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President of a niche consulting firm specializing in the business of Women's and Children's Services and strategic product line development and growth. Vicki Lucas, LLC, is the market leader in this space and have served over 250 clients across the world with a > 90% re-booking rate. Our clients include the top delivering hospitals in the U.S. such as Orlando Health/Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Christiana Health, the top academic medical centers in the U.S. such a Johns Hopkins, George Washington and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the top Children's Hospitals in the U.S. such as Texas Children's Hospital, CHOP and National Children's Hospital and the top health systems in the U.S. such as Memorial Hermann, Advocate Health, Advent Health, Christus, HCA, Banner and Sutter Health.

System Executive responsible for the Women's and Children's product line with $800M in annual revenue across a seven hospital system with >18,000 annual deliveries. Provided product line leadership across all MedStar business units including physician relations and employed practices, facilities design and management, strategic planning and business growth, marketing, branding and public relations, quality improvement, hospital operations efficiency improvement, revenue enhancement, cost reduction, contract negotiations with vendors, payers, and providers, and system wide implementation of standardized best of breed IT in Obstetrics.

Women's and Children's Service Line development and management responsibilities including marketing, branding, advertising, public relations, community outreach, physician growth strategies, sub-specialty service expansion, revenue enhancement, cost reductions, and contract negotiations. Line operations responsibility for Memorial Hospital Southwest with >5,000 annual deliveries, a Level III NICU, operating budget of > $11M and > 300 employees. Staff responsibilities for the development of the Women's and Children's Service Line development across the system and standardization of supplies, equipment and quality improvement.

Director of the Women's Health Graduate Program and funded for > $4M in program grants from U.S. HHS Division of Nursing. Started the first nurse practitioner program at UT and was coordinator of role development in the graduate program. Responsible for the faculty and teaching responsibilities within the Division serving the under graduate and graduate program and expansion graduate program in the Rio Grande Valley. Assistant to the Dean for special projects including the UT Committee on the Status of Women, budget preparation and other administrative work such as the federal nurse traineeship grant and fund and friend raising for the school.