Mark Wietecha is among the nation’s best known and most respected advisers to academic medical centers, with a particular focus on advising children’s hospitals. He has decades of experience providing sophisticated business counsel across academic medicine on issues relating to strategy, merger, affiliation, redevelopments and governance.
Mark’s practice focuses on the future, strategy and governance of the academic health care delivery system and evolving the relationships between the clinical, educational, research and community missions. He is nationally known for his work on mergers, organizational integration and university affiliations, with many of his projects counted among the most significant case studies of the past 30 years. Additionally, Mark has a career interest in and deep global knowledge of children’s hospitals from both a policy and delivery systems perspective.
During his 12-year tenure serving as the former and founding Chief Executive Officer of the Children’s Hospital Association (CHA), the Association grew substantially to become a national change agent in the quality, safety and delivery of pediatric care. Mark’s leadership was fundamental to its successes supporting children and families, and he played a critical role in the federal pandemic financial relief of children’s hospitals and related high-Medicaid providers. Prior to joining CHA, Mark served as a senior partner and executive chairman of a global consulting firm and founded its academic medical center consultancy within the firm’s health care sector.