Laura Kaiser
President and CEO, SSM Health
Kaiser leads a health system with 23 hospitals, 40,000 employees, a health plan and PBM, and collaboratives like Civica Rx. Kaiser was chief operating officer at Intermountain Healthcare after spending more than 15 years with Ascension, as leader of its Gulf Coast/Florida region and president and CEO at Sacred Heart Health System. A new partnership between SSM and Optum will zero in on inpatient care, digital transformation, revenue cycle and a re-engineered patient journey.