(KNZA)--Longtime Hiawatha Community Hospital CEO John Moore is retiring July 1st.

A come-and-go reception in his honor will be held Sunday afternoon from 2 to 4 at the hospital, and the public is invited to attend.

Moore is retiring after 27 years of service with the hospital, the last 20 years as CEO. 

He will replaced by Roger Barnhart.  Barnhart, a native of Phillipsburg, brings 20 years of healthcare experience, mostly recently as the CEO of Ashland Healthcare in Ashland, Kansas.