As president of BayCare’s St. Joseph’s Hospital-North, Ms. Dodds provides executive leadership across all aspects of hospital operations, clinical quality, patient experience, physician engagement, workforce culture and financial performance. She has built her career at Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare Health System over the last 22 years, progressing from a nursing assistant to bedside nurse to hospital president. Ms. Dodds served as hospital lead for a $76 million vertical expansion project that doubled the hospital’s capacity and added new services, positioning St. Joseph’s Hospital-North to exceed pre-pandemic volumes. Under her leadership, the hospital achieved a Leapfrog safety grade of “A,” the group’s highest rating, and earned recognition as a Fortune and IBM Watson “Top 100 Hospital” for multiple years. She established and chaired the hospital’s ethics consult team, and led efforts resulting in initial and ongoing DNV accreditation for the primary stroke program, while co-leading the system’s anesthesia collaborative to create a systemwide anesthesia consent. Ms. Dodds was named to the Tampa Bay Business Journal‘s “40 Under 40” list in 2021 and was appointed president in 2023 after serving as interim president.
