Stephanie Conners is president and CEO of BayCare Health System. An experienced health care leader, she has built a reputation as an inspiring leader and collaborator committed to health care delivery with the highest standards of clinical excellence, compassion, safety, service, and engagement. That unique combination derives from a career that began at the bedside as a nurse (she still maintains her nursing license) and then moved into patient services before becoming a chief nursing officer. She later added operations to her portfolio and led several high-quality health care systems as the chief operating officer for both not-for-profit and for-profit entities in Pennsylvania and New J