Serving more than 20-years as a healthcare executive, Yannis Angouras provides a breadth of experience and leadership in operations and strategy from his work in acute-care hospitals and integrated health systems. His current mission is to transform mental health by pursuing possibilities for the Greater Sacramento Area that exceed its current potential. His commitment is to protect life and health by providing an exceptional quality of care with compassion, dignity, and respect.

In his role as the Chief Executive Officer oversees the Heritage Oaks Hospital, a 125-bed Mental Health Facility, the HOPE Center, a 16-bed Psychiatric Health Facility, The Oaks Outpatient Centers with its four outpatient locations, a state-of-the-art ECT center and the HOPE Crisis Stabilization Unit. Prior to this role, Yannis served as the Chief Operating Officer at Aldara Hospital and Medical Center, a Henry Ford International facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His main responsibility was to establish the first fully integrated health system in Saudi Arabia. During his tenure at Kaiser Permanente he served as the COO of the Los Angeles Medical Center, a 540-bed tertiary medical center and academic institute. In this position he oversaw hospital operations, strategy, and growth, including their 68-bed Mental Health Center. And before that, he worked for Providence Health and Services as the Regional Transformation Officer and Regional Manager for Supply Chain and Support Services. While living in Greece, Yannis Angouras was the CEO of the University Hospital of Patras, and earlier the CEO of Aigio General Hospital in Achaia.

Yannis brings global expertise in Integrated Systems, Operational Excellence, Growth Strategies, People Development and Financial Performance. He has a history of community involvement, having supported programs related to youth unemployment, minority owned business growth and homelessness.

Yannis holds a Master’s in Health Administration from the University of Southern California. He also graduated from the Extended Leadership Training at Harvard Business School and earned a Lean Six Sigma Gold Belt from the Six Sigma Academy. He is the husband of a beautiful and very successful dentist Dr. Vasi Bazos, and he is the father of two sons, Nasos and Kleos.

*pending December Board approval