Corinne R. Francis

Corinne R. Francis, MA. MDiv. D. HCML (Cand) 
Executive Vice President and Chief Mission Integration Officer

Corinne R. Francis, MA. MDiv. D. HCML (Cand) provides executive leadership, direction, guidance, and consultation for integrating Mission, Values and Catholic Identity into the organization's strategic plan, structures, and operations. Francis leads the development and implementation of standards for mission services as well as concrete measures to assess the effectiveness of the standards. She also oversees the sponsorship of Trinity Health as a healing ministry of the Catholic Church.

A former system vice president of mission integration at CommonSpirit Health, Francis has over 22 years of progressive experience in various Mission roles. Before the merger of Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives, Francis served as senior vice president, mission integration for Dignity Health, system VP for mission integration and community benefit at CHRISTUS Health. She also served as a mission executive at various ministries within the Catholic Health East (CHE) system for 11 years. Notably, she is the first Black woman to lead mission for a national Catholic health system.

Francis was one of Modern Healthcare’s Up and Comer Award winners in 2006. She served as a Board Member of the Catholic Health Association from 2007 to 2013, served on the Governance Committee and chaired the Diversity and Health Disparities Committee. She has conducted health care research on community health partnerships and was a founding member of Medical Professionals On A Mission, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) created in 2018 to bring medical mission response to disasters in the Caribbean.

Francis began her advanced education with Dominica/Cambridge University, London England, followed by a Bachelor of Arts in Theology and Sociology from Carlow University (Summa Cum Laude and a Carolow College Laureate), a Master of Divinity from Catholic Theological Union as a Cardinal Bernardin Scholar, a Master of Arts in Social Service Administration with a concentration and certificate in Health Administration and Policy from the University of Chicago as an Edith Abbot Scholar. She is currently a Doctoral candidate at Loyola University Chicago.