Jeanette G Clough

Jeanette Clough is president and CEO of Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, a regional teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. Clough began her career as a staff nurse and clinical nurse specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Under her leadership, Mount Auburn has been transformed from a fiscally challenged community hospital to one recognized locally and nationally for quality of care, steady growth, and fiscal performance. The hospital has been recognized as a Top 100 Hospital for Cardiac Services and has been listed as one of the “Best Places to Work” by the Boston Business Journal for seven years in a row. Clough previously served as chief operating officer of WalWest Health Systems, Inc., vice president for patient care at WalthamWeston Hospital & Medical Center, and president and CEO of Deaconess Waltham Hospital. As chair of the Massachusetts Hospital Association, Clough contributed to the Massachusetts health care reform initiatives. She serves on the Health Forum Board of the American Hospital Association and is a member of the Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors. She holds an undergraduate degree in nursing from Boston University, a master’s degree from Boston College and received an MHA from Suffolk University’s Sawyer School of Business in 1996.