Severance joins MUSC Health as chief of Affiliations and Network Development
February 20, 2018
Matthew J. Severance, M.B.A., M.H.A., FACHE, joined the MUSC Health team as of Feb. 1, 2018 as the new chief of Affiliations and Network Development. The role is considered critical to MUSC Health’s ongoing efforts to expand access to the clinical, research and educational expertise of the state’s only comprehensive academic medical and health sciences center for health care providers throughout the state.
A senior healthcare executive with deep operational, strategic, and financial expertise combined with extensive experience in multi-hospital, ambulatory, and physician led environments, Severance has a track record of sustained, nationally recognized performance across key industry metrics. Severance was previously employed by the Roper Saint Francis Health system and the Lawrence Hospital Center in Westchester County, New York.
“Matt is well known across the state and national health care circles for his industry experience and knowledge, and we are thrilled he has joined our MUSC Health team,” said Patrick J. Cawley, M.D., M.B.A., chief executive officer of MUSC Health and University vice president for health affairs. “He shares our vision for leading health innovation for the lives we touch and is well positioned in this role to help MUSC Health achieve goals related to that vision.”
Severance graduated from Wake Forest University with a bachelor’s degree in science of business, and then completed master’s degrees in business administration and health administration at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He has served on numerous boards locally and at the state level, including the South Carolina Hospital Association (board chairman, 2016), the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce, the Charleston Regional Development Alliance, Trident United Way, the South Carolina Hospital Research and Education Foundation, and Crisis Ministries. He is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and a recipient of that organization’s regent’s award.
About MUSC Health
MUSC Health is the clinical enterprise of the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), comprised of a 700-bed medical center, the MUSC College of Medicine and the physician’s practice plan. It serves patients across South Carolina and beyond through four hospital facilities in Charleston and more than 100 outreach sites. Among these are the Hollings Cancer Center, the only National Cancer Institute-designated center in the state, and a nationally recognized Children’s Hospital. The Medical University was founded in 1824 and has become a premiere academic health sciences center at the forefront of the latest advances in medicine, with world-class physicians, scientists and groundbreaking research and technology that is often the first of its kind in the world. Visit http://muschealth.org for more information.
