Corewell Health’s Freese Decker Named AHA Chair-elect Designate

AHA Chair John Haupert, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack, AHA Chair-elect Designate Tina Freese Decker and AHA Chair-elect Joanne Conroy, M.D kicked off the 2023 AHA Leadership Summit in Seattle.

The American Hospital Association (AHA) Board of Trustees elected Tina Freese Decker, president & chief executive officer, Corewell Health as its Chair-elect Designate July 16. Freese Decker will be Chair-elect in 2024 and become the Chair of the AHA in 2025, the top-elected official of the national organization that represents America’s hospitals and health systems and works to advance health in America.

“We have many challenges and many opportunities ahead of us,” said Freese Decker. “The greatest opportunity is to showcase our innovation, grit and compassion to evolve and transform health care. I look forward to serving the AHA and its members in our pursuit of better health.”

Freese Decker has been heavily engaged with the MHA, previously serving as MHA Board Chair during the 2021-2022 program year, and remains on the MHA Board of Trustees as a trustee at-large.