Ms. Tyler provides strategic financial leadership for NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan, overseeing fiscal operations, revenue cycle optimization, budget development, and multilevel funding strategies that strengthen the hospital’s mission of equitable, community-centered care. She has distinguished herself as one of the very few Black female CFOs in major U.S. organizations. Ms. Tyler brings a career-long commitment to public service shaped by early experience as a teacher and extensive leadership roles across New York City government and NYC Health + Hospitals. Ms. Tyler secured $3 million for biomedical equipment replacements and $1.6 million for lab staffing to support a 338-bed facility that serves more than 350,000 clinic patients and 50,000 emergency department visitors annually. She implemented a financial counseling workflow that enrolled over 600 patients in MetroPlusHealth within two months, generating $360,000 in savings with projected annualized gains of up to $3 million. Ms. Tyler also developed a new screening tool to improve triage efficiency, reducing unnecessary referrals and decreasing referral-to-appointment turnaround time by 10% in the first month. She further eliminated temporary staffing costs for non-clinical and allied health roles, about $1 million annually, achieving net savings of $200,000 while strengthening operational stability.
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Becker's Recognition
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Women Hospital and Health System CFOs to Know
Female CFOs of hospitals and health systems skillfully handle strategic financial planning, annual budgets, investments and more.
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