LifePoint Health and its Board of Directors announced that current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) William F. Carpenter III (Bill) will retire upon completion of the company's pending merger with RCCH HealthCare Partners, which is anticipated to occur later this year. Following his retirement, Carpenter will join the merged organization's Board of Directors. David Dill, the Company's current president and chief operating officer (COO), will assume the role of CEO for LifePoint upon Carpenter's retirement.

Carpenter has served as CEO since 2006 and was appointed the additional position as chairman of the Board in 2010. He is a founding employee of LifePoint, which was established in 1999. Dill joined LifePoint as executive vice president and chief financial officer in 2007.

He was named COO in 2009 and appointed president and COO in 2011.