LG Health announces hiring of John Herman as new CEO
Herman will succeed Jan L. Bergen, who announced her retirement last August, on March 1, LG Health said.
Credit: Penn Medicine LG Health Author: Keith Schweigert (FOX43) Updated: 10:27 AM EST January 7, 2021
LANCASTER, Pa. John J. Herman has been hired as the new chief executive officer of Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, the University of Pennsylvania Health System announced Thursday.
Herman will succeed Jan L. Bergen, who announced her retirement last August, on March 1.
Bergen will remain with LG Health until March 30 to ensure a smooth leadership transition, the healthcare system said in a press release.
A New Orleans hospital executive has been selected to succeed Jan L. Bergen as the CEO of Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, Lancaster Countyâs dominant health system and largest employer.
Her replacement is John J. Herman, it was announced Thursday by LG Healthâs parent, the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
Herman, age 52, will begin his new job March 1. He has been CEO of the North Shore Region for the Ochsner Health system in New Orleans since May 2018.
In that role, Herman leads Ochsner Healthâs network of owned or financially integrated hospitals, multispecialty ambulatory centers and more than 110 clinics on the North Shore in Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. These employ more than 6,000 people.
Understand the scope of alcohol and cocaine use and their effects on ED visits;
Comprehend the various routes of administration and effects of alcohol ingestion;
Demonstrate knowledge of cocaine use and overdose interventions;
Understand recent ‘designer drugs’ and chemically modified narcotics.
Drug overdoses are routinely seen in trauma bays and emergency departments worldwide. The increasingly complex methods employed to develop and consume drugs make detection of side effects and potential interactions with other drugs difficult. Common substances of abuse are now being ingested in alternative, more hazardous ways, while designer drugs are being chemically modified to enhance their euphoric effects. These various modifications have rendered modern drug screening tests almost obsolete, placing medical professionals in a formidable position.
While some were out celebrating the new year, others were going into labor.
These are the first babies of the 2021 in Pennsylvania.
Baby girl Moyer was born at 12:06 a.m., at WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon. She weighed 7 pounds 4 ounces, and measured 20 inches long.
At 7:43 a.m., Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health welcome its first baby at Women and Babies Hospital.
Locklen Stephen Wilson weighed 8 pounds 5 ounces, and measured 20 inches long. His parents are Janell and Max Wilson of Myerstown, PA, and big sisters are Gracie and Collyns.
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