Health Care 2025: DAVIS-HAGENS, PAT

Davis-Hagens has had a busy 2025 as Bon Secours expands its Hampton Roads facilities. The health system opened its Harbour View Medical Center, an approximately $80 million, 100,000-square-foot hospital in Suffolk, in May.

That month, Bon Secours also opened a primary care clinic in Portsmouth, and in June, its women’s imaging center in Portsmouth opened.

Additionally, Davis-Hagens oversees operations at hospitals in Franklin, Newport News and Portsmouth, as well as at other Bon Secours facilities in the area. Bon Secours Hampton Roads has about 5,000 employees.

Before taking her current post as president of the Hampton Roads market in 2021, Davis-Hagens was president of The Jewish Hospital – Mercy Health in Ohio, part of the national Bon Secours Mercy Health system. She also worked for two decades at Illinois’ Provena Covenant Medical Center in a variety of leadership positions.

A former nurse, Davis-Hagens earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Salem State College in Massachusetts and an MBA from Plymouth State College in New Hampshire.

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