Eric Borgerding

Senior Advisor

Eric Borgerding is President and CEO of the Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA), where he previously held positions as Vice President of Government Relations, Senior Vice President, and Executive Vice President. 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.