Top 25 COOs in Healthcare - 2018

Wallace has served as executive vice president and COO at Kindred since February 2015. Kindred reported $6 billion in revenue in 2017. The post-acute provider operates nearly 2,700 facilities--long-term care, rehabilitation, home health and more--in 46 states. Previously, Wallace was CEO of RegionalCare Hospital Partners, a Brentwood, Tenn.-based operator of community hospitals, for almost eight years. He also served as president and COO of Vanguard Health Systems, where he helped develop the company's integrated-care market strategy, and held leadership roles at Province Healthcare Co., Tenet Healthcare Corp. and HCA Holdings. Humana and private equity firms TPG Capital and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stow have proposed a $4.1 billion acquisition of Kindred.