Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health has announced that Wright L. Lassiter III will succeed Lloyd H. Dean as its next CEO starting on August 1. Dean announced last fall that he would retire this year. Lassiter has been CEO of Henry Ford Health since 2016 and joined that health system as president in 2014. Lassiter is also the current board chair of the American Hospital
Wright Lassiter III, one of metro Detroit's most prominent health care CEOs, is leaving his role leading Henry Ford Health to take up the helm at one of the largest not-for-profit health systems in the country.
Lassiter, who has been CEO of the $6.6 billion Detroit-based system since 2016, will…