Keynote Speaker

Lloyd Dean

President & CEO
Catholic Healthcare West

Lloyd H. Dean President/CEO Lloyd H. Dean is President/Chief Executive Officer of Catholic Healthcare West (CHW), one of the leading not-for-profit healthcare systems in the United States. In this executive management role, Mr. Dean is responsible for $11 billion in assets and the overall management, strategy and direction of CHW’s integrated health care system comprising 40 acute-care hospitals, as well as medical clinics, home health organizations, two health plans, five medical practice groups, and an estimated 55,000 employees and 10,000 physicians in California, Arizona and Nevada.

Mr. Dean has proven skills in multi-hospital system leadership, cultural integration, financial turnarounds, system operations, service quality, business development and revenue growth. When Mr. Dean joined CHW in June 2000, the organization had gone through several years of steep annual operating losses. Today, CHW is recognized as one of the top healthcare systems in the nation, with a strong balance sheet and A level credit ratings from all three major bond rating organizations. Two thirds of CHW hospitals are first or second in the markets they serve.