Dec. 8, 2015 — CHOC Children’s President and CEO Kimberly Chavalas Cripe has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Children’s Hospital Association (CHA). She will begin her term on January 1, 2016. Cripe brings more than 20 years of health care leadership experience to the board, including serving on the boards for California Hospital Association, Hospital Association of Southern California and Child Health Corporation of America. She served two terms as board chair for the California Children’s Hospital Association.
“I welcome Kim to our board as a leader in children’s health care.” said Steve Allen, MD, incoming chair, CHA Board of Trustees and CEO of Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, OH. “I look forward to her perspectives and contributions as we continue our work collaboratively as an industry to improve care, enhance the patient and family experience, and lower the cost of care for children.”
CHA is the national voice of more than 200 children’s hospitals, advancing child health through innovation in the quality, cost and delivery of care.
The complete list of CHA’s’s 2016 Board of Trustees is as follows:
Officers
Steve Allen, MD, Chair, Board of Trustees
CEO, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH
Madeline Bell, Vice Chair & Chair-elect
President and CEO, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Amy B. Mansue, Secretary, Board of Trustees
President and CEO, Children’s Specialized Hospital, Mountainside, NJ
Rick W. Merrill, Treasurer, Board of Trustees
President and CEO, Cook Children’s Health Care System, Fort Worth, TX
Members
Michael D. Aubin, FACHE
Hospital President, Wolfson Children’s Hospital, Jacksonville, FL
Kimberly Cripe
President and CEO, Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Orange, CA
Susan Distefano, RN, MSN
CEO, Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, TX
Sandra L. Fenwick
President and CEO, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Paul A. King
Executive Director, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and Von Voightlander Women’s Hospital, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Kurt Newman, MD
President and CEO, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC
Peggy Troy, RN, MSN
President and CEO, Children’s Hospital Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Katy Welkie, RN, MBA
CEO, Primary Children’s Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT
Mark Wietecha
President and CEO, Children’s Hospital Association, Washington, DC
