Mr. Kramer has served as CEO of Day Kimball Health since 2020, leading the primary source of care for 70,000 residents across 13 towns in rural northeast Connecticut. He has driven growth in orthopedics, expanded specialist recruitment and stabilized the community hospital’s finances while advancing physician alignment and strengthening key service lines. In 2023, after a long-anticipated affiliation with a larger health system collapsed just before a scheduled public hearing, Mr. Kramer led a rapid advocacy and communications effort that helped secure $15 million in emergency funding from the Connecticut General Assembly, followed by a further appropriation in 2025 to support the hospital’s longer-term viability. He has since helped guide Day Kimball into a pending partnership with Farmington, Conn,-based UConn Health as part of the UConn Health Community Network. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he worked alongside frontline teams, assisting with patient room turnover and delivering meals to reinforce unity across the organization. Mr. Kramer chairs Connecticut State Comptroller Sean Scanlon’s Rural Health Task Force and serves on the boards of the Connecticut Hospital Association, the Northeast Connecticut Chamber of Commerce and the Putnam YMCA. He was named a Hartford Business Journal “Healthcare Hero” in 2023.
