100 Most Influential People in Healthcare – 2018
Rank 46
Patricia Maryland
Executive vice president, Ascension; president and CEO, Ascension Healthcare
Maryland has been at the forefront of pushing Ascension to tackle one of the nation's most pressing healthcare issues: access to behavioral healthcare. Under her leadership, the large not-for-profit provider developed a behavioral health service line. She's also spoken publicly and penned opinion pieces advocating for a more coordinated approach to addressing the opioid epidemic.