Umass Memorial Health Care, Inc

Wendy Warring

Executive Vice President

UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc.

Wendy Warring is Executive Vice President of UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc., Central Massachusetts’ largest not-for-profit health care delivery system and the clinical partner of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. UMass Memorial’s comprehensive network of care includes teaching hospitals, member and affiliated community hospitals, freestanding primary care practices, ambulatory outpatient clinics, long-term care facilities, home health agencies, hospice programs, a rehabilitation group and mental health services. As Executive Vice President, Ms. Warring is responsible for integration of the system’s operations, oversight of the Worcester tri-campus Medical Center, IS strategies and operations, and facilities and supply chain management issues. Much of her work is also directed toward advancing the system’s public mission and partnership with the state’s only publicly owned Medical School.

Ms. Warring serves as a director of the Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute established by the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts. She is also serving as the Chair of the Network Health Board of Directors, the managed care plan owned by Cambridge Health Alliance. Ms. Warring is a member of the Board of Directors of VHA Northeast, LLC, the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, and a member of the Advisory Committee of MA-SHARE, Mass Health Data Consortium, Inc.

Before joining UMass Memorial, Ms. Warring was Commissioner of the Division of Medical Assistance (DMA), formerly the single state agency responsible for Medicaid for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In this post, she served on the Executive Committee of the National Association of State Medicaid Directors (NASMD) and chaired the Medicaid and Medicare Technical Advisory Group (TAG).

Ms. Warring’s prior employment also includes her tenure as General Counsel to the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, where she worked on the development and preservation of affordable housing opportunities. She also served in the Governor’s Legal Office, where she worked primarily on health, education, and human services issues, including the drafting of the health care reform waiver request. In addition, she has served as a trial attorney for the United States Department of Justice on its New England Bank Fraud Task Force, and spent a number of years in private practice at Hill & Barlow, where she was an associate in the firm’s litigation department.

Ms. Warring is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale Law School. At Yale, she was a senior editor of the Yale Law Review.