Regional CEO taking job in Biloxi, Miss.

YAKIMA, Wash. -- The leader of Yakima Regional Medical and Cardiac Center will be leaving at the end of next week to start a similar position at a Mississippi hospital within the same company.

Monte Bostwick, 34, has accepted the CEO job at Biloxi Regional Medical Center in Biloxi, Miss. Both Yakima Regional and Biloxi Regional are owned by Health Management Associates, a Naples, Fla.-based chain.

Bostwick said his last day will be April 30 and he will begin his new CEO post on May 3.

"It will be a great opportunity for me," Bostwick said in a phone interview this afternoon.

His departure will mark the end of his second stint in the Yakima Valley. He first arrived to the Valley in October 2003 to serve as CEO of Toppenish Community Hospital. He served in that post for more than two years and also managed Yakima Regional’s physician’s network on an interim basis.
He left Toppenish in December 2005 to run Gilmore Memorial Regional Medical Center in Amory, Miss.

He would bounce back to Yakima two years later to take the CEO post at Yakima Regional.

The hospital is already deep into a serve for Bostwick’s successor. A candidate, whose identity Bostwick would not reveal, will come to Yakima next week.

-- Mai Hoang