Andy Canning

Andy is proving that outpatient imaging can grow fast and serve patients well at the same time. He oversees a $210 million-plus ambulatory enterprise of 35 urgent care sites, eight outpatient imaging centers and eight radiation therapy facilities across Washington, D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia, with more than 800 employees.

He has driven transformational growth across the clinical portfolio, doubling earnings in both imaging and radiation oncology while steering urgent care to a consistently positive bottom line. He led a systemwide outpatient imaging transformation across eight imaging centers and three hospital campuses that lifted appointment conversion by 9 percentage points as the team worked to close a 20% gap in completed imaging orders.

Andy joined MedStar Health in 2013 as an administrative resident at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. As an assistant vice president, he architected the growth strategy for the MedStar Radiology Network joint venture, delivering 23% multimodality volume growth in three years, and earlier led joint ventures and acquisitions that expanded MedStar’s ambulatory footprint into underserved markets.

Colleagues describe Andy as a culture builder, and he presented MedStar Ambulatory Services’ patient experience service-standards movement at Press Ganey’s national HX25 conference. Beyond MedStar, he serves on the board of Christ House, a Washington, D.C., medical respite organization caring for people experiencing homelessness. Andy also serves on the board of The Healthcare Council, a nonprofit membership organization that brings together hospitals, allied health facilities, and other health-related institutions across the Mid-Atlantic region to reduce costs, strengthen regional cooperation, and advance quality care.