Illinois Health and Hospital Association elects new board
Phillip Kambic, president and CEO, Riverside Healthcare, leads 2020 board
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association (IHA) is pleased to announce its newly elected 2020 Board of Trustees. Board officers serve a one-year term beginning Jan. 1, 2020.
Chair: Phillip Kambic, president and CEO, Riverside Healthcare
Chair-Elect: Karen Teitelbaum, president and CEO, Sinai Health System
Past Chair: Mary Starmann-Harrison, president and CEO, Hospital Sisters Health System
Treasurer: Ted Rogalski, administrator, Genesis Medical Center, Aledo
Secretary: Mary Lou Mastro, system CEO, Edward-Elmhurst Health
President: A.J. Wilhelmi, president and CEO, IHA
New trustees elected to serve a three-year term beginning Jan. 1, 2020 include:
Jeremy Bradford, president, SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital-Mt. Vernon
Ruth Colby, president and CEO, Silver Cross Hospital
Bill Santulli, chief operating officer, Advocate Aurora Health
The IHA Board of Trustees is the Association’s policymaking body. The Board is made up of 26 trustees, elected by the voting members of the Association, five officers (chair, chair-elect, past chair, treasurer, and secretary) and the Association’s president and CEO. Constituency sections, councils and task forces provide members with opportunities to participate in the Association’s policy development process.
About IHA
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association, with offices in Chicago, Naperville, Springfield, and Washington, D.C., advocates for Illinois’ more than 200 hospitals and nearly 40 health systems as they serve their patients and communities. IHA members provide a broad range of services—not just within their walls, but across the continuum of healthcare and in their communities. Reflecting the diversity of the state, IHA members consist of nonprofit, investor-owned and public hospitals in the following categories: community, safety net, rural, critical access, specialty, and teaching hospitals, including academic medical centers. For more information, see www.team-iha.org.
