Mr. Precourt leads Central Massachusetts’ largest academic medical center, guiding strategy, operations and quality. After serving as interim president in 2023, he was named president in 2024 and swiftly expanded inpatient capacity by transforming a former rehabilitation center into a 78,000-square-foot acute care facility with 72 private rooms and state-of-the-art technology. He has tackled regional bed shortages by scaling alternate care locations, opening surge areas, optimizing step-down and discharge workflows, and growing a hospital-at-home program that now includes postpartum care. Mr. Precourt redesigned emergency department triage and staffing to handle roughly 20% more monthly volume and reduce patients leaving without treatment. He also created a caregiver wellbeing specialist role to support frontline teams. Under his leadership, UMass Memorial Medical Center earned its first-ever CMS 4-star designation, supported by new safety dashboards, sepsis and medication safety initiatives, and suicide risk mitigation. He chairs the 2025 Central Massachusetts Heart and Stroke Ball and previously served as CNO and chief nurse executive within the UMass Memorial Health system.
