Mr. Nespoli brings more than 30 years of experience as a health system executive to his role leading St. Luke’s University Health Network’s Lehigh and Carbon campuses, having previously held leadership roles at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester and Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health System. He oversaw the development and construction of a new St. Luke’s hospital in Carbon County, which opened in November 2021 and earned an “A” grade from the Leapfrog Group in its first year of eligibility in 2025. Mr. Nespoli has a particular focus on turning around distressed hospitals and integrating their revival into the broader economic development strategies of the communities they serve, an approach he has also applied at St. Luke’s Sacred Heart Campus in downtown Allentown, Pa., to bring expanded health and social services to economically disadvantaged communities.
