MICHELLE PIRANIO, CIA

Vice President, Strategy and Support Services

Throughout her career, Michelle Piranio has demonstrated the ability to adeptly move between envisioning the future and translating the vision into operations. She currently applies her 20 years of healthcare experience in the areas of strategic planning, marketing, market research, and internal audit to overseeing integration of strategy with operations.

Based at the CHAN Healthcare Auditors corporate office in St. Louis, she is responsible for the Strategy, Knowledge Management, Decision Support, and Technology. She joined CHAN in 1999 as an Audit Manager, providing internal audit services to hospitals in the Kansas City area for four years. Then she transitioned to the corporate office to develop the Communications and Knowledge Management functions.

Ms. Piranio began her healthcare career in strategic planning for a hospital in Denver. She worked with physicians to develop a technology assessment function and was responsible for developing the business plans for integrating new technologies into operations. She pioneered development of market research functions in two major health systems and has been responsible for marketing campaigns and promotions for product lines within hospitals.

She earned a B.S. in biology from the University of Saint Mary in Kansas, and an MBA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration. She is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors and the Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors.

Ms. Piranio serves on the Board of Cardinal Ritter Senior Services. She volunteers with a number of ministries associated with the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Carondelet. She is also on the Board of Trustees of the University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth, Kansas.

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