Aphriekah DuHaney-West

Aphriekah DuHaney-West is the Senior Vice President and Area Manager for Kaiser Permanente in the Central Valley Area, which serves San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties in Northern California.

In this role, Aphriekah has executive oversight of the Kaiser Permanente Modesto and Manteca Medical Centers, as well as joint leadership responsibility for Kaiser Permanente’s partnership with St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Stockton and the Kaiser Permanente Medical Group.

She is also responsible for Kaiser Permanente Health Plan and services provided to members outside the hospital setting, including LTAC, SNF, dialysis, hospice, rehab, pharmacy, and others.

With more than 30 years of health care experience and 20 years of executive leadership in academic, tertiary, and quaternary settings, Aphriekah has held many roles, including Chief Nurse Executive, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Executive Officer. Among her areas of expertise and demonstrated success are delivering business efficiency and value, developing organizational environment and conditions for improved and sustained success, physician partnerships, Societal alignment and collaboration, exceptional consumer experience, employee engagement, highly reliable top decile performance, and disciplined system perspective and execution.

As an advocate for educating and developing the community’s youth and promoting workforce development within the health care industry, Aphriekah is tireless advocate for developing successful communities through partnership leveraging health care access, socioeconomic development, workforce development, and policy development with community leaders and elected officials. She serves on economic, healthcare, education, political and chamber boards.

Aphriekah strongly believes in servant leadership, valuing people and shares her experience and passion for health care with others through mentoring and as a leadership coach. She lives by grace, not perfection and is humbled by the privilege to serve.