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Mercy Health names new CEO

The Mercy Health System of Southeastern Pennsylvania named David Clark, a Utah hospital executive, as its new president and chief executive, effective April 2. Clark will join Mercy, which is based in Conshohocken and is part of Catholic Health East, from Intermountain Healthcare in Provo, where he was regional vice president and chief executive for three hospitals and related services.

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The Mercy Health System of Southeastern Pennsylvania named David Clark, a Utah hospital executive, as its new president and chief executive, effective April 2. Clark will join Mercy, which is based in Conshohocken and is part of Catholic Health East, from Intermountain Healthcare in Provo, where he was regional vice president and chief executive for three hospitals and related services.

Intermountain is a nonprofit systems with 22 hospitals. Clark takes over from H. Ray Welch Jr., Catholic Health East's executive vice president of ministry operations who has also been leading Mercy since August 2010.

Welch cited Clark's success in working with physicians as one reason Clark was selected. Mercy has four hospitals in the Philadelphia region.

- Harold Brubaker