Vista Medical Center East has also been facing a whirlwind of financial problems since losing its Level 2 trauma designation in February of 2024. That trauma designation was reinstated a month later.

He was the CEO of what was then Victory Memorial Hospital and is now Vista Medical Center East. “He said, ‘I understand you are in respiratory care. We need a director of respiratory care.

Longtime Vista Medical Center East executive Kim Needham is taking the role of chief executive officer at the troubled Waukegan hospital. Needham, previously assistant CEO and chief operating ...