Santa Ana-based hospital operator Integrated Healthcare Holdings Inc. said Thursday it named Kenneth Westbrook as its 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 most recently was 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 Orange County.
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 as it has worked to turn the hospitals around.
*For more on Integrated, see a prior story
in the Business Journal.
