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Health Care 2025: DACEY, DR. MICHAEL J.
PRESIDENT AND CEO, RIVERSIDE HEALTH, NEWPORT NEWS
Virginia Business //September 1, 2025//
Health Care 2025: DACEY, DR. MICHAEL J.
PRESIDENT AND CEO, RIVERSIDE HEALTH, NEWPORT NEWS
Virginia Business //September 1, 2025//
Dacey became Riverside Health’s CEO in 2023, in addition to serving as president. Riverside has more than 9,500 employees and operates seven hospitals — including Riverside Mental Health & Recovery Center, Virginia’s first stand-alone psychiatric emergency department — in Newport News, Williamsburg, Hampton, Yorktown, Gloucester and Onancock, as well as over 110 medical offices in the region.
The health system is building an eighth hospital; the approximately 200,000-square-foot Riverside Smithfield Hospital is expected to open in early 2026. Riverside also has plans for a 27,000-square-foot medical office building beside the hospital.
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 & Health Sciences, Dacey also earned a master’s degree in health care management from the Harvard School of Public Health.
