Kester S Freeman

Bio

Kester was most recently Chief Executive Officer of Palmetto Health; the largest integrated healthcare delivery system in South Carolina with net revenues of $1 billion. He is currently a member of the board of directors of the South Carolina Hospital Association, having previously been Chairman, and is the recipient of the Association's 1998 Distinguished Service Award and the Merit Award for Distinguished Service. Kester served as chairman of the PHLIP board, an insurance captive comprised of seven South Carolina hospitals, as the founding chairman of the Carolina HealthChoice Network board of directors, as a member of the American Hospital Association's Organizational Ethics Task Force, and as a COTH representative to the Association of American Medical Colleges Assembly. He served for seven years as a member of the Premier, Inc., board of directors and chaired their audit committee. Kester is Health Sciences South Carolina's first chairman of the board.