MERCY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chief Nursing Officer ( CNO ) for Bon Secours Mercy Health 's Cincinnati
Brandi Fields is a chief nursing officer (CNO) for Bon Secours Mercy Health's Cincinnati Market. Brandi joined the health care system in 2015 and has more than 20 years of experience in nursing leadership and 29 years of experience in health care.
In her role as Cincinnati market CNO, she collaborates with system, market, and site leaders to further align system strategy with nursing strategy. She is accountable for nursing care across the Cincinnati market and is dedicated to providing highly reliable safe care for patients and families.
Prior to her role as the Cincinnati market CNO, she served as a CNO in our Kentucky market, Brandi engaged and led teams to drive significant improvement in outcomes including but not limited to experience of care, fall rate reduction, financial stewardship and improved and sustained RN engagement.
Brandi is board-certified as an advanced nursing executive through the ANCC (American Nurses Credentialing Center). She holds a DNP degree in nursing administration from Bellarmine University in Louisville, Ky.
Job Titles:
- Emergency Medicine Physician
- Chief Clinical Officer, Mercy Health - Kentucky
Dr. Bechtel has been a practicing emergency medicine physician at Mercy Health - Lourdes Hospital since 2014. He is also the medical director for Mercy Regional EMS and Carlisle County EMS and served as Lourdes Hospital's president of the medical staff from 2019 through 2021.
Before joining Mercy Health, Dr. Bechtel was a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy for three years and served as assistant program director and emergency medicine physician at the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia. In 2012, he served with the U.S. Marine Corps as a physician and officer in charge at a Shock Trauma Platoon in Helmand Province in Afghanistan.
Dr. Bechtel earned his bachelor's degree in biology at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He earned his medical degree at Wake Forest School of Medicine. He completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, where he served as chief resident and instructor of emergency medicine. He is board certified in emergency medicine.
Dr. Bechtel has oversight for Mercy Health's Kentucky region, which includes Lourdes Hospital in Paducah, Ky. and Marcum & Wallace Memorial Hospital in Irvine, Ky.
Job Titles:
- Executive
- Leader
- Market President, Mercy Health - Cincinnati
Brian Gwyn is the executive leader of Mercy Health - Cincinnati. He is responsible for all Cincinnati market operations, helping to advance our Mission to extend the compassionate ministry of Jesus and foster a culture of innovation, growth and excellence to deliver quality, compassionate care to our communities. Brian will oversee Mercy Health - Cincinnati's leadership team, which includes the facility presidents of the six Mercy Health hospitals in the market.
Brian brings more than 25 years of health care experience to his new role. He joined Mercy Health in February 2023 from Atrium Health, a nonprofit health system based in Charlotte, NC, where he served for nearly 15 years in a variety of leadership roles.
Brian earned his bachelor's degree, as well as a master's degree in family and consumer services, from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. He earned his master's degree in business administration in health care from Gardner Webb University in Boiling Springs, NC.
Job Titles:
- Chief Strategy Officer
- Chief Strategy Officer for Bon Secours
David Cannady is the chief strategy officer for Bon Secours Mercy Health, leading the ministry's acute care business development and strategic planning teams.
Cannady came to Mercy Health in May 2017 from Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) in Nashville, where he served as vice president of the Strategic Resource Group. During his tenure at HCA, David led a team that provided strategic planning and consulting for growth initiatives and hospital operations, managed reporting and progress on the strategic agenda, and helped develop strategies on service lines, clinically integrated networks and clinical co-management programs.
Before joining HCA in 2002, Cannady was a senior manager in the health care consulting group at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in Charlotte, N.C. He began his career at Richmond Memorial Hospital, now known as Memorial Regional Medical Center.
A North Carolina native, he holds a bachelor's degree in public health from the University of North Carolina and a master's degree in health administration from Duke University.
Cannady serves on the board of Cintrifuse, an innovation technology company based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Bloomfield served as chief financial officer for Mercy Health. In a prior role, she was the CFO for Mercy Health's southern division. Previously, Bloomfield was employed by Ernst and Young, LLP, where she specialized in the health care and finance services sectors. She has more than 25 years of experience in health care finance. In 2013, Bloomfield was named Chief Financial Officer of the Year by the Cincinnati Business Courier.
Bloomfield holds a PhD in business administration from Touro University International (now Trident University). She holds a Master of Business Administration in finance and management information systems from Xavier University in Cincinnati and an undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, in accounting from Xavier University.
She is a certified public accountant in Ohio (active) and a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer
- Chief Operating Officer of Bon Secours
Don Kline is the chief operating officer of Bon Secours Mercy Health core operations, which includes its hospitals and sites of care. He is responsible for operational leadership across all Bon Secours Mercy Health U.S. markets, ensuring effective and efficient operations that result in high-quality, compassionate care for all patients and communities.
Kline has more than 30 years of experience in hospital management, finance and operations leadership roles, joining Mercy Health in 2007. Most recently, he served as a ministry group president providing strategic leadership for Bon Secours Mercy Health markets across Ohio, South Carolina and New York (joint venture). He also served as president of Mercy Health - Youngstown.
