Eric Borgerding
President and CEO, Wisconsin Hospital Association
Previous to his current role, Eric Borgerding held positions as Vice President of Government Relations, Senior Vice President, and Executive Vice President at WHA. During Borgerding’s tenure, WHA has become one of the most influential and effective advocacy and lobbying organizations in Wisconsin.
Since joining WHA in 2002, Borgerding has assembled and led a highly respected policy and advocacy team while achieving several notable accomplishments, including: restoring the damage cap in medical lawsuits and preserving Wisconsin’s balanced medical malpractice system; creating Wisconsin’s Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital program; enacting legislation creating the Wisconsin Council on Medical Education and Workforce and the Wisconsin Rural Physician Residency Assistance Program; enacting legislation creating the WHA Information Center and nationally-recognized transparency tool PricePoint; enacting the Wisconsin Quality Improvement Act; increasing state funding for graduate medical education and creating new residency programs; enacting Wisconsin’s successful hospital assessment; overhauling Wisconsin’s hospital regulations; building one of Wisconsin’s largest grassroots advocacy networks; and achieving a five-fold increase in contributions to WHA’s political action committee making it the largest in Wisconsin.
Borgerding has over 30 years of Wisconsin advocacy experience and leadership, including serving as Director of Legislative Relations for Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, Director of State Legislative Affairs for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and previously as WHA’s Director of Legislative Relations.
Matthew Stanford, JD, MHA
General Counsel, Wisconsin Hospital Association
Matthew has been with WHA since 2003 working as an attorney in the Government Relations department. He has been in his current role since 2014. He leads WHA’s courtroom advocacy efforts and guides legislative and administrative advocacy on legal and regulatory issues impacting hospitals and health systems. Stanford has a juris doctor from the University of Iowa College of Law and a masters of health administration from the University of Iowa College of Public Health.