Outstanding Alumnus of the Year 2007
Mr.
Ronald Aldrich
Health Services Research, Management and Policy ’66
A 1966 graduate of the department of health services research, management and policy, Mr. Ronald Aldrich has more than 40 years of leadership and governance experience in health care organizations. He served for 19 years as the President and CEO of three multi-hospital Catholic systems — a national system based in Aston, Penn., a regional system located in Urbana, Ill., and a regional system based in Melville, Long Island, N.Y.
Mr. Aldrich was a leader in the formation of Catholic Health Initiatives, which integrated three large Catholic systems, including Franciscan Health System, in 1996. With 126 health care organizations in 21 states, it was the largest not-for-profit health care merger to occur in the United States.
A Recertified Fellow of the American College of Health Care Executives, Mr. Aldrich has served on the boards of directors of five Catholic health systems, including chairperson of the Catholic Health Association of the United States. He currently serves on the boards of Bon Secours Health System, St. Vincent’s Hospital Foundation, Team Staff, University of Florida Foundation and Franciscan Ministries Foundation.
Mr. Aldrich is an Executive in Residence and Visiting Professor in the college’s master’s in health administration program. He also provides health care consulting through Limberpine Associates, Inc.
