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2015 Wellness Champion Award Recipient
LiveWell Colorado would like to congratulate the 2015 recipient of the Wellness Champion Award:
Donna Lynne, DrPH
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About Donna:
Donna Lynne, DrPH, is the executive vice president of Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Health Plan, Inc. and a group president for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and is responsible for its Pacific Northwest and Hawaii regions. There are more than 626,000 Kaiser Permanente members in Colorado and 725,000 in the other two regions she oversees, with a combined total revenue base of more than $7 billion. Kaiser Permanente Colorado owns and operates more than 28 medical offices in Denver, Boulder, Southern Colorado and Northern Colorado and is the state’s largest group medical practice organization. Kaiser Permanente Colorado has been a Medicare 5-Star Health Plan since implementation of the 5-Star Program five years ago, and it has achieved market-leading rankings by the National Committee for Quality Assurance and J.D. Power and Associates.
From 1998 to April 2005, Dr. Lynne was the executive vice president and chief operating officer for Group Health Inc., a $2.5 billion managed care organization. In the mid-1990s, she was the executive director of the New York Business Group on Health. Dr. Lynne spent 20 years in various positions in New York City government, including first deputy commissioner, Office of Labor Relations; director, Mayor’s Office of Operations; and senior vice president, New York City Health and Hospitals Corp.
Dr. Lynne was named one of the Top 25 Women in Healthcare in 2015 by Modern Healthcare. She was awarded the Denver Business Journal’s 2008 Outstanding Women in Business award, the 2009 Distinguished Coloradan Award from the University of Colorado Denver, and received the President’s Award from Women in Health Management and the Health Care Leadership Award from the New York Business Group on Health.
Dr. Lynne serves on the boards of Colorado Education Initiative, Colorado Mountain Club, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver Public Schools Foundation, National Partnership for Women & Families, Teach for America-Colorado, U.S. Bank Colorado Advisory Board and is the former chair of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce. She currently co-chairs the Denver Education Compact Executive Advisory Board for Mayor Michael Hancock. Additionally, in 2010 she was one of 16 statewide transition co-chairs and the Personnel and Administration Committee co-chair for Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper
Dr. Lynne has a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from the University of New Hampshire, a master’s degree in public administration from George Washington University, and a doctorate in public health from Columbia University. In 2014, Dr. Lynne received an honorary doctorate of public service from the University of Denver. Since 2005, Dr. Lynne has been an Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at Columbia University.
Dr. Lynne enjoys skiing, mountaineering, cycling, and reading. She resides in Denver, Colorado and has three children, Rachel (36), James (34), and Ben (32).
