Martin Smith
Bio
Martin D. Smith is a retired president and COO of Quorum Health in Franklin, Tenn., and has nearly 30 years of hospital and health system senior leadership experience. He is a health care industry veteran, operations consultant and advisor. As president and COO, Mr. Smith was responsible for approximately$2 billion in revenue and operations of Quorum’s hospital and related outpatient facilities across 13states. He was central in the 2015 formation of Quorum Health, a publicly traded spin-off from Community Health Systems, and he helped Quorum navigate several operational startup challenges, including portfolio rationalization, separation from transitional support service agreements related to the spin-off, and a 2019 restructuring of the company’s inherited balance sheet, which enabled the company to go
private. Throughout the restructuring, Mr. Smith oversaw the company’s multi-channel communicationstrategy, which proved extremely effective in maintaining key relationships with physicians, payers andtertiary care partners. Although the restructuring took place as COVID-19 was emerging as a globalhealth crisis, the plan’s transparency was instrumental in keeping Quorum’s corporate support and hos-pital operations teams moving forward without interruption. In addition to leading Quorum’s day-to-day operations, Mr. Smith also oversaw the company’s support services for managed care, engineering, medical staff recruitment, physician practice management and strategic development projects. He re-tired from Quorum Health in September of 2021. Prior to his time with Quorum, Mr. Smith spent 18years with CHS, joining the company in 1998 as a hospital CEO, becoming a corporate vice president ofOperations in 2005 and moving to a division president position in 2008. He received his undergraduate degree in communications from Lee University and his M.B.A. from the University of Tennessee.
private. Throughout the restructuring, Mr. Smith oversaw the company’s multi-channel communicationstrategy, which proved extremely effective in maintaining key relationships with physicians, payers andtertiary care partners. Although the restructuring took place as COVID-19 was emerging as a globalhealth crisis, the plan’s transparency was instrumental in keeping Quorum’s corporate support and hos-pital operations teams moving forward without interruption. In addition to leading Quorum’s day-to-day operations, Mr. Smith also oversaw the company’s support services for managed care, engineering, medical staff recruitment, physician practice management and strategic development projects. He re-tired from Quorum Health in September of 2021. Prior to his time with Quorum, Mr. Smith spent 18years with CHS, joining the company in 1998 as a hospital CEO, becoming a corporate vice president ofOperations in 2005 and moving to a division president position in 2008. He received his undergraduate degree in communications from Lee University and his M.B.A. from the University of Tennessee.