Leadership

LifePoint's leadership team brings together integrity, skill, passion and vision in championing healthcare in non-urban communities across the country. Recognizing that a hospital's success is largely driven at the local level, our leadership team works in partnership with our hospitals and local facility leadership, in addition to our physician leaders and others, to advance high quality patient care and ensure operational excellence throughout our nationwide network of providers.

Senior Leadership

David M. Dill

President and Chief Executive Officer

David Dill is president and chief executive officer of LifePoint Health. He joined the company in 2007 as executive vice president and chief financial officer before serving in his most recent role as president and chief operating officer.

Before joining LifePoint, David was executive vice president of Fresenius Medical Care North America and chief executive officer in the East Division of Fresenius Medical Care Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA. Prior to this, he served as executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer of Renal Care Group, Inc., a publicly traded dialysis services company. David is also a former director of Psychiatric Solutions, Inc., a behavioral health services company. He has served on various governing boards for the American Hospital Association and is currently a member of the board of trustees for the Murray State University Foundation.

John P. Bumpus

Executive Vice President, Administration

John Bumpus serves as executive vice president, administration for LifePoint Health. In this role, he oversees human resources, communications, marketing and aviation. He previously served the company as senior vice president, human resources and administration.

Prior to joining LifePoint, John served as vice president, human resources for Province Healthcare Company. He also held various leadership positions during his tenure with The Kroger Company in the areas of strategic planning and implementation, human resources and other operations for the Nashville Marketing Area.

Michael S. Coggin

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Mike Coggin serves as executive vice president and chief financial officer for LifePoint Health, providing the company corporate and healthcare finance leadership.

Previously, Mike served as senior vice president and chief accounting officer for LifePoint since December 2008. In that role, he was responsible for the company's external financial reporting, corporate accounting and consolidation functions, tax functions and internal control compliance requirements. Additionally, he has held certain responsibilities associated with the company's treasury and finance functions.

Prior to joining LifePoint, Mike was chief financial officer of Specialty Care Services Group. He also served in finance leadership positions for Renal Care Group, Inc., from April 2004 until its acquisition by Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA in March 2006. He began his professional career as an auditor with KPMG Peat Marwick.

Victor E. Giovanetti, FACHE

Executive Vice President, Hospital Operations

As executive vice president, hospital operations, Victor Giovanetti provides operational oversight for LifePoint's four hospital divisions, as well as quality and clinical operations for the company. Previously, he served as president of LifePoint Health's former Eastern Group of hospitals. Victor joined LifePoint in 2013 as chief operating officer for the Eastern Group, before becoming Western Group president in 2015.

A fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, Victor has more than 30 years of progressive management and leadership experience in operations, legal, financial, clinical and strategic aspects of healthcare administration. He joined LifePoint in 2013 from HCA Lewis-Gale Regional Health System in Roanoke, Virginia, where he was president. Previously, he was CEO and COO of Southern Hills Medical Center, a 120-bed hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, and in operations management for the Mid-America Division of Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). Earlier in his career, Victor served in various management roles with HCA, Symbion and other healthcare organizations in Georgia.

Rob Jay

Executive Vice President, Integrated Operations

Rob Jay is executive vice president of integrated operations for LifePoint Health. In this role, he oversees integration, physician services, ambulatory (post-acute) services, growth and outreach, service line development, information technology, medical informatics, revenue cycle management, and managed care and payor transformation for the company.

Before joining LifePoint Health, Rob served as executive vice president and chief operating officer for RCCH HealthCare Partners, where he was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the company. Prior to RCCH, he spent seven years at Vanguard Health Systems (now Tenet Healthcare), where he served in a variety of operations and development positions, including vice president, supply chain management and vice president, development.

Jennifer Peters

Executive Vice President and General Counsel

In her role as executive vice president and general counsel at LifePoint Health, Jennifer Peters represents the company's interests in all legal matters impacting the organization; provides strategic legal guidance to the company's senior leadership and board of directors; oversees the company's corporate governance work; and manages the business of the legal department, ensuring the delivery of consistent legal guidance across the organization and in each of the communities LifePoint serves.

Prior to her current role, she was senior vice president, chief operations counsel. Before joining LifePoint, Jennifer served as general counsel, secretary and chief compliance officer for Simplex Healthcare, and vice president and associate general counsel at Community Health Systems prior to that. She also served as vice president and was part of the senior leadership team at a hospital in York, Pennsylvania for six years.

National Physician Advisory Board

Russell L. Holman, MD

Chief Medical Officer

Russell Holman, MD, joined LifePoint Health as chief medical officer in February 2013. As CMO, Dr. Holman oversees LifePoint's quality and patient safety programs, clinical effectiveness, care management, patient experience and engagement, physician leadership, clinical informatics and telemedicine.

Prior to joining LifePoint, Dr. Holman served as chief clinical officer of Cogent HMG, medical director of hospital services for HealthPartners Medical Group & Clinics in Bloomington, Minnesota and assistant director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the University of Minnesota.

In 1996, he founded one of the earliest hospitalist programs for Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 2000, he created one of the nation's first postgraduate Fellowship Programs in Hospital Medicine for HPMG&C. He co-authored and edited the textbook, Comprehensive Hospital Medicine, in 2007

Dr. Holman is a past president of the Society of Hospital Medicine, which in 2002 honored him with the Outstanding Service Award in Hospital Medicine and in 2011 appointed him one of only 10 Masters in Hospital Medicine in the United States.

