Eric Conley is Executive Vice President and President, Acute & Post-Acute Care for Sentara Health. Eric began his tenure at Sentara in April 2024. Conley oversees Sentara Health’s 12 hospitals in VA and NC, system-wide Pharmacy, and Sentara Enterprises which encompasses Inpatient Rehab, Home Health, and Hospice.

Eric brings 30 years of healthcare leadership and expertise to Sentara. As President of the South Region of Froedtert ThedaCare Health and President of Froedtert Hospital, he led the largest hospital in the state of Wisconsin, a Level I Trauma Center and the primary teaching hospital of the Medical College of Wisconsin. Conley was also responsible for their Community Hospital Division, which consists of seven neighborhood and community hospitals. During his tenure, he implemented strategies to drive quality of care and operational effectiveness throughout Froedtert Hospital resulting in #10 ranking in the Vizient database for demonstrating excellence in delivering high-quality care.

Eric’s career has included operational leadership, service line management, program development, and strategic planning at health systems throughout the country.

• As Division Vice President at KentuckyOne Health, he worked to establish service line structure system-wide
• As Vice President, Operations at Doctors Community Hospital, Eric planned, negotiated, and implemented a wound care center in partnership with National Wound Healing.
• As Vice President, Operations of MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, he started a pediatrics practice that cared for 400 patient visits per month in less than 9 months.
Conley leads with a passion for quality patient care, operational performance, collaboration, and teamwork.