Chief Executive Officer
Boston MedFlight
Ms. Hughes is a non-profit executive with over 35 years’ experience in non-profit and healthcare industries. She is a CPA and graduate of Merrimack College with a BS in Accounting. She also holds an MBA in Finance from Bentley University.
Ms. Hughes is a nationally recognized expert on critical care transport and consortium models of healthcare. She has provided expert advice to regulators as it relates to critical care transport and is asked to comment on proposed legislation. She also provides advice to other air medical services considering creation of transport consortiums and advice on transport billing and operations.
Ms. Hughes joined Boston MedFlight in 1998 and served as their Chief Financial Officer for 18 years and Chief Executive Officer for the past nine years. She is the Chair of the Association of Critical Care Transport (a grass roots patient advocacy organization) and on the Board of the Air Medical Operators Association (a transport safety organization) and serves on several other non-profit Boards. For the past three years, Boston MedFlight has been recognized as a “Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts” by the Boston Globe and Women’s Edge and Maura was recently recognized by the Boston Business Journal’s as an Innovator in Healthcare for 2025.
Executive Forum (Executive Leaders Welcome)
Monday, October 27, 2025
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST