Headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee, LifePoint Hospitals is one of the nation's largest hospital companies focused on non-urban healthcare, with 48 general acute care hospitals in 17 states.

Our Vision

At LifePoint, our vision is to be the leader in providing healthcare services to non-urban communities through a strategic plan that concentrates on five core values:

• Delivering compassionate, high quality patient care,
  
• Supporting physicians to achieve clinical excellence,
  
• Creating an outstanding environment for our employees,
  
• Providing unmatched community value, and
  
• Ensuring fiscal responsibility.
  
  
  

Our Leadership

William F. Carpenter III
President and Chief Executive Officer

William F. Carpenter III has served as CEO of the Company since his appointment on June 26, 2006. Prior to June 26, 2006, Mr. Carpenter served as Executive Vice President of the Company from February 2004 until his appointment as CEO. In addition, Mr. Carpenter served as General Counsel and Secretary of the Company since May 11, 1999 and Corporate Governance Officer since February 2003. From May 11, 1999 to February 2004, Mr. Carpenter served as Senior Vice President of the Company. From November 23, 1998 until May 11, 1999, Mr. Carpenter served as general counsel of the America Group of HCA. Mr. Carpenter was a member of the law firm of Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP through December 31, 1998. Mr. Carpenter is a director of Psychiatric Solutions, Inc., a behavioral health services company and is chair of its corporate governance committee.

William M. Gracey
Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer

William M. Gracey is Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer.  He has served as Chief Operating Officer of the Company since February 2004.  From May 1999 until February 2004, Mr. Gracey was a Division President of the Company.  Prior to joining LifePoint, Mr. Gracey served in various corporate and hospital leadership positions for HCA, including Division President for several regions.  Mr. Gracey served as chairman of the Tennessee Hospital Association board of directors in 2006.  He is a member of the American Hospital Association (AHA) Section for Health Care Systems Governing Council and a member of the board of directors of BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, serving as the hospital representative for the State of Tennessee.

David M. Dill
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

David M. Dill serves as the company's Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer.  Mr. Dill joined LifePoint Hospitals as the Company's Chief Financial Officer in July 2007.  Prior to joining the Company, Dill served as Executive Vice President of Fresenius Medical Care North America and as Chief Executive Officer in the East Division of Fresenius Medical Care Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA.  Mr. Dill previously served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Renal Care Group, Inc., a publicly traded dialysis services company, from November 2003 until Renal Care Group was acquired by Fresenius Medical Care in March 2006.  Mr. Dill is a director of Psychiatric Solutions, Inc., a behavioral health services company.

Paul D. Gilbert

Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer

Paul D. Gilbert is Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer for LifePoint Hospitals.  He joined the Company in August 2006 as Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Governance Officer.  Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Gilbert was a partner of the law firm of Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP from January 1999 to August 2006, where he advised investor-owned and not-for-profit hospitals and health systems, psychiatric and behavioral health facilities and other healthcare facilities on a broad range of transactional, coporate governance and financing matters.

John P. Bumpus

Executive Vice President & Chief Administrative Officer

John P. Bumpus is Executive Vice President & Chief Administrative Officer.  Mr. Bumpus joined the Company in April 2005 serving as Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Administration.  Previously, he served as Vice President Human Resources with Province Healthcare Company.  Mr. Bumpus spent the first 23 years of his career as a human resource busines partner with a Fortune 500 company.  A member of the executive strategic leadership team, Mr. Bumpus provides direction for the organization in the areas of strategic management, talent development, compensation and benefits, and employee and labor relations.

Lanny R. Copeland, M.D.

Chief Medical Officer

Lanny R. Copeland, M.D. is LifePoint's Chief Medical Officer.  Prior to joining LifePoint in 2007, Dr. Copeland served as Vice President, Medical Affairs, for a large hospital company.  Previously, Dr. Copeland served as Vice President, Primary Care Development, for Phoebe Putney Health Systems, Inc. in Albany, Georgia.  Dr. Copeland's background includes numerous academic appointments and professional memberships.  He served terms as Chairman and President for the American Academcy of Family Physicians.  He also served as President of the American Board of Family Medicine and Professor for the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Mercer University School of Medicine in Macon, Georgia.  He practiced medicine for more than 20 years in private practices in Indiana and Georgia.  

Our Board of Directors

Owen G. Shell Jr.
Chairman of the Board

Owen G. Shell, Jr. currently serves as the Company’s non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. Mr. Shell has over 40 years of executive management experience in the banking industry. He served as president of the Asset Management Group of Bank of America Corporation from November 1996 until his retirement in June 2001. From 1986 through 1996, Mr. Shell served as the president of Bank of America for the Tennessee region. Prior to that, Mr. Shell held several positions, including chairman, president and chief executive officer of First American National Bank in Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. Shell is a director of Central Parking Corporation, a publicly-traded company that owns, leases and manages parking facilities.

