Welcome, Janice Dunn, Chief Financial Officer
June 11, 2019
Athens, Ga. – Janice Dunn, a highly experienced healthcare finance executive from Georgia’s Golden Isles, has been named the new Chief Financial Officer for St. Mary’s Health Care System, including our hospitals in Athens, Lavonia and Greensboro, medical group, multi-county home health care/hospice agency, and retirement community.
Janice Dunn
Dunn comes to St. Mary’s with more than 30 years of progressive experience in accounting, fiscal management, and financial leadership. She has served as CFO for Southeast Georgia Health System in Brunswick, Ga.; Saint Joseph Health System near South Bend, Indiana; St. Joseph Medical Center near Baltimore, Maryland, and Southwest General Hospital near Cleveland, Ohio.
She earned her bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Akron in Ohio and her master’s degree in business administration from Cleveland State University, also in Ohio.
“Janice brings a wealth of skills and experience to our ministry,” said St. Mary’s President and CEO Montez Carter. “In addition to her leadership at Southeast Georgia, a system that is quite comparable in size and scope to St. Mary’s, she has served in Catholic hospitals in Indiana and Maryland. She understands how to provide effective financial leadership that is aligned with our core mission and values in today’s complex healthcare environment. We are pleased and honored to have her on board.”
St. Mary’s Health Care System is a faith-based, not-for-profit health care system whose mission is to be a compassionate and transforming healing presence in the communities it serves. A regional health ministry within Trinity Health, St. Mary’s provides a comprehensive continuum of care with special focus on neurosciences, cardiac care, orthopedics, general medicine, general surgery, women’s health, and care for older adults. Its hospitals are St. Mary’s Hospital in Athens, St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital in Lavonia, and St. Mary’s Good Samaritan Hospital in Greensboro.