Who's Who in Health Care: Mark A. Frey, Chief Executive Officer, AMITA Health

Mark A. Frey is president and CEO of AMITA Health, an integrated health system serving communities in western and northwestern suburban Chicago.

AMITA Health is a joint operating company formed in February 2015 by Adventist Midwest Health, based in Hinsdale, and Alexian Brothers Health System, based in Arlington Heights, encompassing nearly 12,000 employees in nine hospitals and an extensive physician provider network of more than 3,000 physicians. AMITA Health is the third largest health system in Illinois and is comprised of medical centers and specialty hospitals in Hoffman Estates, Elk Grove Village, Hinsdale, La Grange, Bolingbrook and Glendale Heights as well as ambulatory locations in communities across the suburbs.

A 30-year employee of Alexian Brothers, Frey was appointed CEO of Alexian Brothers Health System in 2007. During his tenure he was instrumental in the development of the health system's programs in psychiatry, neurosciences and expansion of rehabilitation services through a joint venture hospital with the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Beginning in mid-2007, he led a $55 million operational turnaround of the Health System over a two-year period. In 2011, he oversaw the merger of Alexian Brothers Health System with Ascension, the nation's largest Catholic and largest nonprofit health system.  

Frey is an honors graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago where he was a student in philosophy; a graduate of Loyola University of Chicago where he earned his Master's Degree in Social Work; and an honors graduate from the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law. He is a licensed attorney in Illinois. He has taught graduate classes at two colleges as an adjunct faculty, supervised graduate-level interns and functioned as a therapist for many years.