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John D. Birkmeyer, D-H’s executive vice president for integrated delivery systems and chief academic officer, will leave his post on Oct. 14, Chief Executive Officer James Weinstein said in an email to the D-H community this morning.
“As our health system continues to evolve to meet the health and health care needs of the people and communities we serve, change is an inevitable part of that process,” the email said.
“It was an honor to help lead clinical and academic affairs at D-H these last couple years, but this was the right time for us to go in different directions,” Birkmeyer said in an email to the Valley News today.
Birkmeyer was in the front lines of management at D-H during its takeover of hundreds of jobs involving Geisel School of Medicine employees in clinical research and the psychiatry department as they were moved from Dartmouth College.
Birkmeyer also was the D-H executive who met recently with some primary care doctors to explain the imposition of time standards that some saw as a retreat from a multi-year effort to reduce costs and improve care by giving such doctors more flexibility and greater responsibility for keeping patients healthy.
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Posted at 12:20 p.m. Find a full report in Wednesday’s Valley News.