That was preceded by a fewer than two-year run as chief executive at Southern Inyo Hospital in Lone Pine, a community roughly 80 miles north of Ridgecrest on U.S. On his LinkedIn profile, Cotter lists his most recent job as "administrator of integration" at Ridgecrest Regional Hospital in neighboring Kern County, where he began in 2019. BLC Advisory focuses on "implementing restructuring projects to recover from COVID-19," the website states, by helping "healthcare organizations to achieve financial viability, quality service delivery and compliance." The press release said he was recently a speaker for the California School for Health Sciences "teaching international students about infection control, nursing, and leadership." The release added that he serves on the private school's board and has previously been on the board of the Hospital Association of Southern California.Ĭotter is currently listed as a "healthcare advisory services" consultant with BLC Advisory on the firm's website. Barstow Community's new chiefĬotter, who did not respond to a request for comment, has held numerous positions in Southern California’s healthcare industry prior to his arrival in Barstow. The move helped the company maintain ownership of Barstow Community Hospital. Quorum found that it could not pay off the debt it owed to more than 130 different lenders at an early stage of the health and economic crises that followed COVID-19's emergence, according to a court review of its bankruptcy. To avoid a shutdown of all the facilities it ran, Quorum struck a deal with the majority of those lenders to financially restructure the company, reducing its debt by about half-a-billion dollars. states when it restructured in April 2020. Quorum owned more than 30 hospitals, long-term care facilities and other healthcare providers in "rural and midsize markets" across 13 U.S. "California is home to me, and I’m honored to get to work alongside a team who is equally passionate about improving health outcomes for Californians," Cotter said in the press release.Ĭotter takes over in the wake of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy - and restructured revival - of a company that, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings, has owned Barstow Community Hospital since 1993: Quorum Health Corp. But in public statements, the new CEO is focusing more on the traditional value a hospital brings to a community. Now, the city's only hospital has a new chief executive, whose prior stints at financially troubled medical centers in rural communities indicate potential plans to cut costs and shore up cash.īarstow Community Hospital named Brian Cotter - a California native "with more than 30 years in healthcare and teaching positions," according to a hospital press release - as its CEO on June 21, ending roughly eight months of leadership for interim chief Suzanne Richards.Ĭotter taking the helm appears to suggest that Barstow Community Hospital seeks to improve its value as a financial asset. last year - helping to keep the lights on by obtaining a new loan from financiers in New York and the Cayman Islands. The Tennessee-based corporation that owns Barstow Community Hospital declared bankruptcy soon after COVID-19 arrived in the U.S.
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