Mr. Anderson has led St. Luke’s University Health Network since 1985, making him the nation’s longest-tenured health system CEO. When he took over, St. Luke’s was a single community hospital with an operating budget of about $63 million. Today, the network includes more than 16 hospital campuses and over 350 outpatient sites, employs more than 23,000 people and generates annual revenue approaching $5 billion. In 2009, he helped establish the Lehigh Valley’s first four-year medical school in partnership with Temple University’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine, which has since grown to more than 65 graduate medical education programs with more than 550 fellows and residents. In 2026, St. Luke’s opened the St. Luke’s College of Health Sciences to help address workforce shortages in critical healthcare roles. In 2025, the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ranked St. Luke’s as the top-performing health system in the U.S. for safety and quality. Mr. Anderson received the 2024 “Steven Schroeder Award for Outstanding Healthcare CEO” from Leapfrog, which recognizes ethical leadership in improving health care quality and affordability.
