NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Tennr today named Dr. Toby Cosgrove, former president and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, and Cindy Hundorfean, former president and CEO of Allegheny Health Network, as industry advisors to help guide and accelerate Tennr’s reach across health systems.

Both will work directly with Tennr’s product and clinical teams as the company expands to serve its customer base with large integrated delivery networks, where referral volume, payer complexity, and staffing pressure are straining operations.

Tennr simplifies that complexity. Over 400,000 providers nationwide already trust Tennr to move patients forward from intake through treatment. The industry advisors will guide Tennr as the company rolls out additional offerings that help providers surface gaps in documentation before intake, make required updates, and keep care moving.

Cosgrove led Cleveland Clinic for 13 years, growing it into an $8 billion health system serving nearly 8 million patients annually, and continues to serve as an executive advisor. As CEO, Cosgrove championed patient access and experience. He created the chief patient experience officer role and reorganized clinical service lines to allow the system to fill 98% of same-day appointment requests.

“At Cleveland Clinic, we lived up to our promise of being patient-first by opening more avenues to receive care,” said Cosgrove. “Same-day appointments, virtual care, phone consults — we could route each patient to the right option because we understood their needs before intake. Tennr offers all health systems that visibility, so they can direct care appropriately and utilize their highly specialized physicians consistently at the top of their license.”

As CEO of Allegheny Health Network from 2016 to 2023, Hundorfean drove an $85 million financial turnaround in under two years and directed more than $2 billion in capital investment, opening five new hospitals and six cancer centers. She has also served as Chief Living Health Development Officer at Highmark Health, working across the payer-provider divide, and as Chief Administrative Officer for Cleveland Clinic, where she oversaw a $5.5 billion net revenue budget.

“There’s nothing more important to a CEO than having new patients entering their system, but the worst mistake you can make is scheduling patients with the wrong providers. Once you do that, patients lose trust and it’s hard to come back from that,” said Hundorfean. “Tennr’s ability to show your capacity will help systems see patients faster, in the appropriate setting, while devoting fewer resources to administrative checks.”

“We brought Toby and Cindy on because they are just as obsessive as we are about patient access, and they’re not afraid to tell us how we can be better,” said Trey Holterman, co-founder and CEO of Tennr. “They point out our blind spots and make sure that every design decision, every workflow, is made with the physician and patient experience in mind.”

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