Luanne Thomas Ewald, M.H.A., FACHE

Ms. Thomas Ewald is a graduate of Mercy High School, Farmington Hills, Michigan. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a Masters in Hospital and Health Administration from Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio.  She also completed a course at University of Pennsylvania Wharton Executive Education on
Executive Presence and Influence.

Ms. Thomas Ewald is currently the Chief Operating Officer at the University of Michigan Health’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital.  She previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer at Children’s Hospital of Michigan (CHM).

Ms. Thomas Ewald is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). She is the Past-President of the Midwest Chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives (MCACHE).  She currently serves as the Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees for the Children’s Foundation and serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for United Way of Southeast Michigan.  She is also an active board member with the following organizations: Make-A-Wish Michigan, Ronald McDonald House Ann Arbor, The Parade Company, and Mercy High School. She is the Chairwoman of the Michigan Hospital Association Council on Children’s Health and in 2020 she was appointed to the American Hospital Association’s Council on Maternal and Child Health.  She is a member of the Public Policy Committee for the Children’s Hospital Association and the College Leadership Council at the Marquette University College of Nursing.  In 2017, Governor Rick Snyder appointed her to the Early Childhood Investment Executive Committee for the State of Michigan, and she was reappointed in 2021 by Governor Gretchen Whitmer.  She is also a co-host of 760 AM WJR’s Women Who Lead program, featuring and highlighting successful women leaders throughout the State of Michigan.  She is a frequent speaker of healthcare strategy, leadership and leading with empathy.

In 2017, she was awarded Inforum’s Inner Circle Award which recognizes the region’s most accomplished and admired women.  In 2018, she was named as one of the Notable Women in Healthcare by Crain’s Detroit Business and as one of Becker’s Hospital Review’s Women to Watch. In 2019, she was awarded the Leadership Detroit Inspirational Leadership Award by the Detroit Regional Chamber and the Teen Champion Award by Wish Upon a Teen. In 2021, she was named as one of Crain’s Detroit Business 100 Most Influential Women in the State of Michigan. In 2022, she was named as one of the Esteemed Women of Michigan and in 2024 was named as one of the Notable Leaders in Healthcare by Crain’s Detroit Business.  She was a 2025 recipient of DBusiness Magazine’s Powered by Women Award.