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Roxanna L. Gapstur, PhD, RN

President and CEO

WellSpan Health

York, PA

Dr. Gapstur leads 23,000 team members across WellSpan Health, including 2,700 employed providers, galvanizing a culture of innovation and forging strategic partnerships with organizations such as Aidoc, Emerus, General Catalyst, Helix, Hippocratic AI, RoboEatz and Zipline. As the first transformation partner with General Catalyst’s Health Assurance Transformation Company, she has advanced modernization efforts while sustaining community impact, including more than $400 million in community benefit in the last fiscal year. She strengthened value-based care through primary care growth, virtual and onsite access, and payer partnerships, contributing to stable Moody’s and Fitch ratings in a challenging environment. Under her leadership, WellSpan’s Medicare ACO serves over 67,000 patients and has generated more than $36 million in savings in a single year and nearly $75 million over three years. Dr. Gapstur is expanding access via a collaboration with Emerus to build three neighborhood hospitals in underserved areas, each operating 24/7 with emergency departments and inpatient beds. She has positioned WellSpan as a national digital leader, deploying Aidoc across approximately 580,000 annual imaging studies and launching Hippocratic AI’s multilingual agent “Ana”. Her leadership has also earned the system recognitions including National Committee for Quality Assurance health equity accreditation, the American Hospital Association “Quest for Quality” prize, and repeated workplace honors from Forbes, Newsweek, Leapfrog and U.S. News & World Report.

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