Marvin R. O’Quinn is the president and COO for CommonSpirit Health, a faith-based, nonprofit healthcare ministry with more than 150,000 employees and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians operating in 140 hospitals and more than 1,500 care sites across 21 states.

In this role, Mr. O’Quinn is responsible for rapidly growing and sustaining optimized operational performance across the ministry’s care continuum, which includes acute care and ambulatory environments, several free-standing EDs, a national reference lab, senior living communities, a multistate home health provider and several joint ventures. He provides strategic and operational oversight of the ministry’s physician enterprise, supply chain, and operational transformation priorities and initiatives. As a servant leader with more than 30 years of healthcare operations experience, he is dedicated to providing everyone, especially the underserved, with access to quality care.

Marvin has served as the president and COO of CommonSpirit Health since the ministry’s inception in 2019, when Dignity Health aligned with Catholic Health Initiatives. Prior to the formation of CommonSpirit, he served as the COO of Dignity Health. Before joining Dignity Health in 2009, Marvin served as the president and chief executive officer of Jackson Health System (Miami) and executive vice president and chief operating officer of Atlantic Health System (Florham Park, N.J.). He also held senior positions with New York Presbyterian Health System, Providence, Legacy Emanuel Hospital and Health Center (Portland, Ore.), Valley Children’s Hospital (Fresno, Calif.) and Harborview Medical Center (Seattle).

Marvin received his bachelor’s degree in biology and master’s degree in health administration from the University of Washington. He previously served as a member of the nominating committee for the Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems, a member of the Association of American Medical Colleges and as a member of the American Hospital Association’s Regional Policy Board. He has also served as a member of the Agency for Healthcare Administration—Florida Low Income Pool and as the chair of the Florida Safety Net Alliance.