After a national search for the right leader, the Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems named a new president and chief executive officer Thursday.
The organization lobbies for Vermont’s 14 hospitals and collects admissions data for the Vermont Department of Health. Former CEO Bea Grause left in December to take a similar job in New York.
The new president and CEO is Jeffrey Tieman, the chief of staff at the Catholic Health Association in Washington, D.C., where he has worked since 2004. He will start the new job in late August, the association said in a news release.
Tieman has a Master of Professional Studies degree from George Washington University and went to Colorado College. He was the Washington bureau chief for Modern Healthcare magazine and served as a spokesperson for different health care organizations.
Before serving as chief of staff, Tieman was involved in advocating to create the federal Affordable Care Act, the association said. Vermont has been moving forward under federal law, seeking to overhaul payment structures through groups of doctors called ACOs.
Thomas Dee, the CEO of Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington and chair of the hospital association’s board, said in a news release that Tieman has “considerable experience at the forefront of national health care policy” and “will bring a great deal of new energy to the association.”
In a statement, Tieman said he wants to help build “a health care system that works well for everyone and can be a model of innovation, creativity and partnership.”
The Vermont Association of Hospitals’ vice presidents of finance and policy — Mike Del Trecco and Jill Olson, respectively — have been serving as co-executive officers for the past several months while the national search took place.
