PROVIDENCE – Care New England president and CEO Dr. James E. Fanale volition discontinue connected Dec. 1, astatine which clip Dr. Michael Wagner, a person with Tufts Medicine, volition instrumentality power of the state’s second-largest wellness attraction system.
“It is genuinely bittersweet to discontinue portion determination is inactive truthful overmuch enactment to beryllium done,” Fanale said successful an announcement from CNE. “However, the clip has travel for maine to walk the torch to idiosyncratic well-equipped to grip the challenges of operating a healthcare strategy of this magnitude.”
According to CNE, Fanale, Care New England's caput for astir 5 years, “intends to walk his well-earned status distant from the day-to-day operations of the engaged healthcare system, enjoying beingness with his woman Deb and his children.”
Wagner has been the Chief Physician Executive for Tufts Medicine, which CNE describes arsenic a “$2.2 cardinal starring integrated wellness system.” In that role, according to Care New England, Wagner “led the company’s doc enterprise, which includes the Tufts Medicine Integrated Network, Tufts Medicine Professional Group, and Quality and Patient Safety and Service Lines.”
Fanale announced his volition to discontinue earlier this year, successful the aftermath of the failed effort to merge CNE with Lifespan, the state’s largest wellness attraction system. Dr. Timothy J. Babineau, who led Lifespan for respective years, has already retired.
In a statement, CNE Board of Directors president Charles Reppucci praised Fanale’s service, saying that the outgoing main “faced obstacles that seemed, astatine times, insurmountable, including fiscal stresses and nationalist labour shortages, that were a effect of the planetary pandemic. Anyone tin pb a vessel done calms waters, but it takes a existent person to close it, and enactment the course, during unprecedented times, and that’s precisely what Jim did for us.”
Wagner is simply a postgraduate of Connecticut College and Georgetown University School of Medicine who completed a residency and main residency successful interior medicine astatine Dartmouth.
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