MU Health Care CEO stepping down this month

COLUMBIA, M. (KMIZ)

MU Health Care CEO Jonathan Curtright will go away his job on July 15.

Curtright is leaving to take a job in Oklahoma as COO at OU Health, MU Health stated in a information launch Tuesday. He has led MU Health Care since 2016.

Curtright has overseen a number of main MU Health Care tasks, together with the in-progress transfer of its kids’s hospital to the principle hospital campus close to downtown Columbia. He additionally oversaw the growth of scientific providers into north Columbia and Boonville.

University of Missouri Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs Nim Chinniah has been named the interim CEO, based on the information launch. Chinniah is the first deputy for scientific operations beneath Rick Barohn, MU’s govt vice chancellor for well being affairs. He has held management positions at different universities and has helped MU Health Care with strategic and monetary plans as a advisor, based on the discharge.

MU is hiring the manager search agency Spencer Stuart to look nationally for a brand new CEO, the well being system stated.