Ahrens Begins Service as Missouri Hospital Association Board Chair

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — C. Todd Ahrens, FACHE, President and CEO of Hannibal Regional Healthcare System, was elected to serve as 2022 Chair of the Missouri Hospital Association Board of Trustees. His one-year term as chair began Oct. 18, 2021, and he will serve through Dec. 31, 2022. Ahrens’ service began early when MHA’s present board chair, Jon D. Doolittle was selected to serve as the association’s President and CEO.

As chair, Ahrens’ duties include overseeing and directing activities of the MHA Board of Trustees, acting as a day-to-day adviser to MHA, and testifying before committees of the Missouri General Assembly and Congress. He also will lead a Missouri delegation to Washington, D.C., twice during the year and will act as a state and national spokesperson for Missouri’s hospitals.

Ahrens joined Hannibal Regional Healthcare as General Counsel in 2007. He previously was employed by the Rendlen Law Firm, PC, and served as a partner of Ahrens, Hale & Lemon, LLC. He earned a bachelor’s degree and Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri – Columbia.

Ahrens is a member of the Missouri Bar, the Tenth Judicial Circuit Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the American College of Health Care Executives and the American Health Lawyers Association.

The Missouri Hospital Association is a not-for-profit association in Jefferson City that represents 141 Missouri hospitals. In addition to representation and advocacy on behalf of its membership, the association offers continuing education programs on current health care topics and seeks to educate the public about health care issues.

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