Gregory T. Bier

Gregory T. Bier was appointed as a director of the Company in February 2008.  Mr. Bier retired in 2002 from Deloitte & Touche LLP.  Prior to his retirement, Mr. Bier was the Managing Partner of the Cincinnati Office of Deloitte & Touche LLP from 1998 to 2002.  Mr. Bier joined Haskins & Sells, which later became part of Deloitte, in 1968, and he has been a certified public accountant since 1970.  Mr. Bier served on the Audit Committee of the Board of Trustees of Catholic Healthcare Partners, one of the largest not-for-profit health systems in the United States, from 2002 to 2007.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Cincinnati Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: CINF), a public company that markets commercial, personal and life insurance through independent insurance agencies.

Richard H. Evans

Richard H. Evans currently serves as the Chair of the Company’s Compensation Committee. Mr. Evans has been the chairman of Evans Holdings, LLC, a real estate investment and real estate services company, since April 1999. Prior to that time, Mr. Evans served as chief executive officer of Huizenga Sports, Entertainment Group, Madison Square Garden Corporation and Radio City Music Hall Productions, chief operating officer of Gaylord Entertainment Company and chief operating officer and corporate director of Florida Panther Holdings. Mr. Evans previously served as a member of the board of governors of the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, Major League Baseball and the National Football League.

DeWitt Ezell Jr.

DeWitt Ezell, Jr. served as state president of Tennessee for BellSouth Corporation, a communications services company, from January 1990 until his retirement on April 30, 1999. Prior to that time, Mr. Ezell served in various engineering, regulatory and public relations positions during his 37-year tenure with The Company Corporation. Mr. Ezell is the chairman of the board of BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, a non-profit health insurance company.  Mr. Ezell has previously served as the Chair of the Company’s Compensation Committee and as the Chair of the Company’s Nominating Committee.  On two separate occasions, Mr. Ezell also served as the Company’s Interim Non-Executive Chairman of the Board.

Michael P. Haley

Michael P. Haley has been a director of the Company since April 2005. Mr. Haley was a director of Province from February 2004 until the closing of the business combination with Province in April 2005. From January 1, 2005 to June 1, 2005, Mr. Haley served as chairman of MW Manufacturers, Inc., a producer and distributor of window and door products for the residential construction industry, and as senior vice president of sales and marketing for Ply Gem Industries, Inc., a manufacturer of residential exterior building products. From 2001 to January 1, 2005, Mr. Haley served as president and chief executive officer of MW Manufacturers, Inc. Prior to that time, Mr. Haley served in various management capacities with American of Martinsville, Inc, a manufacturer of commercial contract furniture and subsidiary of La-Z-Boy Incorporated, and with Loewenstein Furniture Group. Mr. Haley is a director of Ply Gem Industries, Inc., American National Bankshares, Inc., a publicly-traded bank holding company, and Stanley Furniture Company, a publicly-traded furniture manufacturer.

Marguerite W. Kondracke

Marguerite W. Kondracke became a director of the Company on November 8, 2007.  Since October 2004, Ms. Kondracke has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of America's Promise - The Alliance for Youth, a not-for-profit children's advocacy organization founded in 1997 by General Colin Powell.  Prior to that time, Ms. Kondracke served as Special Assistant to U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander, as well as the Staff Director, Senate Subcommittee on Children and Families between April 2003 and September 2004.  From September 2001 to March 2003, Ms. Kondracke served as President and Chief Executive Officer of The Brown Schools, a leading provider of behavioral services for adolescents.  Ms. Kondracke is the co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer, and currently a board member of Bright Horizons Family Solutions (NASDAQ: BFAM), a public company that provides workplace services for employers and families.  Ms. Kondracke is currently a board member of Saks, Inc. (NYSE: SKS), a public company that operates department stores in the United States.  Ms. Kondracke also serves on the Board of Trustees of Duke University and Duke University Medical Center.

William V. Lapham

William V. Lapham currently serves as Chair of the Company’s Audit and Compliance Committee. From 1962 until his retirement in 1998, Mr. Lapham was associated with Ernst & Young LLP and its predecessors, serving as a partner for the last 26 years of his tenure, and as a member of Ernst & Young’s International Council for eight years ending in December 1997. Mr. Lapham was a director of Renal Care Group, Inc., a publicly-traded kidney dialysis services company and was the chair of its audit and compliance committee until its acquisition by Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA on March 31, 2006. Mr. Lapham is also a past director of Avado Brands, Inc., a proprietary brand management company, prior to its going private in May 2005 and was chair of its audit committee.

John E. Maupin, Jr., D.D.S.

John E. Maupin, Jr., D.D.S. currently serves as the Chair of the Company’s Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee.  Dr. Maupin has served as the president of Morehouse School of Medicine since July 1, 2006. From July 1994 until June 2006, Dr. Maupin served as president of Meharry Medical College. Dr. Maupin currently serves on the National Committee on Foreign Medical Education Accreditation of the U.S. Department of Education. He also has served on the National Advisory Research Resources Council of the National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health; National Advisory Dental Research Council of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health; and the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Maupin is a director of HealthSouth Corporation, a publicly-traded provider of healthcare services, and serves as a director/trustee for the VALIC family of funds, a fund complex.