Jessie Neitzer

Executive Strategic Advisor

Ovation Healthcare

Jessie is a skilled healthcare executive with 15 years of hospital executive leadership. Jessie has held various leadership roles, from Human Resources, Senior Director of Quality, Patient-Safety and Risk Management, Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, and Chief Operating Officer. As an Executive Strategic Advisor for Ovation Healthcare, Jessie provides executive-level oversight of key client relationships—providing strategic, operational, financial, and governance-related services. Leaning on her experience in hospitals and health systems and utilizing her background as a life coach, she often provides Executives with operational tools and coaches on people skills or “soft skills” that support the achievement of operational tactics.

Jessie’s passion is organizational and leadership development. She has a knack for engaging stakeholders from the board, medical staff, management, support staff, and everyone in between to ensure organizational success.

Areas of Expertise

  • Strategic planning and goal alignment
  • Contract initiation, management, and termination
  • Workflow optimization and process improvement
  • Community outreach and network building
  • Risk mitigation and claims management
  • Incident investigation and resolution
  • Just culture and high-reliability implementation
  • Project management and concept/vision execution
  • Leadership and communication
  • Human resources and employee relations
  • Organizational engagement
  • Experienced with external agency survey/investigation response and follow-up
  • Facilitated recruitment of staff and providers

Previous Experience

  • Independent Consultant
    Continuum Healthcare Advisors (Merger/ Acquisition, Executive Leadership, Quality Improvement Consulting to facilities in immediate jeopardy with payors and state agencies, Leadership Development and Education, Healthcare Policy and Advocacy)
  • Chief Operating Officer
    Montrose Regional Health
  • Chief Strategy Officer
    Montrose Regional Health
  • Senior Director of Quality and Compliance
    Montrose Regional Health
  • Director of Quality and Compliance
    Southwest Health System
  • Human Resources
    Southwest Health System

Education

  • MBA-Healthcare Administration Adams State University

Certifications

  • Certified in Workplace Accountability through Outcome Ingenuity
  • Certified Life Coach, Intrinsic Coaching