Dan DeLay leads CommonSpirit Health’s supply chain operations. CommonSpirit was created in February 2019 by Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health. With a team of approximately 150,000 employees and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians, CommonSpirit operates 140 hospitals and more than 1,000 care sites across 21 states.

Following military service, DeLay practiced healthcare and criminal law in Chicago. After leaving practice for business school, he joined Computer Sciences Corporation’s healthcare consulting practice, then Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. He built the Supply Chain Analytics Division at VHA (now Vizient). From there he joined Ascension Health, serving first in Baltimore-Washington D.C. as chief resource officer, then as area chief resource officer for the Midwest prior to joining CHI.

DeLay holds an MBA in finance and health services administration from Northwestern, a J.D. from Loyola University College of Law, and a B.A. in Public Policy from the University of Chicago.