Ms. Puchtler serves as senior vice president and CFO for Penn Medicine’s University of Pennsylvania Health System, providing executive leadership for revenue cycle, corporate finance, financial operations and budgeting, billing compliance, and supply chain and procurement. She oversees financial performance and capital planning for a multistate academic health system that includes seven hospitals, 13 multispecialty centers and hundreds of outpatient sites across three states. Previously, Ms. Puchtler was CFO of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where she managed finances for a 1,083-bed academic medical campus delivering more than 2.2 million outpatient visits annually. Since joining Penn Medicine in 2015 as vice president for financial operations and budgeting, she has played a key role in major initiatives such as planning for the Clifton Center for Medical Breakthroughs, leading revenue and expense planning for expanded inpatient, procedural and emergency department capacity. Prior to joining the system, she held leadership roles at Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health and Newtown Square, Pa.-based Catholic Health East.
