A suburban Chicago hospital administrator has been appointed president and CEO of Health Quest, the regional system of hospitals and medical offices in Dutchess and Putnam counties.
Luke McGuinness will join Health Quest immediately and begin full-time work at its LaGrangeville headquarters next Jan. 1, the organization”™s board of trustees recently announced.Â
McGuinness, who has more than 35 years of experience as a health system CEO, most recently was president and CEO of Cadence Health, a two-hospital system in suburban Winfield, Ill. He previously was president and CEO of Central DuPage Health, a 313-bed hospital in Illinois.
Before taking the Central DuPage post, McGuinness was senior vice president of development at Vanguard Health Systems in Nashville, Tenn. He joined Vanguard after serving 21 years as president and CEO of MacNeal Health Network in Berwyn, a suburb of Chicago.
McGuinness received his bachelor”™s degree from the University of Notre Dame and his master”™s degree from George Washington University.
The Health Quest system includes Northern Dutchess Hospital in Rhinebeck, Putnam Hospital Center in Carmel and Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie.
Serving as interim co-CEOs at Health Quest prior to the McGuinness appointment were Donna McGregor, its executive vice president and chief operating officer, and Denise George, Health Quest senior vice president of clinical services and president and CEO of Northern Dutchess Hospital.
