David McCombs is vice president of Enterprise Resource Planning/Supply
Chain Operations for the Bon Secours Health System, a $2.3 billion not-for-
profit Catholic health system. McCombs was named to this position in 2002.
McCombs is responsible for directing the Bon Secours Health System's imple-
mentation of the Lawson enterprise resource planning system and its supply
chain operations. This includes the operation of the Lawson finance and pro-
curement system components at all facilities, materials management and direct-
ing system-wide supply standardization and cost savings initiatives.

A 25-year veteran of health care operations, McCombs served as executive vice
president/administrator of the Bon Secours DePaul Medical Center from 1997 to
2002. Prior to his tenure with Bon Secours, McCombs was chief operating offi-
cer of the Moses Cone Hospital, a 550-bed not-for-profit community teaching
hospital in Greensboro, N.C. McCombs started his career as assistant adminis-
trator of a 400-bed community hospital and progressed in responsibility to
include being the administrator of a 150-bed rural hospital and administrator of
a 300-bed community hospital, all in the Carolinas.

McCombs received a bachelor of science degree from Wake Forest University,
in Winston-Salem, N.C., and a master's degree in hospital health services
administration from Duke University.

McCombs is a member of the American Heart Association, the North Carolina
Hospital Association and the Triad Health Executives Forum.