John Andazola, MD, FAAFP

John Andazola, MD, FAAFP, is program director for the Southern New Mexico Family Medicine Residency Program in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He received his M.D. from the University of New Mexico School Of Medicine in 1997. During his post-graduate work, he completed a Family Medicine residency at the Southern New Mexico Family Medicine Residency Program, a fellowship in Advanced Hospital Training for Family Physicians (AHTFP) in Phoenix and a Faculty Development Fellowship at the University of Arizona. After completing his fellowships in 2003, Dr. Andazola joined the AHTFP faculty, where he served until 2009.

Dr. Andazola has been involved in academic medicine his entire career and has presented at numerous local, state and national conferences. He has authored several textbook chapters in a leading Family Medicine procedural textbook, as well as several publications. He is an active member of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors and the American Academy of Family Medicine, and he sits on several hospital and state committees. His major interests include medical education, integrated behavioral health and border health. He is an inaugural member of LifePoint’s National Physician Advisory Board.

Michael Alan Caplan, MD

Michael Alan Caplan, MD, is an inaugural member of LifePoint’s National Physician Advisory Board. Dr. Caplan practices at Piedmont Internal Medicine in Danville, Virginia, where he has served since 1986. He has more than 20 years of teaching and speaking experience and currently is an instructor for the Virginia Commonwealth of Osteopathic Medicine Residency Program at Sovah Health Danville. Dr. Caplan also serves as medical director of Gateway Health Alliance and is a member of the Medical Directors Leadership Committee for Sentara Healthcare. He has been a board member for LifePoint’s Danville Regional Medical Center for the past 14 years and has served in positions at the hospital including chairman of the Department of Medicine, chief of staff and director of the Intensive Care and Coronary Care Units.

Dr. Caplan earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland in Baltimore and conducted research in immunology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore before earning his medical doctorate from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Dr. Caplan is a member of the American Medical Association, the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons, the American Society of Internal Medicine, Virginia Medical Society and the National Lipid Association.

William G. Cloud, MD

William G. Cloud, MD is a general surgeon at Fauquier Health in Warrenton, Virginia, and a member of Fauquier Health General Surgery since 2012.

Dr. Cloud has more than 30 years in practice and in surgical resident instruction. He currently serves as a director of Fauquier Health’s University of Virginia Surgical Residency Program, and participates on the University of Virginia’s Assessment Committee for the Department of Medical Education, as well as the hospital’s Graduate Medical Education and Cancer Service Line committees.

Dr. Cloud joined LifePoint’s Fauquier Health from private practice with Charlotte Surgical Group and a solo practice in Morganton, North Carolina. He served for 18 years on the teaching faculty for surgical residents at Carolinas Medical Center, as well as the Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Dr. Cloud earned his undergraduate degree from Davidson College and his medical degree from the University of Virginia. He completed a fellowship and residency at the University of Virginia, and obtained a Master of Academic Medicine degree from Keck Medical School at the University of Southern California.

He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the Muller-Jones Postgraduate Surgical Society, the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract and the Association for Surgical Education.

Jonathan Barry Dixon, MD

Jonathan Barry Dixon, MD, is a family practitioner who has practiced at LifePoint’s Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital in Somerset, Kentucky, since 1991. Prior to that, Dr. Dixon was a resident physician at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Edgewood, Kentucky.

Dr. Dixon is a member of the Kentucky Academy of Family Physicians, the Kentucky Medical Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Medical Association and the County Medical Society. He currently is president of Lake Cumberland Medical Associates in Somerset, and he is a past chief of staff at Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital. Dr. Dixon also is company physician for General Electric in Somerset and the founder of Bethesda Clinic for indigent patients in Somerset. He is a board member for the Hal Rogers Boys and Girls Club.

Dr. Dixon earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky in Lexington and his medical doctorate from the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He is an inaugural member of LifePoint’s National Physician Advisory Board.

William Hunter Housman, MD

William Hunter Housman, MD, has been a hospitalist with MESA Medical Group in Lexington, Kentucky since 2010. At MESA, Dr. Housman serves as director of education, which includes recruitment, new provider orientation and quality assurance. He previously was medical director of the practice. Prior to MESA, Dr. Housman was a hospitalist with Kentucky Inpatient Medicine Associates in Paris, Kentucky, and also served as chief of staff.

Dr. Housman received his M.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and completed a Categorical Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center in Lexington. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, the Society of Hospital Medicine and the Kentucky Medical Association. Dr. Housman is an inaugural member of LifePoint’s National Physician Advisory Board.

Michael A. (Tony) Kelly, MD, FACEP

Michael A. (Tony) Kelly, MD, FACEP, is a healthcare executive and emergency medicine physician with 30 years of experience in medical setting management and clinical excellence solutions.

Since 2002, Dr. Kelly has served as regional medical director for TeamHealth Atlantic, where he is responsible for physician and midlevel emergency medicine management and staffing of healthcare facilities in West Virginia and Virginia. Prior to this, Dr. Kelly was president and CEO of Kelly Medical Corporation, Medical Services, Inc. and Health Care Alliance, Inc., which was acquired by TeamHealth in 2002. He has served as chief of staff at Raleigh General Hospital and chairman of Emergency Services at a number of client hospitals during his three decades of service.

Dr. Kelly earned his medical doctorate from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine, and is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the American College of Emergency Medicine and the West Virginia State Medical Association, and is past-president of the West Virginia Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He is an inaugural member of LifePoint’s National Physician Advisory Board.

Collaborative Leadership