Fred Roche MHA

Mr. Roché was appointed Associate Director of Operations at the Marion VA Health Care System effective May 22, 2022.  He previously served at the Administrator for the Wake County VA Outpatient Clinic and Interim Assistant Director for the Durham VA Health Care System.  He began his VA career as a Graduate Healthcare Administration Training Program (GHATP) Administrative Resident at the VA Illiana Healthcare System, Danville, Illinois in June 1996.  Over the course of his career, he has been an Administrative Officer for a VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic in Peoria, Illinois, Chief Purchased Care (Care in the Community) in Columbus, Ohio, Executive Assistant to the Medical Center Director and Systems Redesign Program Manager at the CAPTAIN James A. Lovell Federal Health Care System, North Chicago, Illinois, Assistant Chief Health Administration in Louisville, Kentucky and Administrator of the Fayetteville NC VA Coastal Health Care System which included the Wilmington VA Health Care Center and Jacksonville and Brunswick County Community Based Outpatient Clinics in Southeast North Carolina as well as a detail as the Acting Associate Director for Operations at the Fayetteville VA Medical Center, Fayetteville, NC.

Mr. Roché received his master’s degree in Health Administration from Indiana University in 1997.  He is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives.  He is a graduate of the Leadership VA, Class of 2019.  He is a certified VHA Mentor at the Fellowship level and became a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt in May of 2011.