UVA Health taps new CFO

UVA Health announced Thursday that Stephanie Schnittger will become its chief financial officer, starting July 7.

In the role, Schnittger will oversee all corporate finance functions across the Charlottesville-based health system, including budgeting and planning for major construction projects. She is succeeding Erik Shannon, who has served as interim CFO for the past several months.

“Stephanie brings great energy and talent, along with a wealth of experience in health care finance, as she becomes our next chief financial officer,” Mitchell H. Rosner, acting executive vice president for health affairs at the University of Virginia, said in a statement. “She will ensure we continue to have the strong financial base we need to carry out our missions of providing the highest-quality patient care, making research discoveries that improve the human condition, training the next generation of health care workers and serving our communities.”

Schnittger is joining UVA Health from Annapolis, Maryland-based health system Luminis Health, where she is CFO. Luminus cares for 1.8 million people in nearly 100 locations. Before joining Luminus in 2024, she spent nearly five years at Sentara Health as senior vice president and CFO for corporate finance. She also spent more than 20 years at Inova Health System, with her roles including senior vice president for corporate finance and interim CFO.

Schnittger has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Dayton and a certified public accountant license from the state of Ohio.

“Knowing how vital UVA Health is for communities across the commonwealth, I can’t wait for the opportunity to become a part of the health system and use my experience to help our team members carry out their incredibly important missions,” she said in a statement. “I’m excited to join a team that is dedicated to serving Virginians in so many different ways.”

UVA Health has four hospitals across Charlottesville, Culpeper and Northern Virginia, along with the University of Virginia School of Medicine, U.Va. School of Nursing, U.Va. Physicians Group and the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. It has more than 1,000 inpatient beds, approximately 40,000 inpatient stays annually and more than 1 million outpatient encounters annually. It also has more than 1,000 employed and independent physicians.

In February, Dr. Craig Kent resigned as CEO of UVA Health after a 2024 letter of “no confidence” signed by 128 physicians and an independent counsel’s investigation into the system.