Virginia Commonwealth University is arranging for the departure of wellness strategy CEO Dr. Art Kellermann, 3 sources told the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
On Monday, the assemblage notified Kellermann that helium won’t proceed arsenic the wellness system’s apical administrator. VCU gave him the enactment to resign, but it’s unclear if helium volition bash so.
A spokesperson for the assemblage said Kellermann is retired of the office, but the spokesperson did not elaborate. Dr. Marlon Levy is the acting wellness sciences elder vice president and CEO of VCU Health.
Employees were notified connected Monday. Kellermann declined to comment.
VCU announced it volition clasp a associated gathering of the assemblage committee of visitors and wellness strategy committee of directors connected Thursday. A bulk of some boards is required to occurrence the CEO.
Kellermann oversaw the wellness strategy during a tumultuous play successful which the infirmary became overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients, nurses departed and the assemblage was dealt a fiscal blow.
But it besides grew during his tenure, opening a caller downtown building, continuing operation connected different and launching a caller physics aesculapian record.
VCU Health, which employs much than 13,000 radical crossed 70 locations, hired Kellermann arsenic its person successful July 2020. In precocious 2021, the omicron question brought the highest influx of patients since the pandemic began, wearing staffers thin. Nurses near successful droves, forcing VCU Health to trust connected much costly question nurses.
Increased labour costs were a large contributor to VCU Health finishing the 2022 fiscal twelvemonth with a $56 cardinal fund deficit, astir 2% of its yearly budget. Health systems crossed the state person faced akin fiscal woes.
But VCU besides had moments of large progress. In December, it opened the astir $400 cardinal big outpatient pavilion. Around the aforesaid time, it transitioned to a caller physics aesculapian record, Epic. By utilizing the aforesaid bundle arsenic Bon Secours and hospitals crossed the country, VCU doctors tin present easy spot the aesculapian past of patients who person visited Bon Secours hospitals, and vice versa.
VCU besides moved guardant connected the operation of a 16-story children’s infirmary operation scheduled to unfastened successful the spring.
A fig of executives person travel and gone from VCU Health successful the past 2 years. Dr. Peter Buckley, formerly dean of the School of Medicine, resigned past year. He had served arsenic interim CEO earlier Kellermann came on. Kellermann replaced Dr. Marsha Rappley, who held the apical occupation for astir 4 years.
Buckley’s departure came days aft main accusation serviceman Susan Steagall said she would leave.
To capable retired the wellness system’s administration, VCU hired Michael Elliott arsenic main operating officer, James Siegel arsenic main fiscal serviceman and Michael Roussos arsenic president of VCU Medical Center.
Kellermann came to VCU from the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine astatine the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences successful Maryland, wherever helium was dean. His specialty is exigency medicine.
VCU President Michael Rao oversees some the assemblage and its wellness system.
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