Plano, Tx., USA - October 8, 2013, Plano, Tx., USA - LHP Hospital Group, a provider of capital and expertise to hospital systems, announced that it has named John F. Holland as chief executive officer.
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Mr. Holland will also join the LHP Board of Directors. He joins LHP from Tenet Healthcare Corporation, where he was most recently Senior Vice President of Hospital Operations. Throughout his 30 year career long with Tenet, he had operating and strategic responsibility for eighteen Tenet facilities and held multiple leadership positions at both the hospital and regional levels.
Mr. Holland earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry and a master's degree in health administration from the University of North Carolina. He has also completed an executive program in business at Columbia University.
The company also announced that Dan Moen has been promoted to Executive Chairman of LHP's Board of Directors, while current Board Chairman James D. Shelton will continue serving in the capacity of lead director. Both appointments will be effective October 24, 2013.
Mr. Moen's, together with the rest of the LHP management team, has been involved in more than 70 percent of all the whole-hospital joint venture transactions between taxable and tax-exempt health systems in the nation over the past 20 years. Prior to joining LHP, he served as EVP of Development for Triad Hospitals, Inc., where he spearheaded the acquisition of all their new hospitals.
In 2001, Mr. Moen was named the CEO of the HIP Health Plan of Florida. Prior to this, he worked for Columbia Hospital Corporation (now HCA) from 1991 to 1998, first as the president of the South Florida Division. In 1994, he was named president of the Florida Group and, in 1996, he assumed the role of president of the Columbia Sponsored Network group and was responsible for the company's managed care subsidiaries.
Mr. Moen started his healthcare career with Humana in 1977 and worked there in positions of increasing responsibility for 14 years. At Humana, he managed hospitals in Virginia, West Virginia, Florida and Mexico, in addition to being responsible for Humana's managed care division. He holds BS and Master of Public Health degrees from Oklahoma University and an MBA from Southern Methodist University. he has over 35 years of experience in healthcare.
Early in his career, Mr. Shelton served as a hospital administrator in Illinois, Georgia, North Carolina, Iowa, Missouri and Louisiana. In 1986, he began working with multiple hospitals as regional vice president of National Medical Enterprises (NME). While at NME, he took on greater responsibility as senior vice president and executive vice president of the company.
In 1993, Mr. Shelton became president of the Central Group of Columbia/HCA where he had responsibility for 107 hospitals and 45 ambulatory surgery centers. In 1998, he reached an agreement with HCA to acquire a group of hospitals and form a new company, Triad Hospitals, Inc. (Triad), and served as chairman and CEO of this organization until it was sold in July 2007.
During his thirty-year tenure in healthcare, Mr. Shelton served on the Board of the Federation of American Hospitals for ten years (1991 – 2001) and as its chairman in 1999. He served a three-year term on the Board of the American Hospital Association (2004 – 2006), during which he was a member of the executive committee. From 2001 through 2006 and again in 2008, he was recognized by Modern Healthcare as one of the 100 most influential people in healthcare in America.
In addition to his role on the LHP Hospital Group Board of Directors, Mr. Shelton currently serves on the boards of Omnicare, Ventas,: Health Coverage Foundation, , The Henry's Fork Foundation, and the Wake Forest University Health Sciences Center. He is also the board chairman of the Four Corners Global Outreach project and he is a senior advisor to CCMP, a private equity firm in New York. ■