Tenet Healthcare Corp., Orange County’s largest hospital operator, named chief executives last week to head three of its 10 local facilities.
Patrick Rafferty, chief operating officer at Doctor’s Medical Center in Modesto, becomes chief executive at Western Medical Center-Anaheim, effective March 5. Rafferty is a certified public accountant with some 20 years of hospital administration experience, including 12 years with Santa Barbara-based Tenet.
Rafferty is the first dedicated chief executive in 19 years at 193-bed Western Medical Center-Anaheim, according to Tenet officials. Western Medical Center-Anaheim had shared a chief executive, Mark Meyers, with Garden Grove Hospital and Medical Center. Meyers now becomes the full-time chief executive at Garden Grove.
“We have been able to grow the hospital’s level of service to the point where we need to have a chief administrator who has his complete focus on one hospital,” said Ken Westbrook, a Tenet senior regional vice president, in a statement.
Separately, Tenet appointed Kent Clayton chief executive of its Coastal Communities Hospital and Santa Ana Hospital Medical Center facilities. Clayton was chief operating officer at Tenet’s Irvine Regional Hospital and Medical Center before accepting his new job.
Clayton will be responsible for strategic, operational and clinical activities for both hospitals in his new positions. Coastal Communities, which is located in Santa Ana, has 177 beds, while Santa Ana has 105 beds.
