St. John’s Health names interim CEO

St. John’s Health Board of Trustees voted yesterday to accept the resignation of Chief Executive Officer William Wagnon.
The Trustees named David Robertson as Interim CEO, effective immediately.  Robertson is a Victor, Idaho resident, and has served as a board advisor to St. John’s for the past 3 ½ years. He has spent his career working for, and, with community and rural hospitals such as St. John’s.
Beyond his 30-year career as a health systems CEO, he led three different health systems. That was followed by an additional 10 years as a senior executive in the nation’s largest member-driven health care performance improvement company working with non-profit hospitals.