The Greater Chambersburg Chamber of Commerce confirmed this week what the physicians, employees, and staff of Keystone Health already knew – Joanne Cochran is an excellent business woman with a heart for her community. Keystone Health’s CEO and President, Joanne Cochran was named the 2013 Business Person of the Year at the Chamber’s annual business breakfast.
Joanne was chosen for the award by a committee of business and civic leaders for her business and charitable contributions to the community. The award was presented by Suzanne Miller Trinh, 2013 chair of the board of directors for the Chamber, before more than 200 members attending the Chamber’s annual breakfast at Wilson College on December 12.
Joanne has led Keystone Health for the past 27 years. From Keystone’s humble beginnings in her basement office, Joanne has grown the health care organization to include 12 business units with more than 350 employees. Each practice and business unit works with a mission of providing high quality care and to remove any barriers that keep people from getting the important health care they need.
Because of Joanne’s hard work and dedication to serving others, Keystone Health now offers patients across the region dental care, family medicine, behavioral health services, walk-in care, pharmacy, pediatrics, women’s care, internal medicine, HIV services, infectious disease care, cardiology, and migrant health care services.
Through a grant obtained by Joanne, Keystone has added outreach enrollment to the patient financial services program to help people enroll in Medicaid, CHIP, or the Affordable Care Act health insurance exchange. In 2010, she championed for grant money and was awarded $11.5 million to build the new professional center at 830 Fifth Ave., named in her honor.
Joanne credits her dedicated staff and board of directors for helping her make Keystone Health such a positive force in the community. There is a sentiment that everyone who has ever worked at Keystone with Joanne soon learns and adopts. It goes like this—“No one CARES how much you Know until they Know how much you CARE.”
