David Strong

President & CEO, Orlando Health, Orlando

Orlando Health is a not-for-profit healthcare organization with $9.6 billion in assets under management that serves the Southeastern U.S. and Puerto Rico. Strong joined the organization in April 2015. Nearly 5,000 physicians representing more than 100 medical specialties and subspecialties have privileges across the system, which employs more than 29,000 team members and more than 1,400 physicians. Orlando Health provided nearly $1.3 billion in total impact to the communities it serves in the form of community-benefit programs and services, Medicare shortfalls, bad debt, community-building activities, and capital investments in fiscal year 2022, the most recent period for which this information is available.

EDUCATION: Southern Nazarene University (BS), Xavier University (MHA)

WHAT I’VE LEARNED: To understand the difference between the business of health care and clinical care provided. We shouldn’t confuse the business we’re in with the incredible work we do.