Lawrence H. Kloess III, FACHE
Chairman of the Board, EHCA, LLC
Larry Kloess III, MHA, FACHE, is a health care executive with 30 years of leadership experience in hospital and physician group management.
In 2006, Mr. Kloess was appointed the President of the TriStar Division of HCA, based in Nashville, Tennessee, with multi-facility leadership for 20 hospitals and 12 surgery centers across Tennessee, Kentucky, and Georgia.
Beginning in 1997, Mr. Kloess served as the Chief Operating Officer for American Pathology Resources, a physician practice management company with 60 pathologists throughout the United States. Following the sale of this company in 1998, Mr. Kloess became the President and CEO of Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, the 688-bed tertiary "flagship" hospital for Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). Centennial Medical Center has been recognized nationally as a Top 100 Hospital in the specialties of cardiovascular services, heart surgery, stroke services, orthopedics, and breast cancer. It was also selected by the readership of Nashville Parent magazine as "Nashville's Favorite Hospital".
In 1995, he became the CEO for Conroe Regional Medical Center in Conroe, Texas, a 260-bed tertiary teaching hospital in the suburbs of Houston, Texas. The hospital was the product of a merger of two competing facilities four miles apart (one investor-owned hospital with an attached PhyCor multi-specialty medical group, and one county-owned, not-for-profit hospital). Through Mr. Kloess' efforts, the physicians, staff, services and cultures of the two competitors were successfully merged into one single facility.
In 1992, Mr. Kloess was one of eleven hospital CEO's selected to the inaugural class of the HealthTrust Executive Fellowship Program, studying integrated healthcare delivery systems in the U.S. and Great Britain. Among the organizations studied by Mr. Kloess during this Program were the Intermountain Healthcare System in Salt Lake City, Utah, the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan, and the British Health Service in London, England, through the King's College at Oxford University.
Mr. Kloess has a Bachelor's degree (B.S.) in Healthcare Management from the University of Alabama, and a Master's degree (M.H.A.) in Hospital and Health Administration from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he served as the President of his graduate school class. He is board-certified in healthcare management, a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives, and has been a licensed nursing home administrator. Mr. Kloess has held positions of increasing responsibility in hospitals since 1977. He joined HCA in 1983 as the Assistant Administrator at Largo Medical Center in Clearwater, Florida. He subsequently served as the CEO at Scott General Hospital in Georgetown, Kentucky, and as the CEO for Hendersonville Hospital in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
Mr. Kloess has been active in civic affairs, serving on the Boards of various community organizations, including the United Way, Chambers of Commerce, American Heart Association, Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation, and the Boy Scouts. He currently serves on the Board of the Tennessee Hospital Association, and the Advisory Board of Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelters. Mr. Kloess and his wife, Karen, reside in Brentwood, Tennessee, with their two children, and are members of Brentwood Baptist Church, where Mr. Kloess serves as a Deacon and past Chair of the Stewardship Committee.
