Michael T. Rowan is the former president of health system delivery and chief operating officer of Englewood, Colorado-based Catholic Health Initiatives, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit health systems with $16 Billion in net revenue.
Rowan, who joined CHI in 2004, provided strategic direction and operational leadership for CHI’s national enterprise of 110 hospitals and hundreds of other care sites in 19 states. He also focused on corporate information technology, performance excellence, physician practice-management and clinical quality at CHI, which has doubled in size in the last five years and generated revenues of $15.2 billion in the 2015 fiscal year.
In a 13 year period, Rowan, a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives with more than three decades of experience in the industry, led a number of successful initiatives at CHI. These include the creation of a single, system-wide information technology infrastructure that resulted in ongoing annual savings in excess of $40 million; the implementation of “CHI Connect,” and enterprise-wide information system that automated and centralized functions such as accounts payable, accounting and supply chain, providing $185 million in savings over a three-year period; and the development of a national physician enterprise that now includes more than 4,000 employed providers.
As part of that effort, he helped lead a strategic merger-and-acquisition program that resulted in the addition of 26 new facilities in key markets, bolstering CHI’s efforts to create a system of strong regional networks across the nation. The focused expansion has allowed CHI to create clinically integrated networks in each of its markets, establishing the foundation that allows the health system to leverage economies of scale, spread best practices and focus on population health management in the new era of valued-based payment and delivery models.
Since launching his career in 1981 as an administrative assistant at District of Columbia General Hospital, Rowan’s service in a wide array of locales large and small – Savannah, Philadelphia, New York City, Denver and Toledo, among others – has provided a rich understanding of the U.S. health care industry and how best it can serve its many diverse communities.
Rowan served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of St. John Health in Detroit prior to joining CHI.
From 1999 to 2002, Rowan was president and chief executive officer of Humility of Mary Health Partners, Youngstown, Ohio, a three-hospital Integrated Delivery system.
Rowan also served from 1993 to 1999 as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Sarasota Memorial Health System located in Sarasota, Florida.
Rowan received a Master of Health Services Administration degree from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Science degree from Miami University. Rowan has served on a wide array of boards of directors, including those of the National Association of Health Services Executives, Consorta Health and Centura Health, as well as the national health care executive council of the American Red Cross.