Donna M. O’Brien, President of Community Healthcare Strategies, leads a nationally focused consulting practice in healthcare strategy, operations, and clinical program development. She has over 25 years experience in academic medical centers, multi-institutional health systems and community hospitals. Her leadership positions have included serving as: Executive Vice President of Catholic Health Services of Long Island (a $1.3B health system with five hospitals, four nursing homes, homecare/hospice), Associate Director for the Alliance for Catholic Health and Human Services in New York (a healthcare network with 17 hospitals and 15 nursing homes) and Assistant Administrator for hospital administration at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. She has national and regional experience in the design and formation of health systems, networks, and partnerships, including a merger of health systems to form a 35-hospital system, health and human services networks, and partnerships with physicians.

Donna has served on over 15 boards, councils and commissions and she recently completed service on the Governor of New York State’s Commission on Healthcare Facilities for the Twenty First Century. She was a founding board member of the Christus Health System which is a Dallas-based healthcare organization with approximately 40 hospitals in the U.S. and Mexico. She is a Member of the Board of Regents of Seton Hall University, where she is Chair of the Audit Committee, and serves on the Finance and Academic Affairs Committees.

Over the past 20 years, she has served on the Board of Directors of three different national hospital systems which has given her exposure to a variety of markets across the U.S. She served on the Board of Directors and Operations Committee for a health insurance company and as Chair of the Board of a Psychiatric Hospital.

Donna is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and has her Masters in Health Administration from St. Louis University. She is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.