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Members of PeaceHealth’s Executive Leadership Team embrace a leadership model fully rooted in our Mission and Values and in our heritage as a Catholic health care ministry. This model guides our leaders in every aspect of their work and oversight responsibilities. It challenges us to relentlessly pursue improvements in patient outcomes and service to patients and families while awakening joy, meaning and purpose in the human spirit.
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Alan Yordy
President and Chief Mission Officer
Alan began his health care career in PeaceHealth's Oregon Region the early 1980s. He left in 1990 to join Samaritan Health Services in Oregon’s Linn and Benton Counties as CEO of Mid-Valley Healthcare. Alan returned to PeaceHealth in 1999 as Chief Executive Officer of the Oregon Region. He took on his current systemwide leadership role in 2005. Alan holds two master’s degrees from the University of Oregon, the most recent of which is a master’s in business administration. He is a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. |
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Peter Adler
Senior Vice President for Strategy, Innovation and Development
Peter has served as PeaceHealth's chief strategy officer since joining the health system in 2006. He is responsible for systemwide planning, growth and development. He also has operating oversight of PeaceHealth Laboratories, Medical Group Development and System Communications and serves as CEO of Health Ventures, the PeaceHealth subsidiary responsible joint ventures and partnerships. Previously he spent 25 years leading large, integrated health systems in Boston and Seattle. Peter has a master’s degree in health policy and management from the Harvard School of Public Health. |
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Elaine Dunda
Senior Vice President for Shared Services and Vice President of Quality and Patient Safety
Elaine joined PeaceHealth in 1975 as Director of Health Records, Medical Staff Services, Quality and Utilization Review at what was then Sacred Heart General Hospital in Eugene. She became an Assistant Administrator in 1982 and, in 1999, a Regional Vice President, where she served until being named to her current system-level position. Elaine has a master’s degree in healthcare administration from the University of Oregon. She is a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. |
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Stu Hennessey
General Counsel and Senior Vice President for Legal Affairs
Stu has served as PeaceHealth’s senior legal counsel since he joined the system in 1989. Previously he spent 11 years in a private law practice in Seattle following four years of service in the United States Navy. Stu received his JD degree from Columbia University Law School. He is a member of the Washington Bar Association. |
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Carol Aaron
Senior Vice President for Culture and People
Carol joined PeaceHealth in 2010. Previously she was the Vice President of Labor and Employee Relations at the St. Joseph Health System in California, a Catholic-based system. Under her leadership, SJHS received the international Gallup Great Workplace Award three consecutive years for having highly engaged employees. Carol has a master’s degree in Human Resources and Organizational Development from the University of San Francisco. Carol expresses it was the strong mission and core values of PeaceHealth that led her to this position. |
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Josiah “Sy” Johnson
Lower Columbia Region Chief Executive Officer/Chief Mission Officer
Sy joined PeaceHealth in 2002 as its Chief Financial Officer. After five years, he was named the Chief Operating Officer, where he served until transitioning into his current role in 2008. Prior to joining PeaceHealth, Sy was with the Seattle office of Arthur Anderson in Audit and Business Advisory Services. He is a Certified Public Accountant and has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Arizona, Tucson. |
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Howard Graman, MD
PeaceHealth Medical Group
Chief Executive Officer
Howard Graman, MD, FACP, joined PeaceHealth in 2011 and is the executive and physician leader for PeaceHealth Medical Group. His board certification is in Internal Medicine and he most recently served as Medical Director of Primary Care and Regional Medicine at the Roanoke, Virginia-based Carilion Clinic and as Professor of Medicine at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. |
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Nancy Steiger
Whatcom Region Chief Executive Officer/Chief Mission Officer
Nancy has led PeaceHealth’s operations in northwestern Washington since 2007. Previously she spent five years as CEO of San Mateo Medical Center following service as COO at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital/St. Joseph Health System, both in northern California. She received her master’s degree in nursing at the University of California, San Francisco. Nancy is the author of Self-Care Nursing: Theory and Practice. |
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Kevin Walstrom
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Kevin rejoined PeaceHealth in 2010 after previously working for the organization from 1987 through 2001. In 1998 he left to assume the CFO duties for Providence’s Holy Family Hospital and later grew to provide the financial management of Providence’s largest service area and its flagship hospital, Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children’s Hospital, in Spokane, Washington. His expertise and mission-driven financial leadership have helped to build two of the strongest faith-based regional health systems in our country.
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John Hill
Oregon Region Chief Executive Officer/Chief Mission Officer
John joined PeaceHealth in June 2012 as CEO of the Oregon Region. Since 2007, John served as the CEO of The Medical Center of Aurora and Centennial Medical Plaza, located near Denver, Colorado. During that time, the hospital received recognition for innovation, effectiveness, and the quality of its care, including the Colorado Performance Excellence Award, and the 2008 American Nurses Association’s Magnet recognitions. Prior to TMCA, John worked as the COO at Medical City Dallas hospital, a 704-bed tertiary acute-care facility. In 2010 he was named to Modern Healthcare’s Up and Comers list of future healthcare leaders.
John has oversight of the operations at PeaceHealth Cottage Grove Community Hospital and PeaceHealth Peace Harbor Hospital, in addition to two PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center campuses. |
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Joseph M. Kortum
President and Chief Executive Officer, Southwest Washington Health System
Mr. Kortum assumed his present position in January 2011, after affiliation with the PeaceHealth System. Previously, Mr. Kortum served as the President/Chief Executive Officer of Southwest Washington Medical Center beginning in May 2003. In addition, he served eleven years at Northern Arizona, including eight years as President and Chief Executive Officer of Northern Arizona Healthcare. Mr. Kortum also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Flagstaff Medical Center for three years, and Chief Operating Officer of Mercy Medical Center in Redding, California for six years.
Mr. Kortum holds a Masters in Hospital and Healthcare Administration from St. Louis University, and a Bachelor of Arts, Psychology from St. Louis University. Mr. Kortum is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, and a member of the governing boards of Washington State Hospital Association and Southwest Washington Hospital Council. He is also a past Chairman of the Arizona Hospital Association, and a past President United Way of Northern Arizona. |
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Tom Fricks
Interim Senior Vice President of Information Services
Tom Fricks is a twenty-five year veteran in the field of Information Technology and, until recently, served as CIO at the Harbin Clinic.
Mr. Fricks led the deployment of many IT initiatives including: EMR, community PACS, CPACS, RIS and various other systems. Harbin Clinic was recognized in 2005 by the Technology Association of Georgia with the Excalibur Award as the mid-sized company in Georgia (across all industries) using information technology most effectively.
Tom has served as an Interim CIO, and consultant to hospitals regarding MSO business plans, to ambulatory practices regarding EHR selection and implementation and to a variety of organizations regarding IT Management Best Practices and IT Strategy.
Prior to entering the IT field Mr. Fricks served as an officer for thirteen years in the US Army, where he was trained as an Airborne Ranger. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point and a Masters Degree in Computer System Management from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. |
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