HJNO Nov/Dec 2020

Q&A 16 NOV / DEC 2020 I  HEALTHCARE JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS   JOAN COFFMAN PRESIDENT & CEO ST. TAMMANY HEALTH SYSTEM JoanM. Coffman is the president and CEOof St. Tammany Health System in Covington, Louisiana.The system’s hospital, St. Tammany Parish Hospital, is a 232-bed acute care not-for-profit community hospital with expansion projects and further service line developments underway. The facility has a long-term partnership with Ochsner Health, over 400 providers and 2,400 staff members. Prior to St. Tammany, Coffman served as president and CEO of Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) St. Mary’s Hospital of Decatur, IL (2017-2018) and as president and CEO of HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital of Chippewa Falls, WI (2008-2017). She served as CEO of the Louisiana Clinic, a multispecialty physician clinic in New Orleans, and as the assistant administrator of Lindy Boggs Medical Center in New Orleans until 2005, when the facility closed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Coffman earned her Bachelor of Science Degree from the College of St. Francis, Joliet, Illinois and a Master of Business Administration from the University of New Orleans. She returned to the New Orleans area in 2018 when she became the president and CEO of St. Tammany Health System, where she began a career as a radiologic technologist. She is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) and currently serves as chair for the Nominating Committee of the Governing Council for the American Hospital Association’s Section for Small or Rural Hospitals. She is a member of the 2019 class of Leadership St. Tammany, was inducted into Marquis Who’s Who in 2020 and serves on numerous boards, including the Northshore Healthcare Alliance, the Metropolitan Hospital Council of New Orleans, the Northshore Business Council and the Ochsner Health Network Board. Q & A