BOSTON – Caritas Christi Health Care, the Catholic health care system that includes Saint Anne’s Hospital in Fall River, last week announced the first members of a new executive management team brought in by recently appointed CEO Dr. Ralph de la Torre.
Effective immediately, the company said, Joseph Maher will serve as general counsel and executive vice president of governmental affairs. Dr. Tim Crowley has been appointed senior vice president of physicians and network development. And Brian Carty is chief marketing officer.
Maher is “one of the top health care lawyers in New England” and has vast experience in governmental affairs, according to a news release. He has been partner-in-charge of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge’s Boston office, chaired the firm’s health care practice, and chaired the governmental affairs practice at both Foley Hoag, and EAPD.
Maher also has been involved in many of the region’s largest hospital merger transactions and has been active in the creation of many hospital-physician ventures. As vice chairman of University Hospital board of trustees, he was instrumental in negotiations to create Boston Medical Center, and as a board member, he was instrumental in merging Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Faulkner Hospital.
Crowley spent 12 years as medical director of Mount Auburn Health Care, presiding over dramatic growth and improved financial performance. He co-founded ECS/Crowley Medical holdings, a practice management consulting firm, and most recently, as chief of network development at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s Cardiovascular Institute, he oversaw the recruitment of specialists and developed relationships with hundreds of primary care physicians from Providence to Portland, Maine.
He will now oversee Caritas Christi Physician Network and Caritas Christi Network Services.
Carty has served as president of three advertising agencies including Hill Holliday in Boston, which represented clients including Verizon Wireless, Fidelity Investments, Dunkin’ Donuts, and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.
Carty also served as CEO of Wheelhouse Corp., a highly successful service marketing company during the Internet boom. And under Gov. Michael Dukakis, he was CEO of the Massachusetts Industrial Finance Agency, the state’s investment bank. Carty has also been the global-partner-in-charge of marketing at Coopers & Lybrand.
“One of my top priorities as the leader of Caritas is to assemble a team of talented executives who will further unite our system and build upon our reputation for exceptional care,” de la Torre said in a news release. “I am confident these newly appointed leaders will share my team approach to management and will help drive substantial growth for Caritas going forward.”
Caritas Christi Health Care is the second-largest health care system in New England, caring for more than 1 million patients per year. It operates Caritas Good Samaritan Medical Center, Brockton; Caritas Norwood Hospital, Norwood; Caritas Carney Hospital, Dorchester; Caritas Holy Family Hospital and Medical Center, Methuen; Saint Anne’s Hospital, Fall River; and Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Boston.
Caritas Christi also operates a 400-physician group practice, an academic medical research institute, a health sciences college, a clinical laboratory network, centers for hospice and home care, and an international medical services agency for the poor.
For more information, visit www.caritaschristi.org .
