A family physician who recently headed a group of four hospitals in Virginia has been tapped as the next CEO of MaineHealth.
The state’s largest health care system said in a news release Thursday that Dr. Andrew T. Mueller will succeed Bill Caron, who has been a leader of MaineHealth since its founding in 1988. In October 2019 he announced that he would retire at the end of 2020, but postponed the transition because of demands created by the pandemic.
Mueller is expected to start at MaineHealth in late spring, according to the release. On Tuesday, he resigned from his role as president and CEO of Centra Health, a nonprofit health care system in Lynchburg, Va., with 8,500 employees.