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Kathy Bereston

Vice President of Revenue Cycle Performance Improvement and Employed Clinical Network

Ascension

St. Louis, MO

Ms. Bereston has overseen and strategically led Ascension’s employed clinical network revenue cycle activities and resources across the organization since July 2024, providing strategic input on revenue cycle optimization across functions. Ms. Bereston is a transformational leader with more than 20 years of healthcare management experience, recognized for identifying opportunities to improve operational excellence, redesigning processes and infrastructure and mobilizing people to execute and sustain change. She holds a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and brings significant expertise across strategic planning, productivity and performance management, budgeting and cost reduction, patient-centric design and software implementation. Her career is marked by measurable results in standardizing operations processes, improving patient satisfaction scores and building cultures of trust, continuous improvement and commitment to problem-solving. Ms. Bereston also brings deep knowledge of regulation and compliance spanning human resources, revenue cycle and IT.

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