Senior Vice President Planning and Performance Optimization
Henry Ford Health System

Julia Swanson is the senior vice president planning and performance optimization at Henry Ford Health. In this role she reports to the chief strategy officer and provides overall senior leadership and direction for transformation initiatives and the development and alignment of strategic and operational plans within the health system resulting in the long-term growth and viability of the organization. She advises on and leads the development of organization wide plans and execution approaches while ensuring efforts are aligned and integrated. Prior to this, Julia held the role of vice president for system clinical operations, in support to the system COO, president healthcare operations and the chief clinical officer. She has organizational responsibility for driving operational plan development; performance goal development, establishing and monitoring initiatives; and leadership systems. She simultaneously leads multiple cross functional complex System wide initiatives. Her team recently led the Integration Management Office for the recent integration of Ascension Health southeast Michigan entities into Henry Ford Health.