Rank: 80
Tina Freese Decker
President and CEO, Corewell Health
Freese Decker played a pivotal role last year in the merger of Beaumont Health and Spectrum Health to create Michigan’s largest health system, which she now runs. Corewell Health, which includes 22 hospitals and a health plan, was selected by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute this year to find ways to expedite clinical applications for proven research results. Freese Decker started at Spectrum Health as an administrative fellow in 2002 and advanced to become Spectrum’s president and CEO in 2018. She chairs the board of The Right Place—an economic development organization focused on Grand Rapids, Michigan—and serves as a Michigan Health and Hospital Association trustee. A member of the American Hospital Association’s Board of Trustees, she will chair the board in 2025.