Biography - Earl Greenia

Earl Greenia has 25 years diverse experience in healthcare operations, quality management and strategic planning. Most recently, he served as the founding CEO of Gold Coast Health Plan, a public entity HMO for over 100,000 Medicaid beneficiaries in Ventura County, California. Previously, he served as the CEO for the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation - West Hawaii Region (2 hospitals, a medical group and an ambulatory surgery center) where he led a successful financial turn-around (from annual losses of $7 million to a $4.5 million excess), significant improvement in physician satisfaction and clinical quality (core measure scores increased from 69% to 97%), as well as adding new services (notably, the Kona hospital was the first in the state to begin functioning as a Level-3 trauma center). Dr. Greenia has worked in several settings, including government, for-profit, not-for-profit, academic medical centers as well as a Children’s hospital. He has held positions with Tenet Healthcare in southern California, Sharp Healthcare, UCLA Medical Center, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, and the City of Cambridge Massachusetts. He holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Vermont, completed graduate coursework in healthcare operations and strategic planning through the extension school at Harvard University, and earned a Master of Health Administration and Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Southern California. He is board-certified in healthcare management and is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.