Hartford HealthCare
President, Central Region

Gina Calder is the president of the central region for Hartford Healthcare, which includes MidState Medical Center and The Hospital of Central Connecticut. Prior to joining Hartford, she was the president of BJC HealthCare hospitals in St. Charles County, Mo. Formerly, Calder served as the administrator at Milford Campus of Bridgeport Hospital and served previously as VP of ambulatory services at Bridgeport Hospital, a member of Yale New Haven Health System. She has had operational, strategic planning, and business development responsibility for 13 inpatient, outpatient, and ambulatory areas totaling $40 million in revenue and 80,000 patient visits annually. She also successfully planned and implemented Park Avenue Medical Center, which opened in spring 2016 and was the first outpatient center for Bridgeport Hospital and the largest for Yale New Haven Health. Calder works to influence policy and healthcare delivery to eliminate disparities in access to quality care and improve health outcomes. She serves on the boards of Optimus Health Care and FitHaven and is the immediate past president and founding member of the Connecticut chapter of the National Association of Health Services Executives. In 2024, Calder was named to the third national cohort of ELEVATE, a leadership development initiative for Black healthcare executives at NAHSE. She was recognized in 2015 as one of the Connecticut NAACP’s 100 Most Influential Blacks in the state. In 2016, she received Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Fairfield County Alumnae Chapter’s Dorothy I. Height Community Service Award and the Connecticut Association of Healthcare Executives Leadership Award. She earned her MPH and undergraduate psychology degrees from Yale University and is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.