Mr. Lassiter leads CommonSpirit Health’s 160,000 team members across 2,300 care sites, 158 hospitals and 24 states. The system sees 25 million patients annually, with fiscal year 2025’s operating revenue totaling over $40 billion. Mr. Lassiter also oversees the CommonSpirit Health Foundation, which raised $316.1 million in fiscal year 2025 and directed $222.1 million to capital projects, research, oncology, cardiology, education, community outreach and health justice. Under his leadership, CommonSpirit applied a unified “One CommonSpirit” operating model and improved performance, increasing earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization to $1.9 billion from $1.3 billion in fiscal year 2024, scaling the physician enterprise to nearly 25 million annual visits and expanding unified patient connection centers that handle over 3.2 million calls. Mr. Lassiter also elevated quality and experience, with 86% of eligible hospitals earning Leapfrog “A” or “B” grades and the system earning the “Eisenberg Award for Patient Safety and Quality” from The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum in 2025. Mr. Lassiter is also helping to form national patient safety priorities surrounding AI use, serving as co-chair of the National Academy of Medicine’s “Steering Group for Patient Safety in the Era of AI,” a two-year initiative beginning in spring 2026. In 2025, the system’s “MyVoice” employee survey was completed by 114,000 participants and showed belonging, values and trust scores above national benchmarks. Forbes recognized CommonSpirit as one of “America’s Dream Employers” for both 2025 and 2026. Mr. Lassiter serves on the boards of Quest Diagnostics and Fortive, and has previously served as lead independent director of DT Midstream. He is a member of Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose and The Wall Street Journal CEO Council.
