Baptist Health names regional executive for service line development

Baptist Health recently named Jim Waters Jr., regional executive for service line development for Baptist Health Paducah and Madisonville.

Leadership responsibilities include cardiac, imaging and oncology services at Baptist Health Paducah.

Waters most recently served as service line director for three suburban Chicago campuses (Vanguard Westlake, West Suburban Hospitals and River Forest Medical Campus). Previously, he served as operations and marketing director for a physician practice; a sales representative for medical devices; and a technologist in cardiac cath and neuro-vascular imaging and interventional labs.

Waters has an associate degree in applied science radiologic technology from Moraine Valley College, Palos Hills, Ill.; and a bachelor’s degree in marketing management from Western Governors University. He is currently pursuing an MBA in healthcare management at Western Governors.