— Jeff Ward, Lehigh Valley News Briefs
Peter Castagna will retire as president and chief executive of Hospital Central Services and its Miller-Keystone Blood Center affiliate, Allentown-based HSC announced on its website.
Rami Nemeh, vice president and chief operating officer of Miller-Keystone, will succeed Castagna on Jan. 1.
Castagna told the organization’s board of directors earlier this year that he would retire after 11 years of leading HSC, according to a press release.
Hospital Central Services operates a linen business for healthcare institutions. Miller-Keystone accepts blood and plasma donations and operates a blood laboratory.
Nemeh immigrated to the United States 26 years according, according to an HSC press release, and started at Miller-Keystone as a lab technician. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry and a Pathologist Assistant degree from the University of Aleppo in Syria.
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