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Yale New Haven Health CEO Marna Borgstrom plans to retire next spring, and will be replaced in the regional hospital system’s top role by current YNHH President and former Hospital of Saint Raphael CEO Christopher O’Connor.

Borgstrom and O’Connor made that changing-of-the-guard announcement Wednesday afternoon during a virtual Zoomed press conference and in separate email press releases sent out by the hospital system.

Borgstrom, who has worked for YNHH since 1979 and who has led the regional hospital system as CEO since 2005, has been a regular public presence throughout the pandemic, Zooming in alongside top YNHH doctors during biweekly press conferences about Covid-19.

She played a leading role in the planning and construction of YNHH’s Children’s Hospital and Smilow Cancer Hospital, planning for a new neuroscience center in town, and the health system’s dramatic growth. YNHH includes seven ho