TUPELO — Shane Spees, who has served as the chief executive for Baptist Health System since 2007, will take the reins of the Tupelo-based North Mississippi Health Services on Jan. 2.
Spees succeeds John Heer who resigned after leading the system for nine years.
NMHS board chairman Robin McGraw tells the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal says Spees’ work with Birmingham, Ala.-based BHS has prepared him well to lead the local six-hospital system.
Spees earned undergraduate and legal degrees at the University of Mississippi. He also earned a master’s degree in health care administration from the University of Houston-Clear Lake.
Spees began his health care career at Memorial Hermann Healthcare System in Houston in 1995. In 2004, he became the president of Valley Baptist Hospital which serves Texas’ Rio Grande Valley.
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