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Leah M. Glasgo

Trustee, term 2026-2028

Market President | UnityPoint Health-Fort Dodge

Last verified November 4, 2026

5 Red Flags
Affiliations
  • •Market President of UnityPoint Health-Fort Dodge since January 2019, running Trinity Regional Medical Center and the system's Fort Dodge market in north-central Iowa; also interim president of UnityPoint Health-Sioux City from 2021 to 2024.
  • •Elected to the AHA Board of Trustees for a three-year term starting January 1, 2026; previously served on AHA Regional Policy Board 6.
  • •Board of Directors member of the Iowa Hospital Association, the state hospital lobby.
  • •Previously President & CEO of Stewart Memorial Community Hospital in Lake City, Iowa, for six years; joined UnityPoint in 2013 as VP of Rural Development, then VP of Clinical Operations and COO in Sioux City.
  • •Local boards include the Fort Dodge Betterment Association, Fort Dodge Growth Alliance and Athletics for Education and Success.
  • •Registered nurse since 1997; BSN from University of Nebraska Medical Center, MHA from Des Moines University (named its 2026 College of Health Sciences Alumna of the Year); FACHE.
Financial / Compensation
  • •Glasgo was paid $602,275 in 2024 ($508,390 reportable plus $93,885 other compensation), all from related organizations, according to Trinity Regional Medical Center's Form 990.
  • •Her pay peaked at about $1.17 million in 2022 ($1,067,658 plus $100,798) and was about $981,000 in 2023 while she also ran the Sioux City market; it fell about 39% in 2024 after the interim role ended.
  • •Trinity Regional Medical Center (Fort Dodge) reported $206.0 million in revenue, $187.9 million in expenses and $18.1 million in net income for 2024, with $224.7 million in net assets and $29.7 million in liabilities.
  • •Revenue at the Fort Dodge hospital has grown about 60% since 2018, from $128.8 million to $206.0 million in 2024.
  • •Parent filer Iowa Health System (UnityPoint Health) reported a $51.4 million deficit on $442.4 million revenue in 2024 and negative net assets of $56.0 million at the parent level; its 990 discloses first-class or charter travel for executives.
  • •UnityPoint's parent 990 for 2024 lists CEO Scott Kizer at about $2.37 million and former CEO Clay Holderman, who left in October 2023, at about $1.55 million.
  • •Fort Dodge is building a $39.8 million surgery renovation and expansion due to open in March 2027, with $10 million committed by the Trinity Foundation.
Lobbying and Political
  • •UnityPoint Health reported $240,000 in in-house federal lobbying in 2025 ($60,000 per quarter) and $180,000 through Q3 2026, covering the 340B program, Medicare Advantage, rural health, telehealth and reimbursement.
  • •In Q3 2026 UnityPoint hired Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies ($20,000 that quarter) to lobby on Medicare, Medicaid, the 340B program and safety-net issues; the lobbyist is Rodney Whitlock, former health policy director for Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).
  • •Glasgo sits on the Iowa Hospital Association board, which lobbies the Iowa legislature on Medicaid reimbursement, workforce and rural hospital funding.
  • •The AHA reported $25.47 million in federal lobbying in 2025 and $14.39 million through Q3 2026; on the board, Glasgo is positioned as its rural voice.
Revolving Door
  • •No government positions found for Glasgo.
  • •UnityPoint's new outside lobbyist, Rodney Whitlock, was a senior health aide to Sen. Chuck Grassley and the Senate Finance Committee, a direct line from Iowa's senior senator's office to UnityPoint's 340B and Medicare agenda.
  • •Glasgo moved from AHA Regional Policy Board 6 to the national Board of Trustees in 2026, the standard pipeline for executives from member systems.
Home System Record
  • •Iowa hospitals had a combined fair-share deficit of -$162 million per year in the Lown Institute's 2020-2022 data; 70% of Iowa nonprofit hospitals received more in tax breaks than they spent on community investment. Fort Dodge's hospital-specific figure was not published in the report.
  • •UnityPoint announced in April 2026 it would eliminate 207 IT roles, and confirmed on July 8, 2026 that it is outsourcing revenue cycle work to Omega Healthcare, citing sustained financial pressure; it says the revenue cycle cuts affect under 1% of its 31,000-person workforce.
  • •Trinity Health sold MercyOne Siouxland Medical Center's operating assets in Sioux City to UnityPoint on September 1, 2025 for $3.5 million in cash, consolidating hospital competition in the market Glasgo ran on an interim basis from 2021 to 2024.
  • •Under Glasgo, Fort Dodge has added a cardiology program and expanded cardiovascular, orthopedic, oncology and women's services, building Trinity Regional into the referral hub for north-central Iowa.
Litigation and Scrutiny
  • •No 2025 or 2026 lawsuits, settlements, False Claims Act cases or state AG actions naming Glasgo or UnityPoint Health-Fort Dodge were found in available sources.
  • •Trinity Regional Medical Center's Form 990 checks the box for reported conflict-of-interest transactions (Schedule L); details were not reviewed.

