Patti Ellish. President and CEO of St. Tammany Parish Hospital (Covington, La.). Ms. Ellish has served as president and CEO of St. Tammany Parish Hospital since 2000 and is a past chair of Metropolitan Hospital Council of New Orleans. She also serves as a member of Women’s Leadership Council of Greater New Orleans and was named New Orleans City Business‘s Woman of the Year in 2012. During her tenure as president and CEO of St. Tammany Parish Hospital, she has grown the small community hospital into a thriving medical center, tripling the size of the facility. She previously served as vice president and COO of the Memorial Health System of East Texas, now known as CHI St. Luke’s Health-Memorial in Lufkin, Texas.
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