Dr. Scott Boston, who has guided Jacksonville Memorial Hospital for much than 3 years arsenic its president and CEO, is stepping down from that relation adjacent month.
The hospital's manager of Ambulatory Services, Trevor Huffman, volition presume the hospital's enactment role.
Boston was the hospital's main aesculapian serviceman and an exigency medicine doc erstwhile helium was named president successful 2019. He plans to instrumentality to practicing medicine aft Feb. 28, according to the Jacksonville Memorial Hospital committee of directors. Boston was exigency country aesculapian manager from 2012 to 2015 and adjunct aesculapian manager of the exigency section astatine Springfield Memorial Hospital from 2011 to 2013.
He joined the aesculapian unit astatine Jacksonville Memorial Hospital, past Passavant Area Hospital, successful 2004.
Memorial Health Hospital Group President Charles Callahan praised Boston's work and his enactment of the Jacksonville infirmary done the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Under Dr. Boston’s leadership, JMH has successfully managed aggregate surges of the COVID-19 pandemic, and adopted a caller marque logo and naming identity. Dr. Boston has enhanced infirmary operations, and has been a person for agrarian assemblage health," Callahan said successful a statement. "He has served with favoritism during these bonzer times and we privation him the champion going forward."
Boston is simply a board-certified exigency medicine physician.
"I’m grateful for the clip I’ve spent arsenic person of JMH and arrogant of each we’ve achieved together," Boston said. "It’s been an grant to enactment alongside truthful galore talented wellness attraction professionals, each with the aforesaid committedness to serving Jacksonville and Morgan County."
Maryjane Bradbury, seat of the Jacksonville Memorial Hospital committee of directors, said Huffman has a agelong past of work to the assemblage and to the hospital.
"I’m assured helium is the champion person to proceed our enactment to amended the wellness of the radical and communities we serve," she said.
Huffman joined the Jacksonville infirmary successful 1998, starting arsenic coordinator of outreach services and starring its Ambulatory Services since 2019.
He received a bachelor's grade successful carnal therapy from Maryville University successful 1994, a master's grade successful wellness and carnal acquisition from Illinois State University successful 1996, and an enforcement maestro of concern medication grade from the University of Missouri, Columbia, successful 2020.
He besides is simply a chap of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
"Trevor Huffman has galore years of acquisition not lone arsenic a leader, but arsenic a supplier of diligent care," Callahan said. "He has not lone a decades-long committedness to the well-being of the community, but besides the position and expertise to pb JMH contiguous and successful the years to come."
Huffman said helium hopes to proceed the successes Jacksonville Memorial Hospital has seen implicit the years, optimize its abilities arsenic a captious entree infirmary and proceed to turn to conscionable the hospital's mission.
He and his wife, Monica, unrecorded successful agrarian Jacksonville and person 5 children. He serves connected the committee of directors for Prairieland United Way.
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