After five years leading several University of Massachusetts system hospitals, healthcare executive Deborah Weymouth is making her return to Connecticut, this time as leader of Eastern Connecticut Health Network.
Weymouth will succeed Michael Collins, who is retiring after approximately three years as CEO of for-profit ECHN, which includes Manchester Memorial and Rockville General hospitals.
Since 2014, Weymouth has led UMass Memorial Health Alliance-Clinton Hospital, which includes several campuses in north central Massachusetts.
Prior to that, she spent several years in the Western Connecticut Health Network as a senior vice president. Her longest healthcare stint, according to her LinkedIn profile, was 15 years at UR Thompson Health in Rochester, N.Y.
UMass announced Weymouth’s departure in August, but did not disclose where she was headed.
“I’m excited at this opportunity to partner with our 3,000 employees and physicians, as well as with the leaders and residents of the communities we service, to further ECHN’s mission and build on the work that Michael and the talented ECHN leadership team have already accomplished,” Weymouth said in a statement Monday.
Weymouth’s appointment comes as ECHN’s owner, Prospect Medical Holdings, is in the midst of a bid to acquire Day Kimball Healthcare in Putnam.
That would be Prospect’s fourth hospital in Connecticut, where it also owns Waterbury Hospital. Prospect has said Day Kimball would keep its not-for-profit status.
