Catherine A. Jacobson, CPA
President & Chief Executive Officer
Froedtert Health
Catherine Jacobson serves as president and CEOof Froedtert Health, aregional healthcaresystem based inMilwaukee, Wisconsin. Jacobson joined Froedtert Health in 2010 as executive vice president of finance and strategy, chief financial officer and chief strategy officer. She was promoted in 2011, becoming President andin 2012, she assumed the CEO role. Prior to joining Froedtert Health,Jacobson spent 22 years at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago in variousleadership roles.
Jacobson served as the voluntary nationalChairof the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) during the 2009-10 term. A member of HFMA since 1989, herinvolvement with HFMA includes serving on the national Board of Directors from 2004-2010 and the Principles & Practices Board from 1995-2001 serving as chair during 2000-01.
Current board appointments include Mercy Health of Ohio (formerly Catholic Health Partners), Vizient (formerly VHA-UHC Alliance), United Way of Greater Milwaukee,the Greater Milwaukee Committee and Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce as well as other boards representing partnerships of Froedtert Health. She is also the current chair of the board of the Wisconsin Hospital Association Board.
Jacobson’s recognitions include Becker’s Hospital Review 2014 Health Care Leaders Award, and one of Becker’s 24 Leading Women to Know in Healthcare. She was recognized as a Women of Influence by the Milwaukee Business Journal in 2013 and received an honorable mention as Executive of the Year in 2014 and 2016. Jacobson received an honorary degree of Doctor of Healthcare Leadership from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2015.
Jacobsonis a member of Healthcare Financial Management Association, the American College of Healthcare Executives, the Healthcare Institute and Healthcare Executives Study Society. She is also a member of the Chicago Network, an organization for women executives, and TEMPO and Professional Dimensions, two Milwaukee-based women’s leadership organizations.
Jacobson isa Certified Public Accountant. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois.
February 2017