Pamela Tripp is the Chief Executive Officer and known as the Chief Encouragement Officer of CommWell Health, a large community healthcare system located throughout southeastern NC. Ms. Tripp has served over 27 years in the industry as a Senior Leader and is the Founder of Corporate Transcendence, a Workforce Culture Transformation blueprint that values diversity and inclusion and delivers excellence in culture, quality, finance, and governance. Ms. Tripp is the author of “The Culture Cure: Transforming the Modern Healthcare System” and the accompanying Master Mind Resource Guide.
Under her leadership, state and national recognitions have been received at CommWell Health. Among those are Best Place to Work in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare, Outstanding Rural Health Organization by the National Rural Health Association, and the recognition as the first Federally Qualified Community Health System in the nation to receive the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Milestone II award. Ms. Tripp believes that “Our excellence tomorrow should always be greater than our excellence today.”