Renown Health is pleased to announce that Susan Lee, DO, MBA will serve as Chief Operating Officer for Renown South Meadows Medical Center. Lee begins her new role succeeding Chris Nicholas, who resigned last month for a position with a health system in Florida.
In her new role as Chief Operating Officer for Renown South Meadows Medical Center, Lee will work with Jennifer Allen, MSN, director of nursing and the South Meadows leadership medical staff to lead South Meadows to achieve its strategic and operational goals.
Lee is an experienced, dynamic physician executive and operational leader with a record of service growth, clinical quality, patient communication and execution. She is experienced in cross-functional collaboration and nationally recognized for organizational change management. Board certified in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry, Lee has based her clinical practice as a hospitalist on the mind-body connection and a collaborative model with patients and families.
Lee joined Renown Health as the Chair of Medical Specialties in the summer of 2020 to manage hospital-based physician practices. She was promoted to Chief Medical Officer for Renown Regional Medical Center in February 2021 to oversee inpatient clinical operations, including length of stay, hospital capacity, care management functionality, interdisciplinary rounds and medical staff services. Since September of 2021, as Chief Medical Officer for Renown Acute Care, she has been responsible for clinical operations, strategic direction, hospital-based physician management, the medical staff office, regulatory standards, and quality and financial outcomes for Renown Regional Medical Center, Renown South Meadows Medical Center and Renown Rehabilitation Hospital.
Prior to serving at Renown, Lee served as Chief of Hospital Medicine at Carilion Clinic, a 7-facility nonprofit, integrated health system headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia. She is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst (MBA), Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) and Duke University (BA). She is also an active member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and the American Association for Physician Leadership.
