Phillip Kambic named Chair-elect to Illinois Health & Hospital Association

KANKAKEE, IL (January 11, 2019) - Phillip M. Kambic, Riverside President and CEO


has


been named Chair-elect to the Illinois Health & Hospital Association’s 2019 Board of Trustees. IHA serves to represent more than 200 hospitals and nearly 50 health systems across Illinois. The association promotes advocacy and policy-making in local, state and national governments.

Kambic had previously served as the Board’s Treasurer in 2018. As Chair-elect, he will work alongside Board Chair Mary Starmann-Harrison and the other members of the 2019 Illinois Health & Hospital Association's Board including :

• Immediate Past Chair: William Santulli, Chief Operating Officer of Advocate Aurora Health.
• Treasurer: Karen Teitelbaum, President
  
  and
  
  CEO of Sinai Health System in Chicago.
• Secretary: Ted Rogalski, Administrator of Genesis Medical Center in Aledo.
• President: A.J. Wilhelmi, president
  
  and
  
  CEO of IHA.

Trustees elected to serve a three-year term include:

• Steven Airhart, CEO of Hartgrove Behavioral Health System and Garfield Park Behavioral Hospital in Chicago.
• J.P. Gallagher, president
  
  and
  
  CEO of NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston.
• Dr. James Leonard, president
  
  and
  
  CEO of the Carle Foundation in Urbana.
• George Miller, president
  
  and
  
  CEO of Loretto Hospital in Chicago.
• Kerry Swanson, regional president of SSM Health Illinois in Mt. Vernon and Centralia.