Mr. Halliwill oversees all financial activities of Carilion Clinic, an organization with annual revenues of $2.93 billion, as well as strategy development and implementation across clinical and business lines. He joined Carilion in 1997 and assumed increasing responsibilities, including CEO of Carilion New River Valley Medical Center in Christiansburg, Va. and CFO of Carilion’s hospital division. He was named to his current role in 2013. As CFO, Mr. Halliwill helped lead the organization’s reorganization from a hospital system into a patient-centered, physician-led clinic while navigating the impacts of payment reform. He guided the high-profile $500 million expansion of flagship Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, which opened in 2025 with an expanded emergency department and enhanced cardiovascular institute. He has been instrumental in Carilion’s academic health center partnerships with the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, and he has driven the region’s biotech and life sciences ecosystem, including Carilion Clinic Innovation, Usability Works and the creation of RoVa Labs, the region’s first labs incubator developed with the city of Roanoke, Virginia Tech and other partners. Mr. Halliwill has also made Carilion’s pricing more transparent. He was named No. 14 on FinanceandInvesting.com‘s “Top 25 CFOs of Virginia” in 2023.
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Becker's Recognition
Don Halliwillhas been named a Becker's honoree on the lists below.
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Hospital and Health System CFOs to Know
The chief financial officers featured on this list are helming financial functions for health systems and hospitals throughout the U.S. These leaders are instrumental in strategic financial planning, expansions and joint ventures for their organizations. These CFOs take on responsibility for the financial sustainability of their hospitals and health systems, and are key to their organizations’ overall success.
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