432830086587_842832_ver1.0-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ceo_1432830086587_842832_ver1.0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-357704\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8212; Jim Kendrick, chief executive officer of Longview Regional Medical Center, has resigned his position effective the end of July to accept a newly created position as Network CEO for 10 Community Health Systems-affiliated hospitals in Oklahoma.  That&#8217;s according to KETK.  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This was not an easy decision because we have accomplished so much at Longview Regional and opportunities still exist to advance the care we provide the community,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Kendrick. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There is a solid infrastructure in place to continue the vision we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve established and a leadership team that will support its success. I will miss all of Longview\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s talented employees, volunteers, board members and medical staff and wish them all the best in the future.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>During Kendrick\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 10 years at Longview, he championed the development of key service lines and worked in close collaboration with the medical staff and employees to enhance patient care services, according to hospital officials. He also led the organization through an expansion that almost doubled the number of licensed beds, added a new 21-bed NICU and remodeled all existing patient rooms.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jim has been an outstanding hospital executive and community leader for Longview, and he will be missed,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Tim Vaughn, Longview Regional Medical Center Board of Trustees Chairman. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153His operational and leadership experience will be a tremendous asset to the Oklahoma hospitals as they come together as a network.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  Officials say he board of trustees, members of the medical staff, and members of the administration will immediately begin the search to identify a permanent CEO for Longview Regional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; Jim Kendrick, chief executive officer of Longview Regional Medical Center, has resigned his position effective the end of July to accept a newly created position as Network CEO for 10 Community Health Systems-affiliated hospitals in Oklahoma. That&#8217;s according to KETK. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This was not an easy decision because we have accomplished so much at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=357703\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview Regional CEO Headed to New Job<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":357704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 16:19:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357710,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357703\/revisions\/357710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/357704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}