December 12, 2023- CommonSpirit Health has selected Terika Richardson as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, effective December 11, 2023. Richardson will serve as a member of the organization’s Executive Leadership Team and report to CEO Wright Lassiter III.
Richardson joins CommonSpirit with extensive executive operations experience and a rare blend of nonprofit and for profit as well as faith-based health care. As the organization’s Chief Operating Officer, she will provide both strategic and operations-related leadership, ensuring optimal operating effectiveness for the organization and its operating regions. Richardson will help drive opportunities to innovate the system and lead the organization’s efforts to achieve its growth targets related to revenue and market share, identify opportunities for growth in our operating regions, support regional executives and local leaders in pursuit of their goals and objectives, and help identify and implement physician alignment strategies to reach our quality and patient safety goals.
Prior to joining CommonSpirit, Richardson served as the Chief Operating Officer at Ardent Health Services in Tennessee, providing operational oversight of the system’s 30 hospitals and 200 care sites. While there, she realigned the service portfolio to better meet the needs of the communities the system served as well as the system’s overarching business priorities.