Franklin Hospital has a new interim CEO. The current CFO – Jim Johnson – will now perform both jobs at the Benton hospital, after a unanimous vote of the Franklin Hospital Board last night.

Board Chairman Robert Lewis said Johnson will hold the top spot for a year, at which time the board will consider whether to give him a CEO contract.

Johnson replaces Hervey Davis, who retired in June, a month after a majority of board members in attendance at a meeting voted to fire him. That vote was later deemed to not be valid under Davis’s contract.