ACHEMT recently announced the appointment of 2021 Board members. Laurie Babin, FACHE, will serve as the president of the organization. Laurie is the Chief Revenue Officer for BrightSpring Health Services.
Other officers include: Dan Ryan of Ryan Partners (past- president), Vikram Bollu, HCA (president-elect), Brian Marger of TriStar Summit Medical Center (vice-president) Susan Nance of Omni Community Health (secretary), Chris Dooney of CenterPoint Behavioral Health (treasurer), Katie Sandlin of Ascension (immediate past treasurer), Natasha Kurth of CECA (treasurer-elect) and Trent Beach of UNC Health (regent).
Other board members, including committee chairs and chair-elects, include: Renee Burnham of Decision Resources Group, Bryan Dejanovich and Wes Crawford of Vanderbilt, Jon Puncochar of Parallon, Kacy Bringaze of HCA Physician Services, Reggie Wells of HealthTrust Purchasing, Jim Mitchell (self-employed, coach/mentor), Donita Brown of Lipscomb University, Nate Comstock of Optum and Amit Parmar of TriStar Southern Hills. The Members at large include: Patrice Mayo of THA, Lisa Piercey, MD, of Tennessee Department of Health, Troy Chisolm of HCA Pinewood Springs and Tama Van Decar, MD, of TriStar Health.