Ms. Bayless’s current position as CEO of Luminis Health is supported by 30 years of experience in management and leadership roles spanning strategic planning, health system operations, community health and outreach, medical staff relations and physician practice management, talent management and business development. She is passionate about Vision 2030, the health system’s strategic plan, which focuses on overall quality performance, workforce development, and financial resiliency while improving access, advancing health equity and meeting community needs. Her work has laid a strategic framework for Luminis to become a national model for justice, equity, diversity and inclusion, backed by the system’s health equity and anti-racism task force. She began her career at Luminis in 2006 as vice president of clinical and support services. She became COO in 2006, then president and COO in 2009. She has been serving as CEO since her promotion in 2011.
