As the Chief Executive Officer of Lassen Medical, Frank Hudson led one of California’s oldest primary healthcare groups, as well its largest group operating north of Sacramento. Located in Red Bluff, California, Lasson Medical served 60,000 active patients and over 30 healthcare providers under Hudson’s leadership. With its $22 million operating budget, electronic medical records, and cutting-edge radiology and laboratory services, Lasson Medical and its 125 employees handled 200,000 patient visits annually.
Frank Hudson began his career in the healthcare industry in 1978, working as a student interim assistant administrator at St. Joseph Hospital in Tampa, Florida. Hudson then transitioned to Seton Medical Center in Daly City, California, a facility where, over the next ten years, he rose to become its President and Chief Executive Officer. Beginning as an associate administrator, Hudson worked his way up to become an Executive Vice President/Administrator and Chief Operating Officer within three years and was responsible for Seton’s 357-bed acute urban tertiary medical center. After three years as COO, Hudson was named President and CEO of Seton Medical Center and oversaw the center’s over $100 million operating budget, which affected the center’s cardiology, cardiovascular, surgery, trauma care/emergency base station, primary care, spine and orthopedic, and community hospital programs.
After a short sabbatical, during which he acted as an advisor to the Archbishop of San Francisco for philanthropy, Frank Hudson began a ten-year tenure as the Chief Executive Officer of the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Inc. Founded in 1907 to assist children and families devastated by the 1906 earthquake, Catholic Charities functions as the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s human services arm. While managing a $25 million budget, Hudson and Catholic Charities operated 37 programs in 22 locations in the San Francisco area.
In the years before joining La...