CHA - Key Persons
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- Trustee
- Retired Avera Health CEO
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- Named President of Baylor St. Luke 's Medical Center
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- Senior Director, Global Health
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- Vice President, General Counsel / Compliance Officer / Catholic Health Association / Corporate Treasurer
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Senior Vice President
- Trustee
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- Chief Executive Officer
- President
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- Senior Director, Ministry Formation
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- Director, Mission Innovation & Integration
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- Trustee
- President / Ascension
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- Trustee
- President and Chief Executive Officer / PeaceHealth
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- Trustee
- President and Chief Executive Officer, Ascension Saint Thomas and SVP Ministry Market Executive / Ascension Tennessee
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- Senior Director, Community Health & Eldercare
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- Director, Mission Services
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- Trustee
- Executive Advisor, Senior Care / Health Dimensions Group
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- Trustee
- Chief Human Resource Officer
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- Chief Executive Officer / Ascension
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- Senior Director, Public Policy
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- Chief Human Resources Officer
- Senior Vice President
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- Chief Executive Officer
- President
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- Trustee
- Retired CommonSpirit Health Executive
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- Chief Operations and Finance Officer / Catholic Health Association
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- Trustee
- Retired SCL Health CEO
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- Trustee
- System Vice President, Ambulatory Transformation and Innovation
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- Named President of Sisters of Charity Hospital
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- Editor, Digital Communications. Please Note That CHA Does Not Accept Website Content Submissions from Outside Sources
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- Trustee
- Executive Vice President, Chief Communication and Community Engagement Officer
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- Trustee
- Chief Mission Officer
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- President of the Former Presidents and Executive Directors Team
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- President of the Former Presidents and Executive Directors Team
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- Chief Executive Officer
- President
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- Trustee
- Executive Vice President, Chief Advocacy Officer
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- Chief Executive Officer
- President
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- President of the Former Presidents and Executive Directors Team
(Note: she began as Executive Director, changed in 1972 to executive vice-president and then to president in 1974)
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- Chief Executive Officer
- President
- President & Chief Executive Officer / Catholic Health Association / Washington, DC
Sr. Mary Haddad, RSM, a member of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, is the tenth president and chief executive officer of the Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA). She assumed the position in July 2019, succeeding Sr. Carol Keehan, DC, upon her retirement.
Sr. Mary leads CHA's mission to support and advance the health ministry of the Catholic Church in the United States with its network of hospitals, long-term care facilities and community health centers that represent the largest group of nonprofit health providers in the nation. She oversees CHA operations at the association's Washington, D.C., and St. Louis offices.
In conjunction with CHA's Board of Trustees, Sr. Mary leads the association's strategic planning and develops initiatives to support CHA member organizations in providing high-quality, accessible health care to people of all ages, races, faith traditions and ethnic groups from conception to natural death.
She also directs CHA's national advocacy initiatives to protect life; promote the well-being of communities; address social determinants and disparities; develop new models of health delivery; protect Medicaid, Medicare and other vital safety net programs; and create a just health system that works for everyone, particularly poor and vulnerable persons. She has overall responsibility for administration and program development in areas of advocacy, mission, sponsorship, ethics, community benefit, leadership development, ministry formation, global health and relationships with bishops and other leaders of the Catholic Church.
Prior to her selection as president and CEO, Sr. Mary served as CHA's vice president of sponsorship and mission services since 2016. In that capacity, she directed critical areas of sponsorship, mission, ethics, leadership development and ministry formation, including development of numerous educational programs, resources and collaborations with member health systems, universities, social service agencies and community groups. From 2009 to 2016, she served as senior director of sponsor services and initiated CHA's Sponsor Formation Program for Catholic Health Care to prepare members of ministerial juridic persons to carry out their canonical responsibility as stewards of the health ministry of the Catholic Church.
Her previous experience includes serving on the regional leadership team of the Sisters of Mercy, St. Louis, and working in areas of health care, social service and education, including service in Belize, Central America and Trinidad and Tobago in the West Indies.
Sr. Mary received her master's degree in business administration in health care from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a master's degree in social work from Saint Louis University. She has a bachelor's degree in education from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. She is a member of Alpha Sigma Nu, the honor society of Jesuit Institutions of Higher Education.
She is a member of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, an office of the Vatican; a member observer of the committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB); a member of the subcommittee on Health of the USCCB; a participating observer on the board of Catholic Charities USA; and a board member of The University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.
You are invited to check back often and email your comments and/or questions to Sr. Mary Haddad, RSM, at CHA.
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- Trustee
- President / Catholic HealthCare Partnership of New Jersey
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- Trustee
- Executive Director and Canon Lawyer / Resource Center for Religious Institutes
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- Trustee
- Senior Vice President, Public Policy and Advocacy