Community Hospital

Topic:  Community Hospital has gone through some tremendous growth and achieved some major accomplishments over the past few years.  Here to share with us the recent Community Hospital story is Chris Thomas, president and CEO of Colorado West Healthcare System, a position he has held since 2008. While at Community Hospital, Thomas has helped move the organization out of extreme OIG sanctions, seen revenue has grown tremendously, recruited 44 new physicians in just the last two years, and opened a brand new four-story, 142,000 square foot, state-of-the-art hospital in March of 2016. Under Chris’s leadership, Community Hospital was chosen as the Grand Junction Chamber Business of the Year in 2015 and Daily Sentinel readers selected Community Hospital as the “Best of the West” for medical facilities.

Bio:  Thomas holds a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. Prior to joining Community Hospital, Thomas was the executive director and chief administrative officer of ILS Resource Management. Thomas has worked as a healthcare executive for over 20 years. He is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.  Chris has been married for more than 25 years and he and his wife have three daughters and a son. In his spare time, he and his family enjoy traveling, mostly to participate in triathlons throughout the world.