Ron Doncaster

About Ron Doncaster

Ron Doncaster is the Interim Chief Operating Officer at Tampa General Hospital (TGH), one of the nation’s leading academic health systems and the primary teaching hospital for the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine.

Doncaster, who joined Tampa General in April 2024, is responsible for overseeing all clinical and operational strategies, including managing partnerships with key constituents. He is a solutions-focused leader who uniquely balances adaptability and decisiveness to achieve clinical operations, service and support, strategic planning and execution, budget and cost control, and continuous improvement.

In addition to his current role with Tampa General, Doncaster is the principal owner of Hospital Operations Insights, LLC, a consultancy based in Massachusetts that specializes in hospital support service operations and management.

Doncaster brings more than two decades of health care leadership experience to Tampa General. Before starting Hospital Operations Insights, LLC, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for nearly two years at Catholic Medical Center, a nonprofit acute-care hospital and with 330 licensed beds and an affiliated medical staff of more than 400 providers and over 3,000 employees, it is one of New Hampshire’s largest health systems. In this role, Doncaster directed daily organization-wide clinical and support services, including oversight of compliance, Outpatient Rehab, Imaging, The Pain Clinic and the Wound Center. He led the development of programs for operations improvement, quality care delivery, revenue enhancement and volume growth. He also innovated primary care processes to drive efficient workflows and continuous process improvement.

For more than five years, Doncaster served as Vice President of Operations and Performance Management at Steward Health Care System, where he directed system-wide operations for Facilities, Biomedical Engineering, Environmental Health, Safety and Security for Steward’s 35 community-based hospitals in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Texas, Utah, Arizona and Alaska.

Doncaster’s other previous leadership roles have included working as the Vice President of Operations of St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Chief Operating Officer at Lynn Community Health Center and Director of Operations Management Services at Newton-Wellesley Hospital among others.

Doncaster earned a Master of Science in Management, with a concentration in Health Care Administration, from Lesley University and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Fitchburg State University. He is an Advisory Board Fellow and a United States Army National Guard veteran.