St. Vincent Health has named Kevin Speer as chief strategy officer. Speer will oversee business development, strategic planning and brand management for the 16-hospital health system. St.Vincent Health is Indiana’s largest healthcare employer, with 16 health ministries serving 45 counties in central Indiana.INDIANAPOLIS, IN – St.Vincent Health has announced that Kevin Speer has been appointed Chief Strategy Officer. Speer’s role as Chief Strategy Officer will involve establishing business development opportunities, strategic planning, network development and brand management for the 16-hospital health system. He will also lead market research, physician relations and corporate communications for St.Vincent Health.
“St.Vincent Health is pleased to have Kevin lead our Strategy Division,” says Vincent C. Caponi, CEO, St.Vincent Health. “Kevin fully understands our mission and truly believes in the core values of St.Vincent Health. He will be influential in strategizing development opportunities, identifying key areas and building relationships with physicians that will best serve and improve the health our patients throughout the state of Indiana and beyond.”
Speer assumes his new role April 10 and report directly to Caponi.
For the past two years, Speer served as Chief Legal Officer for St.Vincent Health where he provided leadership legal counsel on antitrust laws, clinical service and patient care issues and corporate counsel services.
Speer has practiced at Hall, Render, Killian, Health and Lyman for approximately 20 years, and was named partner for his last 10 years of service at the preeminent health law firm.
Speer earned his law degree from Valparaiso University and holds a BA from Purdue University. He is actively involved in the Indiana Bar Association, National Health Lawyers Association and National Institute of Trial Advocacy. Speer is also a member of the Commission on Legislative and Government Affairs for the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Kevin, his wife, Kim Speer, an active member of the St.Vincent Seton Society and St.Vincent Women’s Advisory Board, and two sons, Eric and Cole, ages 11 and 7, reside in Carmel, Ind.
St.Vincent Health is a nonprofit, spiritually-centered health care system, sponsored by Ascension Health of St. Louis, Mo., the nation’s largest Catholic health system. St.Vincent Health is Indiana’s largest healthcare employer, with 16 health ministries serving 45 counties in central Indiana. The St.Vincent Health ministry includes St.Vincent Indianapolis Hospital; St. Joseph Hospital in Kokomo; Saint John’s Health System in Anderson; St.Vincent Carmel Hospital; St.Vincent Women’s Hospital; St.Vincent Pediatric Rehabilitation Center; St.Vincent Clay Hospital in Brazil; St.Vincent Frankfort Hospital; St.Vincent Jennings Hospital in North Vernon; St.Vincent Mercy Hospital in Elwood; St.Vincent New Hope; St.Vincent Randolph Hospital in Winchester; St.Vincent Stress Center; St.Vincent Williamsport Hospital; St.Vincent Children’s Hospital; and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Hospital.
