Reynold J. Jennings, LFACHE

Mr. Jennings currently serves as co-chair of Kennesaw State University’s capital campaign for the WellStar College of Health and Human Services. He also serves as a preceptor for KSU master’s degree candidates in the Department of Exercise Science. He is a trustee at the United Methodist Church of Marietta for both the church and its foundation, and currently advises on public health guidelines for COVID-19 mitigation. Mr. Jennings also provides strategy advice to several companies with health insurance, clinical care organization and revenue cycle solution products.

Mr. Jennings has had extensive experience as a hands-on hospital operating executive for over 30 years. From 2011-2016, he was president and chief executive officer of WellStar Health System, a health system with five hospitals, more than 12,000 employees and 1,126 medical staff members. There, he led the acquisition of the five Tenet Healthcare Atlanta facilities to make WellStar the largest healthcare system in Georgia and the third largest in the Southeastern U.S.

Prior to WellStar, Mr. Jennings served in vice chairman and chief operating officer roles with Tenet Healthcare Corporation. As Tenet’s COO, he was responsible for operational oversight of its 69 core acute care hospitals and other facilities in 13 states. He began his healthcare career at Hamilton Medical Center in Dalton, Georgia as a pharmacist, rising to the position of senior vice president and COO. From 1983-1991, he was CEO of a number of acute care hospitals, including Doctors Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Clearwater Community Hospital in Clearwater, Florida, and Palms of Pasadena Hospital, a St. Petersburg, Florida facility. In 1991, he was promoted to SVP with responsibility for National Medical Enterprises’ acute care hospitals in Texas, Missouri and West Florida, later joining Ramsay Health Care as COO and eventually becoming CEO. After re-joining Tenet Healthcare in 1997, he became SVP of the Gulf States Region and in 2004 became COO.

Mr. Jennings is a Life Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and served as a board member and officer of the American Federation of Hospitals. He has a Master of Science Degree in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina at Columbia and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Pharmacy from the University of Georgia.