Hennepin Healthcare System CEO announces resignation

Today Hennepin Healthcare System Chief Executive Officer Jon L. Pryor, MD, MBA, announced his resignation. The healthcare system board will meet this week to consider John Cumming, MD, MBA as acting chief executive.

“It has been an honor to lead this outstanding organization for the past six years,” said Pryor. “I am grateful for the opportunity to have worked with such passionate, mission-driven people who are so thoroughly committed to caring for our community.”

Pryor joined Hennepin Healthcare System in April, 2013. Under his leadership the system expanded its clinic network by opening clinics in new markets and renovating and expanding existing clinics.

In 2015, the system added home care and hospice through the integration of MVNA and last year Hennepin Healthcare System opened a six-story, 377,000 sq. ft. Clinic & Specialty Center consolidating most of its clinics on the downtown campus into a new state-of-the-art facility.

“We are grateful to Dr. Pryor for leading us through this period of growth,” said Sheila Riggs, DDS, MS, DMSc, Hennepin Healthcare System board chair. “He is an innovator who helped the organization reconnect with the community and Hennepin Healthcare System is stronger today because of his leadership.”

A search for a new CEO will begin later this month.

About Hennepin Healthcare System
Hennepin Healthcare System is an integrated system of care that includes HCMC, a nationally recognized Level I Adult Trauma Center and Level I Pediatric Trauma Center and a growing network of neighborhood clinics. The comprehensive healthcare system includes a 473-bed hospital, a large outpatient Clinic & Specialty Center, and a network of neighborhood clinics downtown and in the North Loop, Whittier, and East Lake Street neighborhoods of Minneapolis and the suburban communities of Brooklyn Park, Golden Valley, Richfield, and St. Anthony Village. Hennepin Healthcare System has a large psychiatric program, EMS service, home care and hospice, and operates a research institute, innovation center and philanthropic foundation.