Huntington Health President and CEO Elected to American Hospital Association Board of Trustees

Dr. Lori Morgan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pasadena-based Huntington Health (formerly Huntington Hospital) has been elected to the American Hospital Association  Board of Trustees for a three-year term beginning January 1. 

According to the Association’s website, Morgan was elected along with five others: Schonay Barnett-Jones, trustee of Children’s National Hospital in Washington; Victoria Bayless, CEO of Luminis Health based in Annapolis; Mary Ann Fuchs, vice president of patient care and system chief nurse executive for Duke University Health System based in Durham and Stephen Purves, president and CEO of Valleywise Health in Phoenix. 

The six new trustees will have ultimate authority to govern and manage AHA, including its finances, according to its website.

Morgan will serve as chair for Region 9 which includes California, Washington, and Oregon. 

According to AHA, Morgan has recently focused on “setting physician strategy and expanding clinical programs and led a major construction project for new operating rooms, cardiac catheterization labs and earthquake retrofitting.” 

She is also currently leading initiatives “to expand diversity, equity and inclusion, and create and implement leading-practice caregiver wellness resources to address burnout and foster greater professional satisfaction.”

Thursday, Pasadena Interim City Manager Cynthia Kurtz congratulated Morgan on behalf of the City of Pasadena following her election. “The City of Pasadena is pleased to congratulate Dr. Lori Morgan, president and CEO of Huntington Health, on her election to the Board of the American Hospital Association” 

Kurtz remarked that Morgan’s election to the board was “well-deserved.” 

Morgan was named CEO of then-Huntington Hospital in 2017. Prior to joining the hospital, she spent nine years as a corporate vice president of Legacy Health in Portland, Oregon. 

Before her stint at Legacy, Morgan served as a medical director of the Trauma Trust in Tacoma, Washington for nearly a decade, where she developed a new adult Level II Trauma Center and Pediatric Trauma Service.

She served as a co-director of the surgical ICU and was a trauma surgeon at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics between 1997 and 2000.

The AHA is a national organization that represents and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks, and their patients and communities. Founded in 1898, the non-profit also provides insight and education for health care leaders and is a source of information on health care issues and trends.

Nearly 5,000 hospitals, health care systems and other health care providers, and 43,000 individual members make up the AHA.

Through their representation and advocacy activities, the non-profit ensures that members’ needs are heard and addressed in national health policy development, legislative and regulatory debates, and judicial matters.

For more information, visit the AHA website at www.aha.org.