Board Leadership - Non-Legislative Trustees

Ryland P. (Skip) Davis

Owner & Principal, Amicus Healthcare Solutions

Skip Davis recently retired as Chief Executive Officer of ProvVentures in March 2009. He was Chief Executive Officer of Providence Health Care (a five hospital regional delivery network) from 1996 to 2008 and CEO of Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital, a major regional referral center for the Inland Northwest, located in Spokane, WA. In his career of 42 years, he worked with for-profit and not-for-profit healthcare organizations spanning the continuum of care, including hospitals, managed care organizations, clinics and hospital management firms and a large regional reference laboratory. He guided hospitals through reorganization, mergers, joint ventures, expansion and the many changes that are inherent to today's healthcare environment. He consistently achieved outstanding quality and satisfaction scores, Top 100 Hospital recognition and operated the organizations profitably with excellent productivity. He has been considered a strategic visionary, collaborator and creative entrepreneur innovator by his peers.

Significant accomplishments include the creation of a number of innovative and successful joint ventures and new companies spanning the spectrum from the latest genomic technology, IT and software products to creative partnerships with physicians to provide essential services benefitting the most needy.

Skip is a Fellow in the American College of Health Care Executives and has published articles in Modern Healthcare, Health Week, and other business publications regarding healthcare issues and perspectives. He earned a BA degree from the Virginia Military Institute, in 1962, where he was honored as a Distinguished Military Graduate and completed an MBA with a focus in healthcare management from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in 1968. He served his administrative residency at University of California Medical Center, San Francisco.

Skip chaired the Spokane Area Chamber of Commerce in 2006, remains on the Boy Scouts of America Inland Northwest Council Board, and is a member of the Washington State University President's Advisory Council. He is the current Board Chair of the Institute for System Medicine and is a board member of Red Lion Hotels, and Providence Associated Medical Laboratories (nationally, the 6th largest reference lab).