Black PR Wire Power Profiler on Andrea R. Price, FACHE

Andrea Price serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mercy, a seven-hospital health system, and Mercy College of Ohio, headquartered in Toledo, Ohio. Mercy has more than 7,500 employees, 1,350 medical staff members and net revenues of nearly $900 million. Mercy is the largest region of its parent company Catholic Health Partners, Cincinnati. Andrea joined Mercy in the fall of 2009 as Chief Operating Officer, at which time she assumed responsibility for the operations and performance of Mercy’s seven hospitals. One year later, she was promoted to lead the organization.

She is board certified in healthcare management and a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. As a member of ACHE, Andrea has served on the Voluntary Giving Committee, the Confidential Committee, the Board of Governors, the Governance Implementation Task Force, the Regent’s Advisory Council, the Nominating Committee, Regent-at-Large, the Finance Committee, the Governance Ad Hoc Task Force and the Bylaws Committee.

In April 2008, Andrea was selected by Modern Healthcare Magazine as one of the “Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare.” In September 2008, she received the “ACHE Distinguished Service Award” from the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Michigan Healthcare Executive Group and Associates. In October 2008, she received the Distinguished Senior Healthcare Executive Award from the National Association of Health Services Executives (NAHSE).

Andrea was also the 2010 recipient of the Midwest Healthcare Executives Group and Associates (MHEGA) Regent’s Senior Level Healthcare Executive Award, which recognizes healthcare executives with more than 20 years of healthcare experience for their significant contributions toward the achievement of the goals of the ACHE and the advancement of healthcare management excellence. In addition to serving as a board member for MHEGA, Andrea is the National President for the National Association of Health Services Executives, a non-profit designed to advance and develop black healthcare leaders and elevate the quality of healthcare services rendered to minority and underserved communities.