Intermountain selects COO Rob Allen as new CEO

Intermountain COO Rob Allen is the health system's new CEO and president.

Photo: Courtesy Intermountain Healthcare

Rob Allen, Intermountain Healthcare's long-standing chief operating officer, will become the health system's new CEO and president on December 1.

Leadership will transition from Interim President and CEO Lydia Jumonville, who stepped in this fall after the departure of CEO and President Dr. Marc Harrison. Jumonville will continue to serve as the executive sponsor of Integration for Intermountain, until her planned retirement at the end of 2023.   

Allen was selected through a thorough search process, which was led by the Intermountain board of trustees and included a group of healthcare leader candidates from across the country.  

"Rob embodies the Intermountain values and will provide steady, servant leadership to the organization. He has always put our patients and caregivers first," said Mike Leavitt, chair of the Intermountain Healthcare Board and former Utah governor and U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services.  

Allen has been with Intermountain since 2008. He has served as a region operating officer, CEO of Park City Medical Center, region vice president, and most recently, as chief operating officer for the health system, a role that he has held for nearly six years.   

Allen has more than 25 years of healthcare leadership experience, serving as the CEO of hospitals in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Wyoming.

"I'm humbled and proud to have this leadership opportunity, working with our incredible team of caregivers and providers," said Allen. "Each of us has the privilege to build on Intermountain's legacy and carry forward our mission and charge to be a model health system that inspires the world. Intermountain is a place for big ideas and even bigger hearts. I'm confident that we will continue helping people live the healthiest lives possible." 

Intermountain announced in August that Jumonville would serve as interim president and CEO when Harrison, who had led Intermountain since 2016, left in the fall to run General Catalyst's investment platform.

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