Robert M. Hayes (born 12 November 1952) is the president of Community Healthcare Network since 2015. Before working in healthcare, Hayes primarily worked in law at multiple firms throughout the United States from 1977 to 2001. During his law career, Hayes started the 1979 lawsuit Callahan v. Carey where he was ruled in favor of making New York homeless shelters available based on the New York Constitution.
Hayes extended his work with the homeless after creating the National Coalition for the Homeless in 1982. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1985. Upon moving to healthcare in 2001, he worked at Medicare Rights Center from 2001 to 2009 and Universal American from 2010 to 2014.