Ascension Health: Sister Bernice Coreil, DC, Senior Executive Advisor to the President Interim President, Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic States Operating Group

Sister Bernice Coreil, DC, Senior Executive Advisor to the President Interim President, Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic States Operating Group

Sister Bernice Coreil, DC
Senior Executive Advisor to the President

Sr. Bernice Coreil, DC, is the Senior Executive Advisor to the President at Ascension Health.

She received a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1969, from Regis College, Denver, Colorado, graduating Magna Cum Laude; a master's degree in health care administration in 1972, from George Washington University, Washington, DC; and an honorary doctorate in 2006 from Aquinas Institute, St. Louis, MO.

Her experience in health ministry ranges from Business Manager to Chief Executive Officer, and in Provincial Leadership as Health Councillor and Visitatrix of the Daughters of Charity, West Central Province.

Prior to the formation of Ascension Health, Sr. Bernice served as Senior Vice President for System Integration for the Daughters of Charity National Health System from 1993 to 1999.

Sr. Bernice currently serves as a member of several professional organizations including: Diplomat of the American College of Healthcare Executives; Member, ACHE Regent's Advisory Council of Missouri; Member, Mercy Housing Strategic Health Care Partners; the National Coalition on Catholic Health Care Ministry; Seton Institute Advisory Board; Migrant Health Promotion Program; CHA Special Advisory Committee for Assembly; Catholic Charities USA; CHA Committee on Collaborative Initiative on Refugees; Planning Committee for Loyola Sponsorship Center; Lifetime Advanced Member, Healthcare Financial Management Association; Chair, Nazareth Hall Board; Chair, Sub-Committee on Diversity for ACHE Regional Advisory Council; Chair, Grants Committee of Incardinate Word Foundation; Board of Incardinate Word Foundation; and Hospital Sisters Health System Board.

Sr. Bernice is the recipient of the 1994 Samuel Cardinal Strich Award for Health Affairs, and received the Archbishop John L. May Leadership Award for Distinguished Health Care Ministry from the Archbishop's Commission on Community Health in 1997. Sr. Bernice also received the American College of Healthcare Executives Senior Level Healthcare Executive Regents Award at the 1999 Missouri Hospital Association Convention. And in 2003, she received the Lifetime Achievement award from the Catholic Health Association.

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