Andrea Cotter
Corporate Vice President of Operations
Centra Health
Andrea Cotter is a healthcare executive, currently serving as the Corporate Vice President of Operations for Centra Health, in Lynchburg, Virginia. Andrea joined Centra in June of 2023.
Andrea has a wide array of experience in hospital operations, beginning her career as an inpatient claim analyst for HCA in Richmond VA. She then served in a variety of front-line caregiver and support roles at VCU Health System during her didactic studies of the VCU MHA program; including patient registrar, transporter, and US News and World Report data liaison. Andrea completed her MHA program with a hospital operations fellowship at Sutter Health, in their flagship facility, Sutter Medical Center Sacramento. She remained employed with the organization post Fellowship, serving as a key inpatient operations project leader during the hospital’s monumental opening of their consolidated medical campus. This project included the decommissioning and closing of one inpatient facility, the opening of a new inpatient tower, and the transitioning from paper records to an electronic health record in late 2015.
Andrea went on to serve in various hospital finance and operations roles across the country; Roper St. Francis Health System – Charleston SC, Wellstar Health System – Atlanta, GA, and most recently before Centra, the Chief Operating Officer at Bon Secours Southside Medical Center, part of the Richmond Bon Secours market in January of 2021.
Andrea shares that she has always been fascinated with hospital operations and loves the dynamic environment of inpatient operations.
On a personal note, Andrea is passionate about serving in her role as a wife, mom, and community member. She loves to garden, read, walk/hike, spend time in nature, and is constantly furthering her education in her creative outlets of psychology and interior design.