Joyce Anne Wainio
Joyce Anne Wainio is Vice President of the National Center for Healthcare Leadership, a not-for-profit
organization whose mission is to be a catalyst to assure that high-quality, relevant, and accountable
health management leadership is available to meet the needs of 21st century healthcare. In this role,
Joyce Anne oversees NCHL’s operations, marketing and communications, annual leadership symposium,
and National Healthcare Leadership Award. She is also responsible for NCHL’s individual, team, and
organizational assessments and national demonstration projects, including Nurse-Team Leadership,
Graduate Health Management Education, and Diversity Leadership.
Joyce Anne has extensive experience in healthcare financing, administration, care management,
technology assessment, quality measurement, and public policy issues. Her career has spanned work in
innovative not-for-profit healthcare organizations, the Federal government, national and state
associations, and hospital management. She has served as director of member relations for the
American Hospital Association (AHA) directly supporting CEO involvement in AHA's work on key policy
and advocacy issues. Prior to that, Joyce Anne was the senior analyst and project associate for the
National Chronic Care Consortium (NCCC) where she developed practice-based products and
resources—including issue briefs, guidelines, and education materials—to drive the organization's vision
of improved care delivery systems for the chronically ill. She also served as program analyst and acting
division director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Office of Legislation and Policy of
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Joyce Anne holds a Master of Health Administration from the University of Washington and a Bachelor
of Science from Marquette University.