Ms. Gapstur serves as president and CEO of WellSpan Health, a $4.7 billion integrated health system with 23,000 team members serving 1.2 million patients. With more than 25 years of healthcare leadership experience, she is accountable for overall system performance, including clinical quality and safety, financial stewardship, strategy execution and innovation governance. Ms. Gapstur positioned WellSpan among the industry’s earliest health systems to deploy large language model-powered tools at scale, including “Ana,” an AI care assistant that has facilitated more than 2 million secure, multilingual patient conversations while improving preventive screening and reclaiming thousands of workforce hours. She has advanced systemwide transformation across care delivery, including virtual care and hospital-at-home programs, and led the system through the Covid-19 pandemic by structuring her leadership team into parallel units focused on urgent response and strategic continuity. She was named a 2025 “Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania.” Ms. Gapstur previously served as president of Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital in Saint Louis Park, Minn. and CNO of Bloomington, Minn.-based Park Nicollet Health Services. She chairs the board of directors of The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania for the 2025-2026 term.
