Jeffrey Sanders has been appointed interim president of Kent Hospital in Warwick, R.I., effective Sept. 29. Mr. Sanders will provide executive leadership while the hospital searches for a permanent president and COO, according to a Sept. 29 hospital news release shared with Becker’s. He will succeed Kent President and COO Paari Gopalakrishnan, MD, who was named president and CEO of Towson, Md.-based GBMC HealthCare. In that role, he oversaw Maine Medical Center, a 700-bed academic medical center and the state’s only children’s hospital, and Southern Maine Health Care, which includes a 135-bed rehabilitation hospital. Kent Hospital is a 359-bed acute care facility and Rhode Island’s second-largest hospital.