Ms. Coyle leads the California Hospital Association, representing nearly 400 hospitals throughout California in advocating for better, more accessible healthcare for the state’s 40 million residents. Since joining the organization as president and CEO in 2017, she has guided California’s hospitals through unprecedented challenges, including the Covid-19 pandemic, expansive economic instability and an increasingly aggressive policy environment focused on controlling hospital spending, building broad coalitions along the way to advance behavioral health care and health insurance coverage for all. Her deep policy expertise spans more than four decades, including nine years as president and CEO of the Maryland Hospital Association and 20 years with the American Hospital Association, concluding as a member of its executive management team leading policy development for the nation’s hospitals, along with six years earlier in her career with the Congressional Budget Office. This breadth of experience across federal and state policy, hospital association leadership, and legislative advocacy has made her one of the most seasoned and respected voices in healthcare policy in the country. In February 2026, Ms. Coyle announced plans to retire in early 2027.
