Jan Jennings entered healthcare administration as an Officer in the U.S. Air Force Medical Service Corps in 1970. He earned a Master’s Degree in Health Administration from the University of Pittsburgh in 1976. He served the Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh and the Shadyside Hospital between 1974 and 1980. At the age of 33 he assumed his first CEO position at St. Luke’s Memorial Hospital in Utica, New York and won the prestigious Young Hospital Administrator of the Year Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) in 1983. He served as CEO of the Millard Fillmore Hospital System for ten years in Buffalo. In 1993 he became the CEO of Children’s Memorial Hospital (Chicago) in affiliation with Northwestern University Medical School. Mr. Jennings has taught Health Policy at the Jacobs School of Management at the University at Buffalo and served on the adjunct faculty of the Graduate School of Public Health, Program in Health Administration, University of Pittsburgh. Mr. Jennings is a member of the faculty of the American College of Healthcare Executives. He was CEO at Jefferson Regional Medical School in Pittsburgh and launched a dramatic turnaround from 2000 to 2003. He founded American Healthcare Solutions in 2004 and has advocated for those hospitals, physicians and health systems that have struggled, both financially and clinically. Mr. Jennings is known to express strong policy positions with respect to healthcare reform and is frequently referred to as America’s “Health Care Thought Provocateur.”

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