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San Ramon Regional Medical Center is set to be under new leadership starting in November, with the CEO from a fellow Tenet Healthcare hospital in the Central Valley set to move to the San Ramon Valley as the hospital’s permanent leader.
Tenet officials announced Tuesday that Dr. Murali Naidu, current CEO of Emanuel Medical Center in Turlock, will take the reins from interim San Ramon Regional CEO Beenu Chadha effective Nov. 4, with the latter retaining her role as the hospital’s chief financial officer following the transition.
“I think San Ramon Regional might be the best secret in the East Bay,” Naidu said in Tenet’s announcement this week.
“It’s more than the leading-edge medicine, like being the first hospital west of the Mississippi to have the da Vinci surgical robot, and more than the highly decorated maternity programs,” he continued. “What makes San Ramon Regional special is the feeling of community both inside and outside the doors. One thing I loved about my previous two hospitals was that the teams there really cared about each other and the patients, and I could sense that here, right away.”
Naidu will be coming into the role with existing connections to the Bay Area, having earned a bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley and currently serving on the Board of Trustees for Oakland’s Head Royce School. He is also on the Board of Directors for the Hospital Council of Northern and Central California.
SRRMC has been without a permanent leader since October 2022, when former CEO Ann Lucena resigned after approximately 4-1/2 years on the job, including the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Lucena was succeeded on an interim basis first by Warren Kirk, then by Chadha when Kirk retired in June 2023.
Naidu’s appointment to the permanent CEO role comes following the dissolution of an acquisition deal that was previously being pursued by Tenet Healthcare and John Muir Health, which would have placed SRRMC under the latter’s ownership.
That deal was terminated in December 2023 in the face of federal and state lawsuits from the Federal Trade Commission and California Attorney General Rob Bonta aimed at blocking the move on allegations that it created a monopoly for emergency healthcare in the I-680 corridor. The termination means that Tenet continues to own a majority of SRRMC, with John Muir Health retaining the 49% stake in the hospital that it invested $100 million for in 2013.
