Health Care 2023: DR. MARLON LEVY
Levy was appointed to lead the VCU Health System last year on an interim basis, having served as chief medical officer of the VCU Medical Center and director of the Hume-Lee Transplant Center. He replaced Dr. Art Kellermann, who resigned in November 2022. In the past year, VCU Health’s Massey Cancer Center was designated a […]
Health Care 2023: DR. WILLIAM LUNN
Previously CEO of HCA’s Chippenham and Johnston-Willis Hospitals, Lunn was promoted in January to president of the Nashville, Tennessee-based health system‘s division that includes 19 hospitals in Virginia, New Hampshire, Indiana and Kentucky. He succeeded Tim McManus, who now leads HCA’s national operating group. HCA, which reported $60.23 billion in 2022 revenues, employs 16,80[...]
Health Care 2023: MARK NANTZ
Joining Valley Health in June 2020, Nantz is responsible for overseeing about 6,000 employees and six hospitals, including two in West Virginia. He previously held executive roles at Bon Secours Mercy Health, including as chief administrative officer and president of its Atlantic Group. In January, Valley Health joined West Virginia University Health System, Mountain Health […]
Health Care 2023: DENNIS MATHEIS
Last year, Matheis became CEO of Sentara, an $11 billion not-for-profit health system with 12 hospitals in Virginia and North Carolina, employing 30,000 workers, including 1,375 physicians. He succeeded Howard P. Kern, who retired after a 40-year career at Sentara. In May, he oversaw the health system’s rebranding from Sentara Healthcare to the shorter Sentara […]
Health Care 2023: MICHAEL J. LUTES
Lutes came aboard as Bon Secours’ Richmond market leader in October 2022, weeks after a New York Times front-page exposé focused on how the Cincinnati-based health system made as much as $100 million annually from a hospital in an economically challenged, predominantly Black East End neighborhood. The windfall was due to the federal 340B program, […]
Health Care 2023: MARY N. MANNIX
A surgical ICU nurse at the start of her career, Mannix manages a staff of about 2,500 at Augusta Health, one of the largest employers in the Shenandoah Valley. The health system includes the main Fishersville hospital campus and 18 urgent care and family practices and other outpatient facilities. Last year, the system opened a […]
Health Care 2023: MAUREEN H. McBRIDE
In April, after serving as interim CEO for seven months, McBride became the first woman to lead UNOS, the beleaguered nonprofit that operates the national Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN). Following years of criticism over problems such as discarded or damaged organs, long waiting lists and technological issues, Congress voted in late July to […]
Health Care 2023: DR. MICHAEL McDERMOTT
Since 2015, McDermott has led the not-for-profit hospital system that includes two hospitals in Fredericksburg and Stafford County, three emergency departments and about 50 clinics and other outpatient facilities. It employs about 5,000 people, including 600 doctors. Generating $925 million in revenue in fiscal year 2022, Mary Washington began its new Graduate Medical Education program […]
Health Care 2023: PAT DAVIS-HAGENS
As Bon Secours’ Hampton Roads market president since October 2021, Davis-Hagens oversees nearly 5,000 employees and operations at three hospitals in Franklin, Newport News and Portsmouth, as well as other facilities. Davis-Hagens previously served as president of Cincinnati’s The Jewish Hospital – Mercy Health, part of the national Bon Secours Mercy Health system. She earned [&hellip[...]
Health Care 2023: DR. J. STEPHEN JONES
Named as one of the top 1% of cancer specialists and urologists in the nation by Castle Connolly, Jones has led Inova Health System since 2018. The regional health system employs more than 20,000 people across its five hospitals and numerous other facilities, including Northern Virginia’s only Level 1 trauma center. In May, the health […]
Health Care 2023: AMY CARRIER
Since arriving at Centra in 2021, Carrier spearheaded the development of the health system‘s strategic plan and this year launched an ambitious $500 million, four-year modernization plan. Established in 1987 through the merger of Lynchburg General Hospital and Virginia Baptist Hospital, Centra Health serves more than 500,000 people through four hospitals, five medical centers and […]
Health Care 2023: DR. SANDY L. CHUNG
Chung got hooked on medicine after a fourth-grade school project that called for her to represent a career. A neighbor who was a nurse helped her choose the profession, lending Chung a stethoscope and giving her shoe covers, a paper gown and tongue depressors. “It was amazing!” recalls Chung, this year’s president of the American […]