Ms. Bruhn serves as executive vice president and CFO of Phoenix Children’s, one of the top-ranked pediatric health systems in the Southwest, with $1.83 billion in annual revenue, two hospitals with a third on the way, four pediatric specialty and urgent care centers, 12 community pediatric practices, 20 outpatient clinics, two ambulatory surgery centers, seven community-service outpatient clinics, and more than 950 employed providers and specialists across more than 75 subspecialties. She focuses on ensuring financial stability, optimizing resources and aligning financial strategy with the system’s mission, while modernizing investment and treasury practices and leading an interdepartmental command center to advance payer negotiations. Since Ms. Bruhn joined, the system opened Phoenix Children’s Hospital—Arrowhead Campus, a 175,000-square-foot hospital serving the West Valley, and a 44,000-square-foot neonatal intensive care unit at its Thomas Campus, with construction continuing at Phoenix Children’s Hospital—East Valley. In the past two years the system also added dozens of physicians and specialists and launched a research institute with more than 700 active studies, 640 research investigators and 100 research staff. As the only pediatric health system in Arizona, it has navigated several payer disputes under her negotiation, and she has spoken nationally on payer contract negotiations. Before joining Phoenix Children’s, Ms. Bruhn spent nearly 24 years at Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health, including as executive vice president, CFO and treasurer, and earlier spent nearly a decade in public accounting. She is a certified public accountant, and a member of both the Healthcare Financial Management Association and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
