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Summa Health Names Tanya Arthur Chief Information Officer

Date: 01/08/2018

AKRON, Ohio, January 8, 2018 – Summa Health has announced the appointment of Tanya Arthur as its new senior vice president and chief information officer.
Arthur joins Summa Health from Catholic Health Initiatives in Colorado, where she has served in a number of senior leadership roles responsible for information technology, strategic planning and operations management. At Summa, she will provide leadership for IT infrastructure, administrative systems, project management, IT security, customer service, imaging informatics, telecommunications, ambulatory systems, clinical systems and analytics infrastructure.
Prior to joining Catholic Health Initiatives in 2005, Arthur served in IT leadership roles at the healthcare consultancy Arthur & Adams, as well as Physicians Mutual Insurance Company, Jefferson Pilot Financial and University of Nebraska Medical Center.
“Tanya brings with her to Summa Health a wide range of leadership experience across all aspects of healthcare information technology,” said Dr. Cliff Deveny, Summa Health president and CEO. “Having worked alongside her during my time at Catholic Health Initiatives, I’m confident she will be successful in continuing to develop and evolve our IT environment across the organization.”
Arthur holds a M.S. in computer information systems from Bellevue University in Bellevue, Nebraska and a B.S. in biology from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. She will join Summa Health on January 23, replacing Greg Kall who retired in December after serving as the organization’s CIO since 2006.


About Summa Health

Summa Health is one of the largest integrated healthcare delivery systems in Ohio. Encompassing a network of hospitals, community health centers, a health plan, a physician-hospital organization, a multi-specialty physician organization, research and the Summa Health Foundation, we are nationally renowned for excellence in patient care and for exceptional approaches to healthcare delivery. Summa’s clinical services are consistently recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (Magnet status), U.S. News and World Report, Thomson Reuters and The Leapfrog Group. For more information, visit summahealth.org or find us on Facebook at facebook.com/summahealth and Twitter, twitter.com/summahealth.

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