Before joining the ministry, he served in CFO roles with Heritage Valley Health System and Trinity Health System. Kline holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Pittsburgh and a bachelor's degree in business administration from Duquesne University. He is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Job Titles:
- Chief Mission Officer for Bon Secours
He holds a doctor of philosophy in moral theology from St. Louis University and a master's degree from the Athenaeum of Ohio, Cincinnati. He graduated from Bowling Green State University with a bachelor's degree in secondary education and teaching. He was ordained a priest in the Diocese of Toledo in 1987.
As Bon Secours Mercy Health's chief ventures officer, Jason Siegert is responsible for driving enhanced performance across shared services, clinical operations, care delivery innovation and growth, while helping build a more agile, innovative culture that allows Bon Secours Mercy Health to better serve its patients and communities.
He joined the ministry in 2018 as its first chief analytics officer, working to harness and evaluate data with the goal of providing greater transparency and helping to ensure that focused, data-driven decisions directly improve results.
Prior to Bon Secours Mercy Health, Siegert was the CEO for Angel MedFlight Worldwide Air Ambulance Services in Scottsdale, Ariz. and served as director, Operations Finance, for Health Management Associates (HMA), where he helped to facilitate the system's sale to Community Health Systems (CHS).
Siegert holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Florida - Warrington College of Business and a Master of Business Administration from Florida Gulf Coast University.
Job Titles:
- Chief Human Resources Officer
- Chief Human Resources Officer for Bon Secours
Joe Gage is the chief human resources officer for Bon Secours Mercy Health and is responsible for diversity and inclusion, talent acquisition, rewards and wellbeing, and learning for the more than 60,000-employee ministry.
Gage previously served as chief human resources officer for Mercy Health. Prior to joining the health care ministry, he was a vice president at Tenet and led human resources (HR), talent, recruiting and HR metrics for the 56 hospitals and 58,000 employees in hospital operations.
Earlier in his career, he negotiated national and local labor agreements for Levi Strauss & Co. At Delta Air Lines, Gage was the human resources division leader for 10,000 pilots and led the startup of Delta's new low cost carrier, Song Airlines. He began his career as in-house counsel for BNSF Railway handling labor and employment cases.
Gage has a Bachelor of Business Administration from Baylor University and a Doctorate in Jurisprudence from Baylor School of Law. He is licensed to practice law in Texas.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- President
- CEO of Bon Secours
Learn more about the leaders of Mercy Health, ranging from our system executive team, to our regional leadership teams, and our board of trustees.
John Starcher is CEO of Bon Secours Mercy Health. As the leader of one of the largest health care systems in the U.S., Starcher oversees the development of system strategies and operations for 50 Mercy Health and Bon Secours hospitals and more than 1,000 sites of care across Ohio, Kentucky, New York, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina and Florida, as well as five locations across Ireland. Bon Secours Mercy Health employs more than 60,000 people including 2,600 employed U.S. providers and 450 Irish consultants, and has pro forma net operating revenue of approximately $10 billion.
Previously he served as president and CEO of Mercy Health, the largest provider of health care in the state of Ohio.
Starcher was the former president and chief executive officer of Health Management Associates (HMA), an integrated acute care delivery system with 71 hospitals across 15 states. He guided HMA through its successful sale to Community Health Systems.
Before joining HMA, Starcher served as the CEO of three of Mercy Health's four divisions - overseeing more than 20 acute care hospitals, five long term care facilities, six home health agencies and dozens of affiliated clinical practices with more than $3 billion in net revenue. He also served as the CEO of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Region, the senior vice president of human resources and corporate associate counsel.
Starcher began his health care career in academic medicine, serving six years in leadership roles at the Medical College of Ohio, now the University of Toledo Medical Center.
He has a bachelor's degree in business administration from Bowling Green State University and a Doctorate in Jurisprudence from the University of Toledo. John is licensed to practice law in the State of Ohio and has actively served as a director on more than 16 boards.
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer of Mercy Health 's Cincinnati
- Chief Operating Officer, Mercy Health - Cincinnati
- President of Clermont Hospital in Batavia Township
Kenneth James is the chief operating officer of Mercy Health's Cincinnati market. His responsibilities include strategic operational oversight of six hospital facilities, service lines, ancillary services and/or support services. Duties include establishing systems and approaches that hold institutions and leadership accountable for achieving the Mercy Health mission in acute and/or ambulatory settings within the Cincinnati market.
Kenneth joined Mercy Health in December of 2016 as president of Clermont Hospital in Batavia Township. He has served in a variety of roles, including president/CEO of Mercy Health's East market, which includes Mercy Health - Anderson Hospital and Mercy Health - Clermont Hospital.
Most recently Kenneth held the position of resident of Mercy Health - Anderson Hospital. In that role, he was responsible for driving the strategic vision for quality, service and growth across the hospital's trade area in alignment with Mercy Health's Accountable Care Organization model. This included the development and execution of Mercy Health's integrated network of patient-centered care, ambulatory medical center and physician practices.
