Health Care 2025: ARNER, STEVE

Arner succeeded Nancy Howell Agee as CEO in October 2024, after being promoted to president in 2023. He leads Carilion’s 13,000-plus workers, who serve about 1 million patients in Virginia and West Virginia at seven hospitals and 250 medical offices.

Arner, who joined Carilion in 1996 as a financial analyst, previously served as chief operating officer and executive vice president for the health system’s Roanoke operations. He also was president and CEO of Carilion Medical Center.

Carilion received state approval in May for a kidney transplant program and expects to begin offering the surgeries in 2026.

In June, the $2.4 billion not-for-profit health system opened its 500,000-plus-square-foot Crystal Spring Tower at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, housing an expanded emergency department and Level 1 adult and pediatric trauma center. The Cardiovascular Institute there opened in July.

Construction on the 257,000-square-foot Carilion Taubman Cancer Center, named for Advance Auto Parts CEO Nicholas Taubman and his wife, Jenny, who donated $25 million, is expected to be completed in 2027.

A Brigham Young University alumnus, Arner is a past chair and current member of the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association’s board.

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