Mr. Bujak assumed the CFO role at Heywood Healthcare in 2024 after joining the system as senior director of finance in 2023, during a period of financial instability. As CFO of the rural system, he led Athol Hospital, a 21-bed rural critical access facility, through a Chapter 11 bankruptcy process beginning in October 2023, achieving $14 million in annual savings through cost reduction and $2 million in additional savings from service line optimization. Under his leadership, Heywood Healthcare successfully exited bankruptcy in less than a year as an independent community health system, an outcome achieved by fewer than 3% of health systems in 2023. Mr. Bujak has paired financial recovery with service expansion, sustaining critical inpatient and outpatient offerings in a federally designated provider shortage area. He previously served as CFO of TaraVista Behavioral Health Center in Devens, Mass. and MiraVista Behavioral Health Center in Holyoke, Mass., as well as director of finance at Harrington Memorial Hospital in Southbridge, Mass.
