Dartmouth Health has named Jonathan Welch, MD, MSc, as chief operating officer (COO). He will join the health system later this summer.
As system COO, Welch will work closely with leaders from across Dartmouth Health to strengthen integration, support the workforce and continue improving care delivery across the organization’s hospitals, clinics and services. He will oversee efforts to improve operational alignment across the system and support shared services including information technology, pharmacy, facilities and supply chain operations.
“Dr. Welch’s experience in academic and rural health settings positions him well to contribute to Dartmouth Health’s mission to enhance operational priorities and enable support to meet clinical priorities,” said Dartmouth Health CEO and president Joanne M. Conroy, MD.
Welch joins Dartmouth Health from Geisinger Health System in Danville, PA, where he served as chief population health officer and chief innovation officer, overseeing primary care, behavioral health and urgent care services. He also led enterprise initiatives focused on improving quality, access, and operational efficiency.
Throughout his career, Welch has led large multidisciplinary teams and managed extensive operational portfolios. His work has focused on improving access to care, advancing value-based care models and implementing systemwide initiatives designed to enhance patient outcomes and support care teams.
Welch earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed his emergency medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He earned a master’s degree in health policy from the London School of Economics and a bachelor’s degree in bioethics and population health from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
About Dartmouth Health
Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire’s only academic health system and largest private employer, serves patients across New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,300 providers in nearly every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH. Its network of hospitals, outpatient centers, clinics and home care facilities, spans a broad geographical area. Year after year, DHMC is named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and is consistently recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, northern New England’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers and one of less than than 60 total nationally; Dartmouth Health Children’s, which includes the state’s only children’s hospital (Children’s Hospital at DHMC/CHaD) and more than 20 locations around the region; eight member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene, Claremont, Hampstead, and New London, NH, and Windsor and Bennington, VT; Dartmouth Health Home Care; Dartmouth Health Connected Care Center for Telehealth, serving patients as far away as Texas; and more than 30 primary and multi-specialty clinics across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its partnership with Dartmouth College, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and the White River Junction VA Medical Center, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials with international impact. Dartmouth Health and its more than 16,000 employees are committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in the communities it serves and to providing every patient with exceptional, state-of-the-art, personalized care. Learn more at dartmouth-health.org.