Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare - 2016

Reddy, 68, founded the Ontario, Calif.-based health system in 2001. He built the first hospital, Desert Valley Hospital in Victorville, Calif., in 1994 and has since expanded the private, for-profit system to 42 hospitals in 14 states. Prime has a record of acquiring troubled or underperforming hospitals and turning them around. In 2008, Reddy, an internist and cardiologist, founded Prime Healthcare Services Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that now owns eight hospitals. He and his family commit time, money and other resources to charity care nationally and internationally through that organization and the Dr. Prem Reddy Family Foundation. This is his second year on the list of Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare.