Tammy Saunaitis | UMMS | Maryland Daily Record

Following a nationwide search, the College of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) has named Tammy Saunaitis, FAHCE, CPC, because the system’s new chief human sources officer, efficient Aug. 1.  Saunaitis brings to UMMS vital expertise in working with various leaders to combine a posh human sources division right into a single, customer-focused, built-in heart of excellence.

Saunaitis involves UMMS from SCL Well being, the place she served as Chief Human Assets Officer from 2016 to 2022, and held quite a few high-level management roles over the previous eight years. In April, Intermountain Healthcare accomplished a merger with SCL Well being, and since that point Saunaitis has served as senior vice chairman, human useful resource technique and HR Operations. As with UMMS, SCL Well being was a nonprofit well being care group; its community included eight hospitals and greater than 150 doctor clinics in Colorado and Montana.

Previous to her time at SCL Well being, Saunaitis labored in a wide range of well being programs, together with Meriter Well being Providers (now UnityPoint-Meriter), Ascension Well being and Northwestern Memorial Hospital. She holds a Grasp’s of Enterprise Administration from Lewis College in Romeoville, Illinois and a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from the College of Illinois at Chicago.