Ms. Kunkel serves as CFO for LCMC Health and its nine-hospital system, leading the finance and accounting departments and serving as a financial and strategic business advisor to the system CEO and broader leadership team. For the bulk of her career she held positions with Sanford Health in Sioux Falls, S.D., a system with more than $6 billion in revenue. As corporate CFO of Sanford Health, Ms. Kunkel led the transformation of the finance organization alongside a team of more than 3,000 finance, accounting, revenue cycle and analytics professionals. She was responsible for overseeing financial operations and integrating the system’s hospitals and clinics into the broader operating company. She also oversaw operational and financial aspects of the $1 billion Sanford Health Plan, which served commercial and individual products including multistate exchange products, Medicare supplemental and Medicaid expansion lines of business. Immediately before joining LCMC Health, Ms. Kunkel led financial affairs at the University of South Dakota, where she developed strategic growth opportunities, including the expansion and enhancement of healthcare-related objectives.
