New Piedmont Healthcare CEO Named

April 8,2013

Kevin Brown has been named president and chief executive officer of CAP Member, Piedmont Healthcare.

Brown, the 46-year-old chief executive officer for Swedish Health Services in Seattle, Wash., succeeds R. Timothy Stack, who died July 30, following a brief illness.

Brown is stepping into a rapidly consolidating hospital market — in which the five-hospital Piedmont Healthcare system has been a voracious acquiror.

Before Brown was named CEO of the largest not-for-profit healthcare provider in the greater Seattle area in 2012, he was chief strategic officer and led the development and oversight of the strategic planning office for the five-hospital health system

As the senior vice president and chief administrative officer, Brown had operational responsibility for the ambulatory care division which includes Swedish/Lake Sammamish, Swedish/Redmond and Swedish/Mill Creek. He also had operational responsibility for 163-bed Swedish/Ballard and 175-bed Swedish/Issaquah.

Prior to Swedish, Brown worked for the Providence Health System leading various strategic and business development projects. He spent five years in the early 1990s working as part of the start-up management team for PacifiCare of Washington.

In February 2012, the affiliation agreement between Swedish and Providence Health & Service was finalized; a joining of services intended to improve health-care quality, access and affordability for the residents of Western Washington. Brown played a key role in supporting the transition and implementation of that agreement.

Brown will bring that experience to bear in Atlanta.

In November, Piedmont and WellStar Health System agreed to share clinical care best practices and leverage economies of scale for better pricing on supplies and insurance reimbursement.

-Courtesy, Atlanta Business Chronicle