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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.
Penn Medicine s frontline health workers and researchers have begun receiving COVID-19 vaccinations including the Penn scientists whose findings on mRNA technology laid the groundwork for the vaccines to be developed.
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.
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An unknown author commented that if necessity is the mother of invention, desperation is its father. As I reflect upon the year 2020, it is unequivocally highlighted and underscored as the most significant year in my lifetime thus far regarding the healthcare industry s response to the desperation generated by the coronavirus.
In terms of the necessity of invention and attacking back on this viral threat from a technology perspective, innovative agility was relentlessly applied in such a short time frame, otherwise never imagined.
Many healthcare information services teams were quickly called to rise up to the occasion of supporting our caregivers and patients. Colleagues embraced an attitude of solidarity and embodied characteristics of being agile, pivoting at a moment s notice, and maintaining resilience.