Top 25 Women Leaders - 2021

At the beginning of 2020, the rehab hospital was having its best year on record with revenue about $5 million ahead of 2019. It also had successfully tested and launched an innovation that measures a patient’s ability to recover that could be used for value-based contracting. As COVID-19 cases surged, Smith reorganized operations to address new needs, including establishing a COVID care unit and spearheading new research, including into wearable devices that could monitor patient recovery. Among her senior leadership team, 56% are female.