Ms. Ference is CFO for AHN Neighborhood Hospitals, providing strategic and operational leadership for nursing, emergency department and inpatient services, and a broad portfolio of clinical support specialties that include radiology, laboratory, respiratory therapy and rehabilitation services across five neighborhood hospital locations. She leads a team of 283 staff and works closely with the hospital board, directors, clinical teams and corporate leaders to optimize patient flow, staffing and scheduling, budgeting, vendor contracting, and both short- and long-range operational planning. She also leads key governance and compliance work, including steering committees, pharmacy and therapeutics, and policy development aligned to Department of Health, DNV and CMS requirements. Ms. Ference stands out as a hands-on, bedside-visible executive who maintains clinical readiness and routinely rounds with teams in order to bridge the boardroom and the bedside. She has been a catalyst for innovation in small-format hospital care models, helping advance variable acuity inpatient care, virtual nursing, virtual telemetry and hospitalist tele-resources. Under her leadership, AHN Neighborhood Hospitals became an early adopter of fixed real-time audiovisual telemedicine for all patients.
