|
SUSAN NESTOR LEVY
Susan Nestor Levy is the Chief Advocacy Officer at Ascension Health, the nation’s largest nonprofit hospital system. In her role as Chief Advocacy Officer, Ms. Levy oversees the successful development and implementation of Ascension Health’s 2020 goal of 100% access and 100% coverage for those most vulnerable, a system-wide strategy entitled “Healthcare That Leaves No One Behind”. In addition to her role to lead one of three pillars of Ascension Health’s strategic direction, Ms. Levy is a member of the President’s Council, Ascension Health’s senior leadership team. Ms. Levy manages the system-wide functions of transformational access and public policy research, national legislative leadership, advocacy, public policy, and government relations. She has overseen the design and successful implementation of a system “catalyst role” that resulted in the piloting of 30+ community-wide collaborative “access leadership models” throughout the U.S., soliciting over $150 million private and public financing. The access leadership initiative is now fully imbedded within Ascension Health’s operations. In addition, she is represents Ascension Health nationally in the areas of expanding healthcare access, legislation and public policy, partnering with key national organizations considered essential to implement Ascension Health national agenda.
Prior to joining Ascension Health, Ms. Levy spent six years in Washington, D.C. working for the Senate Finance Committee and subsequently leading Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association’s health policy shop. Her time in the Senate coincided with the historic Clinton health reform debate, placing her as one of three healthcare Committee (Majority) staff members who advised the Senate Finance Committee Chairman and Committee Members on all healthcare legislative proposals from 1992-1996 (including broad health reform, Omnibus Reconciliation Acts, the Balanced Budget Act, and the precursor to the major federal health insurance regulation and children’s coverage legislation, i.e., HIPAA and SCHIP).
Additionally, Ms. Levy worked for ten years for Health One Corporation (now Allina) in Minneapolis, Minnesota where she held positions of increasing responsibility, including Vice President of Strategic Development and Director of Hospital Planning. Prior to joining Health One, she was Director of Services for the Aged and Director of Planning for Mercy Health Services (now Trinity Health) in Michigan.
Ms. Levy currently serves as Board Member of the David A. Winston Health Policy Fellowship; a Board Member of the Seton Institute, an international healthcare relief organization; a Board Member of the Daughters of Charity St. Louis Foundation; a Member of the National Advisory Council for the Department of Health Administration in the School of Public Health at Saint Louis University; an Advisory Board Member for the St. Louis University School of Law Center for Health Law Studies Advisory Board. Ms. Levy received a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind., and holds a master's of hospital and health services administration degree from Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO.
|
|
