Ms. Hayes-Chandler is responsible for managing all regional issues related to hospital and medical group operations, supervising legal staff, overseeing regional mergers and acquisitions, and managing the use of external legal counsel. In addition to her regional responsibilities, she is responsible for a number of SSM Health system-level responsibilities including but not limited to managing attorney-client privileged internal audits and serving as lead counsel for all fraud and abuse matters systemwide. She began her career with SSM Health in 2001, stepping into the role of incident command lead for the Oklahoma region in 2020 during the pandemic.
