Sara helps healthcare organizations improve workforce performance, optimize compensation and benefits, and redesign operations to strengthen access, productivity, and financial sustainability.
About Sara
Sara provides workforce strategy, compensation, and operational improvement expertise to hospitals, healthcare systems, and academic medical centers. She works with leadership teams to design and implement solutions that improve workforce performance, optimize total rewards, and support evolving care delivery models.
With more than a decade of experience, Sara has led initiatives across faculty and provider compensation, employee benefits, workforce staffing, and ambulatory operations. Her work focuses on aligning compensation structures, staffing models, and operational processes with organizational goals while addressing ongoing changes in healthcare economics. She brings practical experience in clinic operations, throughput improvement, and workforce optimization, helping organizations improve access, productivity, and financial outcomes.
Throughout her career, Sara has:
- Served in interim HR leadership roles for health systems, advising executive teams on workforce strategy, compensation, and organizational priorities.
- Directed faculty and provider compensation assessments and implemented updated compensation models at academic medical centers.
- Led health and welfare benefits redesign initiatives, including plan design, employee contributions, retirement, and life insurance programs.
- Directed staff compensation assessments, including base pay and premium pay structures, for large health systems and academic medical centers.
- Led ambulatory throughput and access initiatives that improved clinic efficiency, patient access, and workforce productivity.
Prior to joining Huron, Sara served as a Pharmacy Buyer at Jackson County Memorial Hospital, where she managed pharmaceutical purchasing, oversaw the 340B program, and supported contract management and employee pharmacy benefits. In this role, she focused on cost optimization while maintaining compliance with federal regulations.
Sarah earned a master’s degree in Health Administration from Seton Hall University and a bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College.
Sara is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), a Director and President of Krossfire Field Hockey Club, and a volunteer for Oklahoma Foster for German Shorthaired Pointer Rescue New England (GSPRNE).