Ms. Touse leads the legal strategy for BayCare Health System, guiding a team that supports more than 33,000 team members and ensuring compliance across one of West Central Florida’s largest nonprofit academic health systems. Rising through the organization since 2011 to become the youngest member of the system’s CEO cabinet, she has played a central role in major legal and strategic milestones. In the past year, she led the replacement of a 50-year joint operating agreement with a unified corporate structure, bringing all system hospitals and services under one legal entity to ensure long-term stability. Ms. Touse also oversaw the integration of providers from major physician groups, the transition of clinics into hospital-based departments and the negotiation of a strategic collaboration with Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine. Additionally, she directed the legal acquisition of a 36-acre office park in Tampa, Fla., soon to become the BayCare Academic Health and Research Corridor, supporting academic growth and research partnerships.
