Pa. trauma board appoints new member to ranks
John I. Lewis, president and CEO of Armstrong Center for Medicine and Health (ACMH), was appointed to the Pennsylania Trauma Systems Foundation Board of Directors.
Lewis joins a 20-member team of directors who govern the activities of the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation (PTSF), the accrediting body for trauma centers in Pennsylvania. The foundation supports hospitals with trauma care for injured patients, and its board is made up of professionals in the emergency health care industry.
“It is indeed an honor to be associated with the Pennsylvania Systems Foundation and to play an active role in carrying out their mission,” Lewis said in a statement. “I look forward to sharing my experience, knowledge and insight with the team.”
Lewis has served as the president and CEO of ACMH and its subsidiary corporations, including ACMH Hospital in Kittanning, for the past 18 years. He is the chairman and a principle founder of CHART, the largest hospital medical liability insurer and the fifth largest physician insurance provider in Pennsylvania.
Lewis is also a member and past chairman of the Pennsylvania Mountain Healthcare Alliance (PMHA), a 15-hospital consortium that provides its members with health insurance, group purchasing, patient accounting and billing and revenue cycle support. He serves on the board of the Armstrong County Hospital Authority, and is the secretary and treasurer for the Clinical Connect Community Health Information Exchange (CCHIE), a health information exchange consortium in Pennsylvania.
He is also a foundation board member of the Butler County Community College, and a board member of the Healthcare Council of Western Pennsylvania (HCWP). In addition, Lewis is a governor’s office appointee to the Pennsylvania Rural Health Redesign Center Authority.
