Angelia Foster, regional president for Marshfield Medical Center in Beaver Dam, will serve as Moraine Park’s keynote speaker at the Spring 2024 Commencement Ceremony on May 18.
Foster has more than fifteen years of health care leadership experience, including her past role as executive vice president/chief administrative officer at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers in Bryan, Ohio. She began her health care career at Memorial Health System in Springfield, Illinois, where she served as the affiliate vice president of Human Resources and Support Services. Before serving in healthcare, Foster has served as an organizational development consultant for over 20 years, to a variety of human and healthcare entities.
Foster has been in her current role since March 2020. Upon her arrival to Beaver Dam, COVID-19 presented and her team needed to move into incident command, within her first 10 days, to manage the complexities and needs of the health care community. During the fall of 2020, Dodge County was on the NYT Top 10 for positivity cases for COVID-19 for nine weeks. During this difficult season, Foster’s team remained calm to the chaos and served their patients, residents and children. Foster was requested countless times to speak to national, regional and local media sources including the Wall Street Journal about the challenges her community was facing and how her team was responding to those needs. She also participated in weekly radio addresses to help her community understand and manage the COVID-19 impact.
Foster received her master’s in management and organizational behavior from Benedictine University in Lisle, Ill. and bachelor’s in political science and communications from Ohio Dominican University in Columbus, Ohio. She currently resides in Horicon with her husband, David. They are the proud parents of five children and three grandchildren.