Institute Board of Directors and Staff
Governance
As a supporting organization to America’s Essential Hospitals, Essential Hospitals Institute is governed by a 16-member board that consists of both member and outside directors.
The board provides strategic direction and oversight of the Institute. The directors meet periodically to consider and vote on key Institute activities.
Board members, who are appointed by the board of directors for America’s Essential Hospitals, serve staggered, two-year terms and may serve up to three consecutive terms.
View our past Institute board chairs back to 1990.
Learn more about how America’s Essential Hospitals is governed.
Officers
| Chair Christine Neuhoff, JD, MBA System Vice President, Chief Legal Officer St. Luke’s Health System |
Past-Chair Delvecchio Finley, MPP CEO Alameda Health System |
| Secretary and Chair-Elect Parveen Chand, MHA Chief Operating Officer Indiana University Health Academic Health Center – Adult Hospitals |
Treasurer Roy Gilbreath, MD Senior Vice President and Chief System of Care Integration Officer Navicent Health |
| Recording Secretary (Ex Officio) Bruce Siegel, MD, MPH President and CEO America’s Essential Hospitals |
Member Directors
- Brenda Battle, MBA, vice president, Urban Health Initiative Chief Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Office, UChicago Medicine
- Rohit Bhalla, MD, MPH, vice president of quality and patient safety, Stamford Hospital, Stamford, Conn.
- Susan Cooper, MSN, chief integration officer and senior vice president, Regional One Health, Memphis, Tenn.
- Melany Gavulic, RN, MBA, president and CEO, Hurley Medical Center, Flint, Mich.
- Kim Hollon, president and CEO, Signature Healthcare – Brockton Hospital, Brockton, Mass.
- Shannon Sale, MHA, chief strategy officer, Grady Health
Outside Directors
- Melinda Abrams, MS, vice president, director of delivery system reform, The Commonwealth Fund, New York
- Stuart Guterman, independent consultant, Silver Spring, Maryland
- Anand Shah, MD, MS, vice president of social health, Kaiser Permanente
- Dale Shaller, MPA, principal, Shaller Consulting Group, Stillwater, Minnesota
- Kevin Weiss, MD, MPH, MHSA, senior vice president, Institutional Accreditation, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Chicago, Illinois
Committees
Below find a list of Essential Hospitals Institute standing committees, with links to members-only resources and information.
Visit our About page to access information on America’s Essential Hospitals’ standing committees.
Staff
Kalpana Ramiah
Vice President of Innovation and Director, Essential Hospitals Institute
Dayna Clark
Senior Research Assistant
Elizabeth Frentzel
Manager of Sponsored Projects
Hannah Lambalot
Research Assistant
Maeceon Lewis
Data Reporting Associate
Brian Roberson
Manager of Data Analytics
Jennifer Stephens
Principal Research Associate
Contact the Institute staff
DEPT-EHI@essentialhospitals.org
