Kevin Barr is a health system executive experienced in operations, strategy, mergers and acquisitions, ambulatory care, medical office building development, physician partnerships, joint ventures, facility startups, and board formation.
He is known for his ability to develop and translate strategies into company growth and operational performance. With a strong background in operations, consulting, and leadership development, he is able to lead teams and boards to consistent and sustainable performance results.
He served as Senior Vice President for a $3.5 billion, 24,000 employee Catholic health system where responsibilities included strategic finance, capital projects, and integration activities contributing to system-wide growth and performance. He served as an operating executive for various hospital functions, ambulatory care facilities, and medical groups.
He has experience in planning, developing, constructing, and managing facilities offering diagnostic testing, outpatient imaging, wound care (including HBO therapy), radiation therapy, emergency care (hospital and free-standing), urgent care, free-standing ambulatory surgery, clinical laboratory testing, sleep medicine, assisted living care, and retail pharmacy.
EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS
Master of Business Administration (Finance)
Virginia Commonwealth University
Bachelor of Health Care Management/Administration
Medical College of Virginia
Leadership Coaching Program
Georgetown University – Institute for Transformational Leadership
Executive Integral Leadership Program
University of Notre Dame – Mendoza College of Business
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Served as CFO for a healthcare system with acute, rehab, occupational health, outpatient, urgent/emergency, home care, hospice, senior living, and physician practice operations
Advised partners, management leaders, and governing boards of medical practice groups, healthcare systems, and hospitals regarding operations, strategy, and equity partnerships
Served as CEO for a statewide ambulatory care division
Served as executive director for medical group operations for a hospital-based system
Served as executive vice president for a taxable for-profit division within a regional health system
Advised an operational optimization team evaluating a merger plan for two multi-hospital systems
Prepared an operations transition plan for a hospital returning to independent operating control
Led preparation/presentation of various Certificate of Public Need (COPN) projects for hospitals and physician groups (e.g., MRI, CT, radiation therapy, ASC, cardiac surgery, et al.)
Planned, led construction of, and managed various medical practice offices, free-standing emergency centers, urgent care centers, and free-standing ASCs
Organized, established, and operated taxable for-profit subsidiaries within a regional health system
Organized, built, and managed a multispecialty medical group of physicians and advance practice clinicians
Professionals are independent contractors and available on a contract basis.