From staff reports
William F. Jessee, M.D., FACMPE, was appointed last month by Beaufort County Council to a three-year term on Beaufort Memorial Hospital’s (BMH) nine-person Board of Trustees.
Jessee retired in 2020 as senior medical advisor at A.J. Gallagher Integrated Healthcare Strategies, and earlier spent 12 years as president and chief executive officer of the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), gaining extensive experience in all facets of the management of well-run, cost-effective medical groups highly rated by both patients and physicians. Prior to his retirement he was consistently ranked in Modern Healthcare’s Top 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare and Top 50 Most Powerful Physician Executives.
During his tenure with MGMA, Dr. Jessee also served for nine years as a board member for Exempla Healthcare, a three-hospital system based in Denver, Colo. Before joining MGMA, Jessee was vice president for quality and managed care standards at the American Medical Association.
He has also served as CEO of a regional integrated delivery system in Louisville, Ky.; vice president of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; and corporate vice president for quality management at Humana Inc. From 1980 to 1986, Dr. Jessee was a full-time associate professor at University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health in Chapel Hill.
An honors graduate of Stanford University, he received his medical degree at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and completed his residency in preventive medicine at University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore. Prior to moving to Beaufort in 2018, Dr. Jessee’s family owned a home on Fripp Island where they regularly vacationed for more than a decade.
