Susan Nestor Levy
Chief Advocacy Officer

Susan Nestor Levy is the Chief Advocacy Officer at Ascension Health. Ms. Levy is the strategy leader for Ascension Health's "Healthcare That Leaves No One Behind" portion of the Call to Action. In her role as strategy leader, Ms. Levy is accountable for the system-wide approach to achieving 100 percent access and 100 percent coverage within community in which Ascension Health operates a Health Ministry. In her role, she manages the system-wide functions of national legislative leadership, advocacy, public policy, and government relations. She is responsible for partnerships with key organizations essential to implement Ascension Health's national legislative, public policy, and advocacy agenda.

Prior to joining Ascension Health, Ms. Levy served as the Executive Director of Policy in the Office of Policy and Representation for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association in Washington, D. C. As Executive Director, she was responsible for formulating the Association's national policy on healthcare legislation. Prior to joining the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Ms. Levy served as the Medicare Part A legislative and policy expert to the United States Senate Committee on Finance. During this tenure, Ms. Levy was one of a small number of health staff to the U.S. Congress during the historic Clinton health reform debate.

Additionally, Ms. Levy worked for Health One Corporation (now Allina) in Minnesota where she held positions of increasing responsibility, including Vice President of Strategic Development and Director of Hospital Planning. Prior to joining Health One, she was Director of Services for the Aged and Director of Planning for Mercy Health Services (now Trinity Health) in Michigan.

Ms. Levy currently serves on the executive committee of the National Advisory Council for the Department of Health Administration in the School of Public Health at Saint Louis University and is a current board member for the Seton Institute, a private international health services organization.

Ms. Levy received a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind., and holds a master's of hospital and health services administration degree from Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO.

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