Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare – 2010
Richard Cordova
President and CEO, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
Richard Cordova is president and CEO of 286-bed Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, a position he has held since 2005. Cordova, 60, was president of the Southern California region of the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, with responsibility for 11 hospitals and a 3 million-member health plan, from 2002 to 2004. He joined Kaiser Permanente in 1999 as chief operating officer for Southern California in 1999. He was the CEO of San Francisco General Hospital from 1991 to 1997.