Job Titles:
- Tennis Manager, at 513 - 624 - 1881 or
Job Titles:
- Chief Legal Officer
- General Counsel
- Chief Legal Officer for Bon Secours
Michael A. Bezney is the chief legal officer for Bon Secours Mercy Health, leading all ministry-wide legal operations, as well as governance, foundation and advocacy functions.
He joined Mercy Health in 2002 as senior vice president and general counsel, and most recently served as chief legal officer for the ministry.
Previously, Bezney served as vice president and associate general counsel for Advocate Health Care, the largest nonprofit system in metropolitan Chicago. Before joining Advocate in 1996, he was a partner in the health care law department of McDermott, Will & Emery, a Chicago-based law firm. He also served as an associate in corporate law with the Dallas, Texas-based firm of Johnson & Gibbs.
Bezney earned his Doctorate in Jurisprudence from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Texas.
Job Titles:
- in 2017 As the President and CEO
- Market President, Paducah & Irvine, KY / Senior Vice President
Michael Yungmann joined Mercy Health in 2017 as the president and CEO of Mercy Health - Kentucky and senior vice president of Mercy Health.
Prior to joining Mercy Health, Yungmann served as hospital president with BayCare Health System in Clearwater, Fla., for three years. While with BayCare Health System, he focused on physician relationships, market development, service line growth and patient and employee satisfaction. In a previous position as CEO of Southside Regional Medical Center, Petersburg, Va., the hospital achieved HealthGrades 5-Star Ratings for Orthopaedic Services, GYN Surgery and Treatment of Heart Failure. He has healthcare leadership experience at hospitals in Florida, Virginia and Missouri, serving in various roles including CEO, Chief Operating Officer and Associate Administrator. He began his healthcare career as a physical therapist and has been director of Rehabilitation and other clinical services.
Yungmann holds a master's degree in Business Administration from Saint Leo University and a bachelor's of Health Science in Physical Therapy from the University of Florida. He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Job Titles:
- Tennis Manager, at 513 - 682 - 1212 or
Job Titles:
- Chief Marketing Officer
- Chief Marketing Officer for Bon Secours
As chief marketing officer for Bon Secours Mercy Health, Sandra Mackey is responsible for all marketing, communications, digital, brand and creative strategy to support health care delivery across the ministry.
Before joining Mercy Health in 2017 as chief marketing officer, Mackey served as senior vice president of marketing and communications for the Arthritis Foundation, where she was responsible for national strategic marketing initiatives. Previously, Mackey was the executive director of market strategy for Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, where she led a team to support service line and strategic growth initiatives, established a digital marketing platform and launched a comprehensive brand strategy.
Mackey was named "2018 Chief Marketing Officer of the Year" by the Cincinnati Business Courier. She is a graduate of the Woodruff Leadership Academy and holds a bachelor's degree in nursing from Birmingham University in England.
She recently served on the board of directors for Saint Joseph's Mercy Care Foundation in Atlanta and is a current board member for Access Health. She is a member of the national Women Business Leaders (WBL) organization.
Job Titles:
- Chief Sponsorship Officer
As chief sponsorship officer for Bon Secours Mercy Health, Sr. Anne Lutz, CBS, oversees sponsorship, ministry formation, workplace spirituality, ethics, global ministries and social advocacy.
A health care administrator with more than 30 years of experience in acute and geriatric care, Sr. Anne previously served as executive vice president of sponsorship for Bon Secours Health System. In addition, she served as board president for Bon Secours Baltimore Health System in Maryland.
Prior to joining Bon Secours Health System in 1987, Sr. Anne served as an administrator for St. Francis Country House, a 313-bed skilled nursing facility in Darby, Pa. She also held several nursing management and staff positions at three Bon Secours hospitals in Michigan and Maryland.
Sr. Anne received her nursing education from the Bon Secours School of Nursing, Baltimore, Md. She later obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Detroit and a Gerontology Certificate from St. Louis University.
She serves on the boards of Bon Secours Baltimore Health System and Roper St. Francis Health Care. She is treasurer for the Sisters of Bon Secours, USA and assistant treasurer, Congregation of Bon Secours Paris.
Job Titles:
- Chief Nursing Officer, Mercy Health - Kentucky
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Wael Haidar, MD, serves as chief clinical officer at Bon Secours Mercy Health. He is responsible for the strategic leadership of the organization's clinical enterprise, including service lines, physician and ambulatory services, medical informatics and population health.
He previously served as senior vice president, Provider Networks, for Bon Secours Health System, a role he assumed in January 2017. Prior to joining Bon Secours, Dr. Haidar worked at Mercy Clinics in Des Moines, Iowa, for 10 years where he served as a staff physician, medical director of the Adult Hospitalist Program, vice president of hospital-based physicians and ultimately as chief physician executive and president of Mercy Clinics.
Dr. Haidar earned his medical degree from American University of Beirut in Beirut, Lebanon, and a master's degree in business administration from Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management. He completed fellowships with the Mayo Clinic in behavioral neurology and geriatrics.