Rulon Stacey has served as the Director of Programs in Health Administration at the University of Colorado Denver since January 1, 2020. He comes to CU Denver after five years as a partner with Guidehouse consulting. During his distinguished career, Dr. Stacey has served as CEO of several different health systems, including Fairview Health System in Minneapolis and the Poudre Valley Health System (PVHS) in Fort Collins, Colorado. During his time at PVHS, Dr. Stacey led the merger of PVHS with University of Colorado Hospital to form UCHealth and became the organization’s inaugural CEO. As the CEO, Dr. Stacey led the strategic plan to expand UCHealth to include Memorial Health System in Colorado Springs and several other clinics and hospitals throughout Colorado and Wyoming. Under Dr. Stacey’s leadership, PVHS became one of the first healthcare companies to receive the nation’s most prestigious quality award, The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
Dr. Stacey has served as the Chair of the Board of Governors for the American College of Healthcare Executives, was appointed by three different United States Secretaries of Commerce to multiple terms as the Chair of the Board of Overseers of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, was twice selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the top 100 most influential people in US healthcare, and is currently the Chair of the CEO Circle of the International Hospital Federation based in Geneva, Switzerland.
As a graduate of CU Denver, Dr. Stacey was also selected in 2000 as the Mulstein Scholar, representing that year’s best Ph.D. dissertation in the Graduate School of Public Affairs.