Santa Ana-based hospital operator Integrated Healthcare Holdings Inc. said Thursday that it named Kenneth Westbrook as its new president and chief executive.
Westbrook replaces Bruce Mogel, who stepped down last month but will remain with Integrated for several months as a consultant.
Westbrook was most recently a senior vice president at Tenet Healthcare Corp., the Dallas-based hospital operator that sold four Orange County hospitals to Integrated in 2005.
Integrated said in a release that Westbrook helped manage the ownership change of the hospitals and that it picked Westbrook because of his familiarities with the facilities and the Orange County market.
Integrated owns Western Medical Center-Anaheim, Western Medical Center-Santa Ana, Coastal Communities Hospital in Santa Ana and Chapman Medical Center in Orange.
The company has had to deal with several years of legal turmoil and infighting among executives and doctors.
