Lewisburg health care leader Ryan McNally named to Pennsylvania Forty Under 40

Ryan McNally’s place on Pennsylvania’s Forty Under 40 list is more than a personal milestone for a 32-year-old health care executive. It is another sign that Lewisburg’s hospital leadership is producing people with influence far beyond Union County, at a time when decisions about staffing, service lines and patient access carry real weight for the Central Susquehanna Valley.

City & State Pennsylvania named McNally to its 2026 Forty Under 40 list, a group of 40 Pennsylvania professionals under age 40 recognized for shaping the commonwealth’s institutions and communities. The honors were marked May 28 at the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts in Harrisburg.

McNally is now senior director of strategy execution for WellSpan Health, but his local ties run deep. He spent nearly a decade at WellSpan Evangelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg, the hospital that has long anchored health care in Union County. WellSpan says the hospital’s roots go back to the Evangelical Home on the Slifer Farm, where the infirmary began accepting community patients in 1926, and to the current Lewisburg site, where a new hospital opened in 1953.

That history matters because Evangelical is no longer standing alone. The hospital affiliated with WellSpan Health in February 2024 and officially joined the system in July 2024. WellSpan describes the combined network as more than 21,000 team members, 2,000 employed providers, 220 locations and eight hospitals across Pennsylvania and Maryland. McNally’s rise inside that system suggests Lewisburg remains part of the conversation when it comes to regional planning.

He was already visible in local hospital work before the statewide recognition. In April 2025, WellSpan Foundation listed McNally among the ambassadors for the Evangelical Community Hospital Foundation’s annual challenge, a campaign aimed at raising awareness of the hospital’s impact in the Central Susquehanna Valley. A separate local announcement said Sue Auman replaced McNally as director of the Miller Center after he moved into his system strategy role.

For patients and families in Lewisburg, that kind of leadership pipeline can shape more than titles. Executives who know the campus and the community often help steer how care is delivered, how teams are hired and retained, and how resources flow between Lewisburg and the wider WellSpan system. McNally’s recognition underscores that the county’s hospital remains a training ground for leaders with a seat at a much larger table.