2 Named to New Roles at Cohen Medical Center

The North Shore-LIJ Health System has announced the appointment of Kevin M. McGeachy, FACHE, as executive director at the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center (CCMC) of New York.

He succeeds Arthur Klein, MD, who continues as the health system’s senior vice president of children's services, but is also now serving as North Shore-LIJ’s western regional executive director, a position in which he has oversight of all health system facilities in western Queens, Manhattan and Staten Island.

For the past two years, Mr. McGeachy has served as CCMC's deputy executive director. Before joining CCMC, he was associate executive director at three different North Shore-LIJ hospitals: at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset from 2005 to 2009, LIJ Medical Center from 2004 to 2005, and Forest Hills Hospital from 2001 to 2004. He began his career at the North Shore-LIJ Health System in 1998 as part of an internal consulting group charged with examining integration opportunities among the various entities of the health system.

Before joining the health system, Mr. McGeachy served as the director of health policy for the Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council, an advocacy group representing hospitals on Long Island. He began his career at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan in a variety of positions within the Division of Ambulatory Care.

He holds an MBA from Baruch College/Mount Sinai School of Medicine and received his bachelor’s degree from the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University program in health administration. He is also a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Dr. Klein joined North Shore-LIJ and CCMC in March 2009. In his new role as regional executive director, he will have administrative oversight of Lenox Hill Hospital, the Manhattan Eye Ear and Throat Institute, Staten Island University Hospital’s North and South Sites, and the proposed Center for Comprehensive Care in Lower Manhattan. He will also focus on building physician partnerships and looking for new opportunities for growth and investment.

Before joining North Shore-LIJ, Dr. Klein was senior vice president and chief physician officer at Lifespan Corporation, Providence, RI, where he was also the associate dean for strategy and special projects at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

He served previously as executive vice president and chief operating officer at the New York Presbyterian Healthcare System, and as executive vice chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, where he completed his residency and fellowship in pediatric cardiology. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Cardiology, and has written and presented extensively on pediatric cardiology.

He received his medical degree from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, and a bachelor’s degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA.