Health Care 2024: DR. MICHAEL J. DACEY

Dacey has stayed busy since January 2023, when the Riverside Health System president added CEO to his title and responsibilities. Riverside has more than 9,500 employees and operates seven hospitals in Newport News, Williamsburg, Hampton, Yorktown, Gloucester and Onancock, as well as
110 medical offices in the region.

In May, Dacey announced Riverside Health System would launch an inaugural internal medicine residency with eight slots in fall 2024 as a way of addressing the national physician shortage. In April, he kicked off a campaign to raise $12 million in support of Riverside’s neuroscience services.

More than 200 people — including Gov. Glenn Youngkin — Dacey in fall 2023 for a ribbon cutting at Riverside Mental Health & Recovery Center, Virginia’s first stand-alone psychiatric emergency department in Hampton.

Before joining Riverside in 2018 as chief clinical operations officer, Dacey worked as chief medical officer for Care New England in Rhode Island. A graduate of Providence College and George Washington University School of Medicine, Dacey also earned a master’s degree in health care management from the Harvard School of Public Health.