Kelly Baumer is the vice president of clinical operations for SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital. She is responsible for strategic service line growth and overall hospital operations including the hospital’s interventional platform/perioperative services, imaging/testing platform and laboratory services as well as the key service lines of transplant, trauma, and oncology services. Kelly was the executive responsible for the master development plan for the new SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital which opened in September of 2020. She was instrumental in developing the concept and operationalizing the SSM Health St. Louis Transfer Center which opened in January of 2019. This center accepts and facilitates transfers of over 20,000 patients per year to an SSM Health St. Louis hospital and is a resource for other hospitals in the region.

Kelly started her career as a Physical Therapist and over the past 30 years has had increasing leadership roles in healthcare operations and strategy at one of only two academic medical centers in the St. Louis metropolitan area. She has won numerous awards and accolades in quality and excellence for her work in health care.

Kelly is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. She holds a Master of Business Administration degree and a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Therapy. She is actively involved in numerous community activities.

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