2025 QHMA Chamber Breakfast

Be sure to register and join us on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 for the Quaboag Hills Chamber Breakfast featuring Baystate Health President & CEO, Mr. Peter Banko.

Don't miss this opportunity to hear first hand about the challenges and opportunities health care is facing for businesses and individuals right here in our region.  Space is limited to the first 40 registrations.

The presentation includes a breakfast buffet from Christopher Heights of Belchertown.
 
Sponsor opportunities are available for this event.  Please contact James Przypek at the Chamber for full details.  Email:  james@qhma.com  Office:  (413) 283-2418

Guest Speaker, Peter D. Banko:
Peter is leading Baystate Health through an exciting new era of healthy growth – in business and in community. As President and Chief Executive Officer, he is uprooting stagnant thinking by leading transformation with both passion and purpose. He teaches, supports, and lifts up those around him, helping them each define and more fully live their missions to impact the world. This has created a connected ecosystem of 13,000 caregivers, who individually and together are now on a mission to redefine health and health care.

Baystate Health is a not-for-profit, integrated health system serving more than 850,000 in western Massachusetts with a service area stretching from Connecticut to Vermont. With roots dating to the founding of Springfield Hospital in 1883 and serving as the only regional campus of UMass Chan Medical School, Baystate’s mission is to improve the health of the people in its communities every day, with quality and compassion. With a focus on quality, safety, value, and experience, Baystate Health is not only a keystone of the region, it is a national leader in healthcare.

Prior to joining Baystate Health in June 2024, Peter delivered seventeen years of leadership service with CommonSpirit Health as President & CEO at Centura Health across Colorado, Kansas, and Utah, Senior Vice President of Southeast Operations and national Chief Integration Officer, and President & CEO of CHI St. Vincent in Little Rock, Arkansas. Previous senior leadership roles include CHRISTUS Spohn Health System in Corpus Christi, Texas, PhyAmerica Physician Group in Durham, North Carolina, and Saint Clare’s Health Services in Denville, New Jersey.

Peter has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame and a master’s degree in health administration from Cornell University. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have been married for 31 years and have four children – Daniel (29), Lauren (24), Zachary (22), and Luke (17). The entire family has a strong commitment to promoting human dignity, the common good, and solidarity with the marginalized through community service, philanthropy, and governance.