St. Lukes - BJC Merger and Future

Julie Quirin, FACHE, serves as president of BJC Health System's West Region, which serves the Kansas City area, northwest Missouri and eastern Kansas and operates as Saint Luke's.  In this role, Julie oversees day-to-day opereations for the region, including its acute care and critical access hospitals, ambulatory clinics and post-acutre care functions, Saint Luke's physician enterprise, hospital throughput, clinical hospital throughput, clinical nursing administration, government affairs team, and philanthropy.

In more than 25 years with Saint Luke's, Julie has served in numerous health systsem leadership roles, including senior vicepresident and chief oeprating officer of Saint Luke's Health System, senior vice president of hospital oeprations, CEO of Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City, senior vice president of continuum of care services, and president and CEO of Saint Luke's South Hospital.

She is past chair and board member of the Missouri Hospital Association and is a past chair of the United Way of Greater Kansas City.