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CHE Colleague Elected to Board of Catholic Health Association of the United States

June 30, 2008

SAN DIEGO (June 24, 2008) – Corinne R. Francis, vice president, mission integration, St. Anthony’s Health Care, St. Petersburg, FL, was elected to a three-year term on the Board of Trustees of the Catholic Health Association of the United States. The election was held during the Catholic Health Assembly in San Diego, June 22-24.

CHA’s board consists of 25 trustees, including Sr. Carol Keehan, DC, CHA president and chief executive officer and Bob Stanek, CHE’s president and CEO. The board provides governance by working with members to set strategic directions in order to support and strengthen the Catholic health ministry in the United States.

“We welcome Corinne to the board,” said Sr. Carol. “With her extensive background in mission integration at the local ministry level, she will be a valuable resource and contributor to the work of our Board over the next three years.”

“Corinne has been an energetic, innovative mission leader throughout her career at Catholic Health East,” said Stanek. “We are very proud of her accomplishments, and I think that her experience and talents make her an excellent addition to the CHA board.”

Since 2005, Francis has served as vice president, mission integration at St. Anthony’s Health Care, St. Petersburg, Florida, where she is responsible for leading the integration of Catholic Health Ministry, the charism of the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany and the values of St. Anthony’s Health Care into all aspects of the organizations operations as an executive member of the senior management team. St. Anthony’s Health Care is part of BayCare Health System, which is a joint operating agreement of Catholic Health East.

Prior to her current position, Francis served from 2002 – 2005 as vice president of mission services at St. James Mercy Health System, Hornell, New York, a regional health corporation of Catholic Health East, where she was responsible for leading the integration of Catholic Health East and St. James Mercy Health System’s mission and core values into all aspects of the organization’s operations. Before that, Francis was a program officer with Allegany Franciscan Ministries in Palm Harbor, Florida, also part of Catholic Health East.

Born in the Commonwealth of Dominica and raised in Dominica and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Corinne’s original plan was to obtain her business degree to escape the poverty of her childhood. However, after a mission trip to Camp Andrew Jackson in Kentucky in 1993 where she saw the impact that the camp volunteers had on the lives of children in the Appalachian region, she redirected her studies and obtained a B.A. in Theology and Sociology and graduated summa cum laude from Carlow University in Pittsburgh (1997). She went on to earn a Master of Arts in Social Services Administration, with a concentration in Health Administration and Policy, from the University of Chicago. She earned her Masters in Divinity from the Catholic Theological Union (2001), with a concentration in Health Care Mission Leadership, as a Cardinal Bernardin Scholar.

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