Bill Leyhe

Founder / President

Bill Leyhe has a thirty-year career encompassing virtually all areas of health care, in particular hospital operations, transactions, strategic planning, legislative and health plan contracting.

Mr. Leyhe began his career with Tenet Healthcare as Chief Operating officer of Century City Hospital in Los Angeles. He was then appointed the CEO and President of Norwegian American Hospital in Chicago. He was an inaugural recipient of Tenet’s Circle of Excellence Award as outstanding hospital CEO. He then returned to California as Vice President of Operations where he had operational responsibility for nine acute care hospitals.

He then was appointed Vice President, Development for Tenet’s Western Division where he was responsible for hospital acquisitions and for the development of the Western Division Medical Group and independent practice association (IPA) strategy. During his tenure in this position Tenet acquired five hospitals in the west including Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs.

He was then appointed Vice President Managed Care and Strategy for Tenet‘s Western Division where his department was responsible for managed care contracting activities for 39 hospitals. He was also Tenet’s representative for legislative and medical group issues including operational responsibility for Tenet‘s four medical groups and 12 IPAs.

Mr. Leyhe formed the Peira Group in 2008 with several senior executives from Tenet Healthcare where for the past several years they have been instrumental in the acquisition and strategic planning for many of California’s largest medical groups and hospital systems.

Mr. Leyhe has served as Chairman of Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC), Chairman of the Integrated Delivery Systems Association and committee member of the legislative board and governing board board of Federation of American Hospitals. He is a frequent speaker at various healthcare association functions. He graduated from Cornell University and has his Masters in Business Administration.