Jan Grigsby, a health care administrator of about 30 years who brings clinical experience to his executive position, has been named the new chief financial officer of AnMed.
He replaces former CFO Christine Pearson, who retired after a decorated career.
"My goal is to maintain and fortify what has been built here and be part of a team that grows quality, access and financial strength," Grisgby said. "All those go together to make AnMed what is has become and what it will continue to be. I truly believe that quality drives the bottom line and not the other way around. If you keep that in view, then you're going to make the right choices for the patient and the patient's family. That's the most important thing."
Grigsby last served as CFO at Southeast Georgia Health System. Prior to that he served as CFO for Springhill Health System in Mobile, Alabama, and Methodist Le Bonheur in Memphis, Tennessee.
He started working in health care while he was working his way through college. He served as a telemetry technician and a unit secretary in an ICU, then became a physical therapy technician, then he became an open heart technician and eventually an autotransfusionist, or a cell-saver.
His financial career began shortly thereafter.
"My clinical years helped train me for some of the decisions that I would have to make down the road, that better understanding of what nurses and techs and doctors, for that matter, go through on a daily basis," he said. "Quality health care isn't independent to clinicians. I think it begins at preregistration, at scheduling - taking care of the patient and the patient's family, understanding what their responsibilities are going to be throughout the whole health care experience, and then all the way through the end."
Grigsby and his wife of 32 years, Laurie, have two daughters.
About AnMed
Founded in 1908, AnMed is an independent, not-for-profit health system serving Upstate South Carolina and northeast Georgia. It is licensed for 648 beds and anchored by AnMed Medical Center, a 495-bed acute-care hospital that's earned the prestigious Magnet designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center since 2012. Also included are a heart and vascular center, a comprehensive cancer center, a maternity center, a behavioral health hospital, a rehabilitation hospital and AnMed Integrated Therapy locations to increase and enhance access to outpatient therapy services. Among new locations for the growing system, the AnMed Piedmont campus and its freestanding emergency department opened in 2025. More than 60 physician practices are also among service sites spread throughout the region. The system has 620 physicians on medical staff and about 3,600 employees.
Guided by core values of compassion, innovation, integrity, accountability and collaboration, AnMed was named one of the nation's "Great Community Hospitals" by Becker's Hospital Review. It is one of three systems in the nation to earn the 2024 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award from the American Hospital Association. Learn more at AnMed.org.