Lakeside Health System has announced the naming of an interim CFO.
Jim Cummings, Lakeside’s Senior Vice President of Human Resources, says Hugh H. Collins arrived Thursday, March 15 and has begun the transition process prior to the departure of Bridgett Reed later this month.
“Mr. Collins comes to Lakeside Health System with experience in positions as Interim CFO and Interim CEO in multiple health care organizations across the country,” Cummings said in a statement released March 16. “He has extensive experience in both expense control and revenue cycle management. In providing financial leadership to those organizations he has very successfully increased operating margins and therefore the sustainability of those organizations.”
Prior to holding various Interim CFO and CEO positions, Collins had a distinquished career spanning over 30 years in senior management positions including CFO, Executive Vice President Operations and COO at hospitals and health care facilities in Tennessee, Alabama, Pennsylvania, Illinois and North Carolina, Cummings said.
