
	Faxton St. Luke&rsquo;s Healthcare (FSLH) and St. Elizabeth Medical Center (SEMC) affiliated as the Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) effective March 2014. MVHS is governed by a single, 18-member board of directors, with nine members from FSLH&rsquo;s board and nine from SEMC&rsquo;s board. The system is operated by a single management team.
	
	&nbsp;Scott H. Perra, FACHE, is president/CEO of MVHS. He joined St. Luke&rsquo;s-Memorial Hospital Center in 1985, becoming the executive vice president/chief operating officer in 1989. He remained in the position through the Faxton Hospital and St. Luke&rsquo;s-Memorial Hospital Center consolidation beginning in November 1998. He was appointed president/CEO of FLSH in January 2009.
	
	Mr. Perra received his bachelor&rsquo;s degree in Health Services Management from SUNYIT Utica/Rome in Marcy, New York, and his master&rsquo;s degree in Management Science from the State University of New York at Binghamton in Binghamton, New York. He was designated a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives in 2000.
	
	The MVHS serves the geographic area of Oneida, Herkimer and Madison counties and is an integrated delivery system with 4,200 full-time equivalent employees and a combined operating budget of $537 million.
