Odette Bolano, former president and CEO of Saint Agnes and Saint Alphonsus, Trinity Health West Region, provided executive leadership, strategic and operational oversight for a 996 bed, five-hospital region, and a 40-bed acute rehabilitation joint venture with 87 clinics and two freestanding emergency departments, a clinically integrated network across Idaho, Oregon, and California and 10 other joint ventures. The west region employed over 9,000 colleagues which included over 670 primary care and specialty care medical providers.

Prior to this role, from August 2018 – May 2023, she served as president & CEO of Saint Alphonsus Health System for Idaho and Oregon, and from December 2015 – 2018, she served as president of Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center.

Odette has been in senior leadership healthcare positions in for-profit, non-profit, and fully integrated health systems. Prior to joining Saint Alphonsus, Odette served as senior vice president of Kaiser Permanente, East Bay in Oakland, California. Prior to Kaiser, Odette served in a number of senior executive positions with Ascension Health, and HCA.

Odette began her career as a nurse, received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Texas Christian University. She earned her master’s in administration of healthcare services from the University of Houston, Clear Lake. She is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

An active civic and community leader, Odette served as chair-elect of the Idaho Hospital Association, chair-elect of Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce, and served on Boise Valley Economic Partnership (BVEP), Idaho Business for Education (IBE), Boise State University Foundation Board, and Boise State University College of Health Sciences Board of Ambassadors. Odette is an active member of the Carol Emmott Fellowship Board – a national organization committed to mentoring exceptional healthcare women leaders to achieve their highest potential and influence as leaders in healthcare. In 2020, Odette was appointed as a board of director to Idaho Power and IDACORP. Most recently, in July 2022, Odette was appointed to the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation Board of Trustees. Odette is a member of the Latino Corporate Directors Association and International Women’s Forum.

Odette’s leadership has been recognized by Modern Health Care as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare in 2021, Top 25 Women in Healthcare in 2020 and 2021, and as one of the nation’s most influential 50 Clinical Executives in Healthcare in 2020. She has also been recognized in Idaho by the Idaho Business Review (IRB) as ICON Award Winner in 2020, #1 in Idaho Business Review’s Power 25 List in 2021, and Woman of the Year in 2021. She most recently was recognized by Boise Metro Chamber as their 2024 Hall of Fame Inductee and Idaho Hospital Association for the Steven A. Millard Star Garnet Award 2024.