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Sovereign Bank has appointed Christopher Buchholz as managing director and regional office executive for the Connecticut middle market team in the bank’s corporate banking division. Buchholz joined Sovereign in October 2011 as senior vice President and has more than 35 years of experience in the banking industry. He has served as executive vice president at Rockville Bank and as senior vice president and market executive in the commercial banking group at Bank of America and predecessor banks. Buchholz will be based in Hartford. He has served as a member of the State Board of Examiners for Environmental Professionals since 2008 and is both a corporator of Eastern Connecticut Health Network and a trustee of the ECHN Community Health Care Foundation, Inc.
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Stephen W. Larcen has been named CEO of Windham Hospital, a 130-bed acute care facility in Willimantic. For the past six months, Larcen had been serving in that role on an interim basis. He will continue to serve as president and chief executive officer of Natchaug Hospital in Mansfield. Both hospitals are part of Hartford HealthCare. Larcen is a member of the management committee and former president of Behavioral Health Connecticut LLC, and is active in the Connecticut Hospital Association. Also, David C. Klein, vice president of community programs at Natchaug Hospital, will also transition from an interim role to a permanent one. He had been serving as Natchaug’s interim chief operating officer for the past six months and is now its permanent COO. He has been president and CEO of Natchaug since 1990 and took on the role of vice president of behavioral health for HHC in 1997. Among his previous positions, he served as vice president of operations of Cumberland Health Systems in Nashville, Tenn.; CEO of Northwest Medical Center in Knoxville, Tenn.; and executive director of United Services, a mental health center in Dayville.
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Bankers’ Bank Northeast has hired Crystal Sides as senior vice president/enterprise manager. She moves to the Glastonbury-based correspondent bank from The Guilford Savings Bank where she was senior trust officer and senior vice president. Bankers’ Bank Northeast serves more than 200 community depository institutions throughout New England, New York State and New Jersey.
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Cynthia Forbes has joined Union Savings Bank on Danbury as commercial services administrative officer. In this position, Forbes will prepare commercial loan and mortgage documents and provide administrative support to assigned loan officers. She began her banking career as a teller at New Milford Bank and Trust Company and worked her way up to assistant branch manager. She continued as an assistant branch manager at Summit Bank and Fleet Bank and, most recently, was a small business specialist and business banking sales and support associate at Bank of America.
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Hank Waltmire has joined St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center as the director of the Center for Health Equity and the Curtis D. Robinson Men’s Health Institute. Most recently, he served as the chairman and lead pastor at The Fellowship, a multicultural faith-based congregation in Garden City, Ga. He has more than 10 years of full-time ministry, serving mostly in Connecticut. Before his ministerial career, Waltmire worked 12 years in the healthcare industry, including as sales manager for Sanofi-Aventis in Connecticut and parts of eastern New York. The Center for Health Equity is dedicated to reducing healthcare disparities and developing cultural competence in healthcare provision. The Curtis D. Robinson Men’s Health Institute is a partnership between St. Francis and Hartford-area, faith-based and community organizations aimed at improving the health of the community.
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Carol Frances has been named marketing director for CzepigaDalyDillman, an estate planning and elder law firm in Newington. She will lead the firm’s efforts to promote the firm’s elder law specialty and strengthen connections with people in the community who are facing the Medicaid application and estate planning process. Most recently, she directed marketing activities for an event production firm in East Hartford.
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Will Menoche has been promoted to director dining operations for the Jerome Home and Arbor Rose community. He is also providing consultant work at Southington Care Center to better align the senior care communities.
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Crystal Rock LLC has promoted four to leadership positions at the Watertown supplier of water, coffee and office products. Peter Guildner has been promoted to vice president of sales and marketing. He’s been with the company since 2005. Cheryl Gustafson has been promoted to vice-president of human resources. She began her Crystal Rock career in 2000 and is responsible for 360 employees across 13 branches in five states. Tim Descoteaux has been promoted to vice president of procurement. He joined the firm as a service technician repairing equipment in 1989 and has worked in service and route sales, and later, management of Crystal Rock’s service department, warehouse facilities and truck loading. David Jurasek has been promoted to vice president of finance. He was hired in 1995 as controller.
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CancerCare has named Eileen Webel as the clinical supervisor of its Norwalk office. Webel had been an oncology social worker with the national nonprofit organization, which is dedicated to providing financial aid and free counseling to cancer patients and their caregivers.
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