Southern California Hospitals Announce Executive Transitions

Simi Valley Hospital and White Memorial Medical Center recently made several executive shifts. As Cliff Patten, senior vice president at SVH, resigned after completing construction on the new patient tower, Mark Newmyer accepted the position of senior vice president of Strategic Operations at the facility. Roland Fargo succeeds Newmyer as WMMC’s new vice president for Business Development.

“We are pleased to welcome Mark Newmyer to SVH as our new vice president of Strategic Operations and Business Development,” said Darwin Remboldt, president and CEO of the facility. “Mark brings more than two decades of health care leadership to our organization. His skills and experience with business development and operations management will be invaluable to the organization.”

For the past 12 years, Newmyer has served as vice president of Business Development at WMMC where his responsibilities included leading out in the development of strategic plans including cardiovascular and orthopedic product lines that will be supported by a $14 million state-of-the-art imaging and ambulatory surgery center that will open in coming months. Newmyer’s work also included executive oversight of occupational medicine, senior services, school and college based clinics, and physician recruitment.

Additional accomplishments included achieving significant growth in overall hospital business volumes, strengthening and building clinical excellence, improving medical staff relations, developing a customer loyalty culture, and developing an integrated call center that provides seamless PBX, physician referral, and outpatient registration and scheduling services.

“We’re proud to welcome Roland onto our executive team. He is a talented health care leader with strong clinical experience and business expertise,” said Beth Zachary, president and CEO of WMMC.

Fargo will continue the hospital’s focus on building regionally recognized specialty services in cardiovascular, orthopedic and neurosciences. He will see the outpatient diagnostic imaging and surgery centers through completion, and continue to facilitate access to the hospital’s core services for the community.

For more than six years Fargo has made WMMC his professional home. In his most recent role as a service line director, Fargo led the hospital through an unprecedented growth in orthopedic services. He expanded the staff of orthopedic specialists from three to 16 surgeons and increased volume from 600 to 1,800 cases per year. Additionally, he established a full-service, accredited vascular lab and built a peripheral vascular intervention program. Lastly, Fargo provided operational leadership of occupational medicine and rehabilitation services.