Obituary: Former AHA Chair David Reed
Longtime health care executive and former AHA Chair David Reed died last month at age 91.
Reed's career began at Cincinnati General Hospital, where he was an assistant administrator before becoming president of Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City in 1979. He then served as CEO of Samaritan Health System, now Banner Health, in Arizona in 1989. The next year, he became AHA chair as well as CEO of St. Joseph Health System in Orange, Calif. He was later appointed chairman of the board for PacifiCare, where he served until his retirement in 2003.
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