Member Hospitals

WNC Health Network exists to convene and connect stakeholders and provide support for our members and partners to improve health and healthcare across our region.
Our vision is to support healthy and thriving communities and care systems in western North Carolina.
Our values are collaboration, integrity, respect, and innovation. We are patient- and community-centered and we are focused on results.
Our philosophy and values are rooted in a deep commitment to equity. For us, this commitment begins with an understanding of the history of our region, a responsibility to recognize the ways in which our role in the region can foster or hinder increased equity, and humility in naming and changing our own “how” when our ongoing learning and listening reveals the need.
In 1995, a group of dedicated individuals decided to make a difference in healthcare in western North Carolina. They began to identify, explore, and implement opportunities to collaborate among the area’s hospitals and healthcare systems. WNC Health Network, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation, includes 17 hospitals in western North Carolina.
Collaboration started with quality improvement and achieving cost savings and value through aggregation of group purchasing volume. It developed over time to include a regional health information exchange and focus on population health. In 2013, Capstone Health Alliance was created as a separate, wholly owned subsidiary of WNC Health Network to house the group purchasing program.
Today, WNC Health Network, an alliance of 17 hospitals in western North Carolina, works together and with partners to improve health and healthcare. Partners in western North Carolina, along with member hospitals, are engaged to foster healthy and thriving communities and care systems.
Steve Heatherly
Chair
CEO, Swain Community Hospital / Harris Regional Hospital
Karen Gorby
Vice-Chair
President & CNO, Angel Medical Center
Tracy T. Buchanan
Treasurer
President & CEO, CarePartners Health Services
TBD
Secretary
Cory Reeves
President & CEO, AdventHealth Hendersonville
Tonia Hale
CEO & CNO, Blue Ridge Regional Hospital
Stephanie A. Young
Medical Center Director, Charles George VA Medical Center
Casey M. Cooper
CEO, Cherokee Indian Hospital
Stephanie Boynton
CEO, Erlanger Western Carolina Hospital
Greg Caples
CEO, Haywood Regional Medical Center
Tom Neal
CEO/CNO, Highlands-Cashiers Hospital
Chad Patrick
CEO, Mission Hospital
Carol Wolfenbarger
President, Mission Hospital McDowell
James Kirby, II
President & CEO, Pardee UNC Health Care
Rebecca Segal
President & CEO, Rutherford Regional Health System
Michelle Fortune
CEO, St. Luke’s Hospital
Michele Pilon
President & CNO, Transylvania Regional Hospital