Delvecchio S. Finley, FACHE, Installed as ACHE Chair

Delvecchio S. Finley, FACHE, president, Atrium Health Navicent, Macon, Ga., has assumed the office of Chair of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Finley was installed by the Council of Regents.

Finley succeeds ACHE’s outgoing Chair, Anthony A. “Tony” Armada, FACHE, executive vice president/chief transformation officer, Generations Healthcare Network, Lincolnwood, Ill.

Board certified in healthcare management as an ACHE Fellow, Finley served as an ACHE Governor from 2018 to 2021, as an ACHE Regent for Northern and Central California from 2007 to 2010, and on many ACHE committees. In 2014, he received the Robert S. Hudgens Memorial Award for Young Healthcare Executive of the Year.

In addition to his service to ACHE, Finley serves as a board member for the Central Georgia Health Network, Georgia Chamber of Commerce, Georgia Hospital Association, Georgia Research Alliance, Navicent Health Foundation, NewTown Macon, Secure Health, Vizient Southern States and on the Executive Committee of the Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals.

He also serves as a member of the Council on Healthcare Spending and Value for Health Affairs. His prior board experience includes the American Hospital Association, California Hospital Association, California Association of Public Hospitals and the Essential Hospitals Institute.

He is the recipient of numerous awards and commendations. In 2015, Modern Healthcare recognized him through its “Up & Comers” program, and in 2016, named him one of its “Diversity Leaders to Watch.” He was also named in 2015 to Becker’s Hospital Review’s “Top 25 Healthcare Leaders Under 40” list, and in 2021, Modern Healthcare recognized him again, naming Finley one of the “Top 25 Diversity Leaders in Healthcare.” In 2022, he was included on Georgia Trend magazine’s “GEORGIA 500” list of the state’s most influential leaders.

Finley also received ACHE’s Service Award (2008), Distinguished Service Award (2011) and Exemplary Service Award (2014) through ACHE’s Recognition Program, and a Senior-Level Healthcare Executive Regent Award from ACHE in 2007.

As Chair, Finley begins the second part of a three-year term preceded by serving as Chair-Elect and followed by serving as Immediate Past Chair.