Currently, Mr. Pugh, a certified public accountant, oversees all financial operations of the health system, which is based in Harrisburg, Pa. PinnacleHealth encompasses three hospitals and several outpatient clinics, and it has roughly $800 million in net revenue.
Before PinnacleHealth, he served as CFO of Frederick (Md.) Memorial Healthcare System for more than a decade. He also served as CFO and controller of Hanover (Pa.) General Hospital.
Mr. Pugh worked at Memorial Hospital in York, Pa., in the early 1990s, and he started his professional career as an accountant with Ernst and Ernst in 1976.
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