Gretchen Guess Email & Phone Number

Anchorage, Alaska, United States

Gretchen Guess (she/her) is the President and CEO of Rasmuson Foundation, a family foundation dedicated to empowering Alaskans to help each other. She leads the 70-year-old foundation in its vision of an Alaska where people, cultures, and communities thrive. The Foundation pays out over $20M in grants annually with an asset level of over $700M.

Spokane, Washington, United States

Accountable hospital executive for the emergency rooms (adult and pediatric), food service, patient transport, transfer center, environmental services, linen/laundry, facilities, lab, imaging, patient access, and security. Sacred Heart Hospital has over 600 beds serving the Inland Northwest community and region with children's and adult's acute care, behavioral health, trauma, and transplant. Position eliminated through group Reduction in Force• Reduce operational cost by ~$2M through small adjustments• Restructured security services, increasing coverage by 40 percent with same personnel• Ensured Joint Commission Compliance with Clinical Contracting post survey• Executive sponsor of Green Team, New Employee Orientation, Employee Safety, and Workplace Violence• Named Compliance and Privacy Champion (Providence) and Business Champion (County Commuter Reduction)

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Led Jacksonville market as General Manager to fulfill our mission to provide seniors with affordable, VIP care that delivers better health and our vision to be America's leadership primary care provider, transforming care of the neediest populations.After a reorganization where the General Manager job was eliminated, I was asked to run in the short run one of our value-based centers here in the Jacksonville market. Full risk, value-based clinic serving the neediest medicare advantage population.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

Led 100+ hospitalist physician group with over $20M in revenue. Responsible for hospitalist operations/schedules, physician recruitment/compensation/contracts, financial performance and metric improvement. Worked in partnership with four medical directors.Snapshot:-Improved quality metrics in Sepsis, HAI, Readmissions, & 24 hr. Discharge Summaries.-Improved charge entry, billing time, and administrative overhead.-Created and implemented new compensation structure to focus on value-based care.-Implemented revenue cycle and budget improvements resolving previous AR issues.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

Led 24 primary care clinics with 70 providers and, 160 non-provider employees with over $20M in revenue. Responsible for clinic operations, financial performance and metric improvement. Worked in partnership with a medical director and physician governance.Snapshot:-Improved eight quality metrics including BMI screening, mammograms, & Diabetes KPI.-Improved mammogram screening from 29 to 65 percent in 10 months.-95%of clinics had net promoter score of 70 %; +40% of clinics at the 95th percentile.-Led physician-enterprise wide efforts; standardized pay to market for non-provider staff.

Elected to the school board and became president the same month. Served as president for one year, and chair of Budget Committee for one year. District has over $800M budget and 50,000 students with over 100 languages spoken in the homes. Responsible for leading board and board meetings, supervision of superintendent, and serving as a spokesperson.Snapshot:-Led the District’s first-ever core values and strategic planning process-Led the District's first-ever KPI creation, -Led the District's first-ever long-range financial plan creation-Led superintendent search

Progressively promoted through strategic and business planning roles. Responsible for service line strategic planning and scorecards, joint ventures, mergers/acquisitions, regulation review, and executing strategic initiatives.Snapshot:-Led acquisition of four-city imaging center to three different affiliates company -Led merger of 2 medical transport companies into a new joint venture.-Obtained CON and internal approval for $250M worth of projects including surgery expansion, mother-baby tower, NICU expansion, long-term care green houses-Oversaw joint ventures, including revising definitive agreements, in the areas of imaging, ambulatory surgery centers, medical transport, and long-term acute care hospital

Anchorage, Ak

Served as one of 20 Senators in the state and the youngest woman to ever attain the seat, winning in a swing district. Elected to manage Northeast Anchorage with oversight of 3 staff members.Snapshot:-Served on Judiciary, Health Education and Social Services, and State Affairs Committees-Member of Workers Compensation Task Force-Legislation: Information Privacy; Violent Crimes; Gas Pipeline; Sexual Assault-Recognized for astute leadership and ability to bridge gaps between stakeholders.

Anchorage, Ak

Provided analytical support to executive, finance, legal and marketing departments through analyzing the economy, determining profitability, creating demand and pricing studies, evaluating promotions, analyzing monthly statistics, and developing data sources, systems and ad hoc research. Promoted from Business Analyst to Senior Economic Analyst.

Elected to represent three communities in Anchorage, serving as one of forty House members in the state.Snapshot:-Served on Community Regional Affairs, Education, and Oil & Gas Committees.-Member of Bi-partisan fiscal policy caucus.-Legislation: Education Finance (passed); Illegal Drug Lab Clean-Up (passed).-State Finances; Nuisance Properties (passed) ; High School Qualifying Exam (passed).

Juneau And Anchorage, Ak

Performed special projects for the Commissioner and Governor including being the federal liaison. Took six month leave to be Treasurer of the Governor's re-election campaign.

Santa Monica, Ca

Published research in education. Worked on military housing and parent involvement projects.

Arlington, Va

Worked on military health care projects and published articles on technology uses in healthcare. Promoted to Member from Associate Member.

Ms, Public Policy Analysis, Magna Cum Laude

Ba, Economics