Dalton Tong

Dalton A. Tong is the former President and CEO of the Greater Southeast Healthcare System (GSHS) – a non-profit multi-institutional health care delivery system comprised of two acute care hospitals, a complement of long-term care facilities (including two nursing homes), two home health agencies, two medical office buildings, real estate holdings, outpatient pharmacies, and other for-profit entities. The System, based in the District of Columbia, owned and manages health care facilities in both Washington, D.C. and Maryland. He is presently a Senior Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University Carey School of Business.

Mr. Tong’s professional career spans more than thirty years of progressive health care experience in which he has provided leadership and vision in every sphere of operations and management. Prior to joining GSHS, Mr. Tong served in various capacities with increasingly significant areas of responsibility at South Baltimore General Hospital (now Harbor Hospital Center in Maryland), leaving in 1985 as its Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). At Greater Southeast, he served as Corporate Vice President of Finance (CFO), Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO), and later as the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). It was during this tenure of leadership that GSHS received national acclaim for its community health care initiatives and was singled out and prominently recognized by U.S. News and World Report as a health care model worthy of national replication.

Mr. Tong is an alumnus of Harvard University’s Executive Programs in Health Policy and Management. He earned a Master’s degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Corporate Management and completed a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting (magna cum laude honors) from the University of Baltimore. His earlier education includes diplomas and certificates from the Royal Charter, the London Chamber of Commerce and the University of London.

Among a number of professional credentials, Tong is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and held an appointment as a Senior Associate Faculty of The Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health where he lectured in the Graduate Department of Health Policy and Management. He had a dual appointment at Hopkins Carey School of Business and School of Medicine where he was designated a Senior Professional Instructor, and lectured in the Business of Medicine and related MBA Program(s). He was appointed to the full time Faculty at the University of Baltimore where he taught Financial Accounting to undergraduate and graduate students. While there, he served as the Director of the University’s Accounting Honors Program, and the School’s Executive in Residence. Tong recently was designated a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) by the Institute of Management Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)

His active involvement in the health care industry has been punctuated by his varied and diverse service on local community, regional and national boards. He served as President of the Washington Metropolitan Chapter of the National Association of Health Services Executives (NAHSE), and also sat on its National board. While with the Healthcare Financial Management Association (FHMA), Tong held the position of President of the local DC chapter and served also on the National Board. He served for three years as Chairman of HFMA’s National Advisory Group on Diversity. Mr. Tong also served as a trustee of the Federal City Council and as a member of the Economic Club of Washington.