Alan B. Miller

Alan B. Miller is a businessman who is the founder of Universal Health Services, Inc., and currently serves as the company's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Miller founded the company in 1979 and it has grown to become one of the largest healthcare companies in the nation, with annuals revenues of more than $9 billion.

Alan B. Miller was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1937. His father owned a dry cleaner store and his mother worked for a millinery company. As a youth, Miller was active in sports but also worked after-school jobs as a delivery clerk for a grocery store and for Western Union.

Miller’s six foot-five inch height, and basketball skills helped lead his high school team to an undefeated season and a New York City championship in 1954. He received a full scholarship to the University of Utah.

While he was in college, Miller joined the U.S. Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), and was commissioned as a Captain in the U.S. Army and served in the 77th Infantry Division after he completed his education.

Miller began his career in the advertising industry at Young & Rubicam in New York, one of the industry’s largest advertising agencies. As the agency’s youngest vice president, Miller learned about entrepreneurship and risk-taking as he worked with his clients. For example, while he was at Y&R, Miller was instrumental in developing one of the first nationally syndicated television programs, a show called “Cooking With Graham Kerr.”

When his former Wharton roommate came to him in 1969 with an idea for a business, Miller decided to leave the advertising industry for a new venture. His new company, called American Medicorp, would build privately owned hospitals in high growth areas—such as California, Nevada, Texas and Florida—that had few hospitals.

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