Griffin Hospital competitors

Kate Walsh is president and CEO of the Boston Medical Center (BMC) health system, with annual operating revenue of $4 billion. BMC is a private, not-for-profit, 514-bed, academic medical center with a community-based focus. The primary teaching affiliate of Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center has approximately 5,700 employees and 760 physicians. The BMC health system also includes the BMC HealthNet Plan, a Medicaid Managed Care Organization with more than 450,000 members and Boston HealthNet, a network affiliation of 14 community health centers throughout Boston. Prior to her appointment at Boston Medical Center, Ms. Walsh served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Brigham and Women's Hospital. She served previously as the chief operating officer for Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research and at Massachusetts General Hospital in positions including senior vice president of medical services and the MGH Cancer Center. Prior to her tenure at Mass General, she held positions in a number of New York City hospitals including Montefiore, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Saint Luke’s – Roosevelt Hospital Center and the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. Ms. Walsh received her bachelor’s of arts degree and a master’s degree in public health from Yale University. She is a member of the Boards of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Boston Public Health Commission, the Massachusetts Hospital Association, the AAMC Council of Teaching Hospitals, Pine Street Inn, Dean’s Council of the Yale University School of Medicine, and the Greater Boston YMCA Board of Overseers.

Rod Harkleroad is a Chief Executive Officer at Frye Regional Medical Center and is based in Mount Juliet, Tennessee. He has worked as Chief Executive Officer at Riverview Regional Medical Center, Chief Executive Officer at Haywood Regional Medical Center, and Chief Executive Officer at Trousdale Medical Center. Rod works or has worked as Administrator at LIFEPOINT HEALTH, INC.. He studied at Western Kentucky University between 1996 and 2001, Gamma Beta Phi Society, and Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management between 2009 and 2010.

Experienced Executive Vice President with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry. Skilled in Healthcare Consulting, Customer Service, Medicaid, Strategic Planning, and Healthcare Industry. Strong business development professional with a Masters in Business Administration focused in Public Accounting

Jody White is a Chief Executive Officer at Lowell General Hospital and President/CEO at Circle Health.

Kenneth L. Davis is president and chief executive officer of the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, an American author and medical researcher who developed the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale, the most widely used tool to test the efficacy of treatments for Alzheimer's Disease designed specifically to evaluate the severity of cognitive and noncognitive behavioral dysfunctions characteristic to persons with Alzheimer's disease.

Candace S Johnson is a Board at OmniSeq and Professor:Pharmaceutical Science at University at Buffalo Foundation, Inc and is based in Buffalo, New York. She has experience at University of Pittsburgh - PITT and has worked as President and CEO at Roswell Park, Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Deputy Director of Basic Research at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. Candace attended The Ohio State University between 1974 and 1977.

Winner of 2016 IMAGE Magazine Management Professional Businesswoman of the Year Award On the 21st November, Kay Connolly, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of St. Vincent’s University Hospital (SVUH) was awarded the prestigious Management Professional of the Year Award at the IMAGE Business Woman of the year Awards 2016. Over 400 nominations were received for the 10th anniversary of the awards with just one in four nominations being shortlisted. Kay was the only public sector nominee and winner at the awards, competing with corporate enterprises. With 32 years’ industry experience, Kay Connolly has received multiple promotions since joining St Vincent’s University Hospital - nurse, nurse manager, Assistant director of nursing, and director of unscheduled care, culminating in her current role as chief operating officer. Kay is known for driving change and quality improvements, which maintain the high quality service offered to St Vincent’s Hospital patients. She provides leadership, management and clinical expertise to ensure the efficient running of one of Ireland’s largest acute level 4 hospitals with a staff complement of over 2,500. Kay works alongside the CEO and senior management in implementing the hospital’s strategic objectives. She is the first female appointment to this level within the management structure in 15 years.

Forty years of progressively responsible experience in the health care industry, fifteen with multi-billion dollar academic health care systems that represent some of the most complex, progressive and successful healthcare organizations in the United States, including the Johns Hopkins, MedStar and University of Maryland Health Systems in Baltimore, MD and the Jefferson Health System in Philadelphia, PA.