Burlington, Vt. – University of Vermont Health Network’s senior financial leader is among chief financial officers (CFOs) recently highlighted by one of the nation’s leading medical news publications.

Rick Vincent, executive vice president for finance and chief financial officer of UVM Health Network, was named among the ‘189 hospital and health system CFOs to know’ for 2025 by Becker’s Hospital Review. The publication noted that Vincent, who leads financial operations for the health system, has unified administrative functions and led major cost-control and revenue enhancement initiatives that resulted in a $175 million financial improvement from fiscal year 2022 to 2024.

“These accomplished leaders play a pivotal role in driving strategic planning, overseeing expansions and guiding joint ventures,” the publication wrote. “Tasked with ensuring financial stability and long-term sustainability, these CFOs are essential to the overall success and growth of their organizations.”

Since joining UVM Health Network in 1994 as a staff accountant, Vincent has held nine different positions across the health system – including financial analyst and senior vice president of finance for University of Vermont Medical Center, and director of medical group operations for University of Vermont Medical Group, which employs the health systems’ providers.

Vincent’s numerous roles over three decades have resulted in deep institutional knowledge and experience, making him uniquely qualified to guide financial integration, transformation and

strategic growth across a complex rural academic health system that serves more than one million people in communities across Vermont and northern New York.

Vincent’s work includes finding creative solutions to workforce challenges, helping to grow the health system’s industry-leading Pathway Program supporting employees career growth and development; as well as building staff housing and an early childhood education center located in South Burlington. Those apartments, the first of which opened in 2022, provide accessible, high-quality housing for nearly 200 employees. The education center, which opened earlier this year in partnership with One Arts Community Schools, provides high-quality, flexible childcare to children ages 6 weeks to 5 years old.

Vincent also leads financial integration across the health system, aligning a wide range of health care organizations that includes community hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals, an academic medical center and continuing care services.

“As an academic health system serving a rural region that is home to more than one million people, we have a clear responsibility to our patients and communities,” said Vincent. “Acting as good stewards of health care dollars, charting a sustainable path forward while being bold, innovative and responsible, and pursuing efficiency and affordability for our patients are all values which have guided our work throughout my time with the health system.”