By Anita Fry
Vice President, Marketing and Communications
(TOPEKA, Kan., Sept. 4, 2024) – Robert Kenagy, M.D., a native Kansan and President and CEO of Stormont Vail Health since April 2019, announced his plans to retire from his leadership role in May 2025. Prior to leading the regional healthcare system, he served as Stormont Vail’s Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for three years.
The Stormont Vail Board of Directors has started a search process to identify Dr. Kenagy’s successor.
Under Dr. Kenagy’s leadership, the Topeka-based organization has had significant regional growth to ensure high quality care for patients and communities across eastern Kansas. This includes the opening of a state-of-the-art Manhattan primary and specialty care campus, and preventing the closure of a county hospital and rural health clinic in Junction City, that now operates on Stormont Vail’s Flint Hills Campus. Plans are underway to enhance clinic facilities in Emporia, where the organization has served patients for 30 years.
Dr. Kenagy also led the Stormont Vail team and communities it serves through the COVID-19 pandemic. He spent 22 years serving as a family medicine physician. He has a Master’s in Medical Management from Tulane University and received his medical training at the University of Kansas School of Medicine in 1987. Dr. Kenagy completed his Family Medicine Residency through the University of Kansas School of Medicine Wesley Medical Center.