Ruth Williams-Brinkley

Ruth Williams-Brinkley is president of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States, Inc. In this role, Williams-Brinkley oversees all of Kaiser Permanente’s care delivery and health plan operations in Washington, D.C., and suburban Maryland, Baltimore, and Northern Virginia. The Mid-Atlantic States Region operates 33 medical
office buildings and has 764,664 members.

Williams-Brinkley reports to the group president for markets outside of California, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Hospitals.

Williams-Brinkley joined Kaiser Permanente in November 2017, serving as president of
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals of the Northwest. She oversaw all of Kaiser Permanente’s care delivery and health plan operations in Oregon and markets in
Vancouver and Longview/Kelso, Washington.

Prior to that she served as CEO of KentuckyOne Health, Kentucky’s largest integrated
health system. KentuckyOne was a division of CommonSpirit Health, one of the nation’s
largest nonprofit health systems.

Prior to her tenure with KentuckyOne, Williams-Brinkley served as president and CEO of
Carondelet Health Network in Tucson, Arizona, and as president and CEO of Memorial
Healthcare System in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Williams-Brinkley has often appeared on Modern Healthcare’s Top 25 Women in
Healthcare and Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare and was named one of Becker’s Most Admired CEOs.

She holds bachelor’s and Master of Science degrees from De Paul University, and an
honorary doctoral degree from Spaulding University in Louisville, Kentucky.