Kaiser Permanente today promoted Janet Liang, head of its Hawaii region, to become chief operating officer of the much larger Northern California region, based in Oakland.
Kaiser also said that Mary Ann Barnes, senior vice president and area manager for San Diego, would replace Liang in Hawaii.
Both appointments take effect in June, but the “official transition” begins immediately.
Gregory Adams, Kaiser’s regional president for Northern California, noted in the statement that the sprawling 3.4 million member region is larger and more complex than Liang’s prior base of operations in Hawaii.
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Marc Brown, a Kaiser Northern California spokesman, told the Business Times that Liang is moving into a new position in the region’s senior leadership.
On Thursday, Kaiser announced another high-level changing of the guard, with new Chief Medical Officer Patrick Courneya, M.D., set to replace the retiring Dr. Jed Weissberg in early May.
The giant Oakland-based system didn’t explain if there was any link between the late-week flurry of changes in its senior ranks, both in California and in Hawaii. It has 9.1 million enrollees all told, about three-quarters of them in California.
Date: Mar 28, 2014