Red Flags

Glasgo was paid $602,275 in 2024 and about $1.17 million in 2022 to run a rural market of roughly $200 million in revenue, all routed through related UnityPoint organizations rather than the hospital that lists her as an officer.

UnityPoint absorbed Sioux City competitor MercyOne Siouxland for $3.5 million in September 2025 after it lost $91.2 million under Trinity Health in fiscal 2025, leaving Sioux City with fewer competing hospital systems.

Trinity Regional posted an $18.1 million surplus in 2024 and holds $224.7 million in net assets, while 70% of Iowa nonprofit hospitals ran fair-share deficits.

UnityPoint hired a former Grassley health aide to lobby on the 340B program and Medicare in 2026, the same year it cut 207 IT jobs and outsourced revenue cycle staff.

UnityPoint's growth strategy runs on consolidation, including the 2023 letter of intent with New Mexico's Presbyterian Healthcare Services to form a joint parent company, the kind of scale play the AHA defends as necessary for rural access.

Pattern Summary

Glasgo is the AHA board's rural nurse-turned-executive, used to make the rural hospital case to Congress. The 990s show a system-level executive paid $600,000 to $1.17 million a year to run a profitable regional hub, while UnityPoint consolidates competitors, outsources back-office jobs and hires a Grassley alum to protect the 340B program and Medicare money. The rural framing obscures a hub-and-spoke system whose strategy is scale.

Sources and Citations

  1. 1.https://www.aha.org/about/leadership/board
  2. 2.https://www.unitypoint.org/locations/unitypoint-health---trinity-regional-medical-center/leadership
  3. 3.https://www.unitypoint.org/news-and-articles/press-releases/glasgo-elected-to-american-hospital-association-board-of-trustees
  4. 4.https://www.unitypoint.org/news-and-articles/press-releases/leah-glasgo-named-des-moines-university-college-of-health-sciences-alumna-of-the-year
  5. 5.https://www.unitypoint.org/news-and-articles/press-releases/unitypoint-health-fort-dodge-announces-surgery-renovation-and-expansion
  6. 6.https://www.unitypoint.org/news-and-articles/press-releases/unitypoint-health-announces-it-and-revenue-cycle-changes-to-ensure-continued-access-to-local-high-quality-patient-care
  7. 7.https://www.unitypoint.org/news-and-articles/press-releases/unitypoint-health-confirms-revenue-cycle-changes-to-ensure-continued-access-to-local-high-quality-patient-care
  8. 8.https://www.unitypoint.org/news-and-articles/press-releases/unitypoint-health-and-presbyterian-healthcare-services-announce-intent-to-form-new-healthcare-organization
  9. 9.https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/421009175
  10. 10.https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/421435199
  11. 11.https://www.trinity-health.org/sites/default/files/newDocuments/2_Trinity_Health_FY26%20Financial_Statements_LongForm.pdf
  12. 12.https://lownhospitalsindex.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/fair-share-2025-national-report-20250409.pdf
  13. 13.https://lda.gov/api/v1/filings/?client_name=UnityPoint&filing_year=2025
  14. 14.https://lda.gov/api/v1/filings/?client_name=UnityPoint&filing_year=2026
  15. 15.https://lda.gov/api/v1/filings/?client_name=American+Hospital+Association&registrant_name=American+Hospital+Association&filing_year=2025