Ms. Severe oversees all daily operations of Jackson North Medical Center, a 382-bed acute care hospital affiliated with Miami-based Jackson Health System. Her responsibilities include strategic leadership, operational oversight, financial stewardship, workforce development and ensuring alignment with the broader mission of the system. After joining the system in 2014, she rose to become COO of Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital and ultimately CEO of Jackson North Medical Center. As COO of the system’s flagship facility, she provided administrative oversight for the $100 million construction of the UHealth Jackson Critical Care Pavilion, which added 79 ICU beds. During the Covid-19 pandemic, she served as the executive lead for laboratory operations, helping design and manage a testing infrastructure that delivered nearly 200,000 tests to patients, employees and physicians. Earlier in her career, Ms. Severe directed the early intervention program at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami. She now serves as an adjunct professor at Florida International University.
