TriHealth Board of Trustees News

The TriHealth Board of Trustees announced that Ralph (Mike) Michael (pictured right) has been elected Chair of the Board. Michael previously served as Chair from 2019 to 2022, as well as two terms as Vice Chair. He replaces Kathy Kelly, who has been a member of the TriHealth Board since 2019 and who has served as Chair since 2022. Kelly will remain on the Board as a trustee.

“I am honored to again serve as Chairperson of the TriHealth Board of Trustees,” said Michael. “Since joining TriHealth’s Board, I have had the privilege to work closely with the trustees and TriHealth’s outstanding senior leadership team and am excited to be a part of TriHealth’s mission to improve the health status of the people we serve.”

Ralph (Mike) Michael

In addition, Cynthia Booth will assume the role of Vice Chair of the Board. Elizabeth Mangan will join the TriHealth Board of Trustees following the departure of Phil Castellini, who served on the TriHealth Board since 2016. Castellini departs from the TriHealth Board after serving for nine years.

“With their extensive business, leadership, and community service experience, we are fortunate to have Mike and Cynthia step into these important board leadership roles as we advance our transformational work of getting healthcare right for the communities we serve through better care, better health and better value,” said TriHealth President and CEO, Mark C. Clement. “I would also like to thank Kathy for her exceptional leadership over the last three years, a time marked by our health system’s impressive growth and establishment as a national model for Getting Health Care Right, all in service to our patients and community. Lastly, I want to thank Phil for his invaluable commitment to the Board and welcome Elizabeth as we continue transforming healthcare in Cincinnati for the better through enhanced access to care, improved outcomes and advancing our model of Population Health!”

Michael, who joined the TriHealth Board in 2014, also serves as Chairman of the Cincinnati Region of Fifth Third Bank (Greater Cincinnati). He previously served at the company’s EVP and Head of Wealth and Asset Management, and before that as its EVP and Group Regional President. He joined Fifth Third in 2010.

Booth, a Cincinnati native, is President and CEO of Emerge Manufacturing, an onshore manufacturer of personal protective equipment. She previously served as President, CEO and owner of COBCO Enterprises/McDonalds, a privately held company that owns and operates McDonald’s Franchises throughout the greater Cincinnati region. She also previously worked for Firstar bank (now US Bank), where she was one of the highest-ranking female executives and the only African American serving at an executive level.

Mangan, a 25-year veteran of the real estate industry, is CEO of Miller Valentine, a dynamic organization that includes both Miller Valentine Construction and MV Investment. She is responsible for defining the company’s strategic vision and overseeing its expansion and growth. Additionally, she is active in multiple professional and charitable associations including the Cincinnati Regional Business Committee, YPO; and the Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation.

TriHealth’s diverse Board of Trustees is comprised of representatives appointed by the system’s two sponsors, Bethesda Inc. and CommonSpirit Health, Medical Staff Presidents for Bethesda North and Good Samaritan Hospitals, and TriHealth President and CEO Mark C. Clement. The Board of Trustees serves as the governing body for the TriHealth system as a whole, which includes Bethesda North and Good Samaritan Hospitals, our community and specialty hospitals, thirteen major ambulatory centers and TriHealth Physicians Partners, the system’s physician enterprise.