Mercy Health has hired Chris Hilton as senior vice president of operations finance, a new position.

Hilton reports to Debbie Bloomfield, chief financial officer of Mercy Health. The Cincinnati-based nonprofit claims to be Ohio’s largest hospital system based on 5.9 million patient interactions a year.

Hilton had been chief financial officer of Angel MedFlight Worldwide Air Ambulance Services (also known as Aviation West Charters) in Scottsdale, Ariz., for the last two years.

Hilton previously was senior vice president of operations finance for Health Management Associates, a for-profit Florida firm where he worked for more than 16 years. John Starcher, CEO of Mercy Health, was previously chief executive officer of Health Management Associates, which had 71 hospitals and nearly $7 billion in net revenue before it was sold to Community Health Systems in 2014. Hilton also spent five years as an accountant with Draffin & Tucker, a Georgia accounting firm whose specialties include health care.

Hilton is now responsible for finance for the Mercy Health home office in Cincinnati, supply chain, accounts payable, reimbursement, capital and long-range planning, support services and oversight of finance and performance for revenue cycle.

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