Anna Youngerman

Anna is a healthcare executive with a diverse professional background spanning public affairs, strategic communications, public policy, and health system leadership. She has extensive experience leading value-based care initiatives and clinically integrated networks, with a consistent focus on driving progress and purpose throughout her 25-year career.

As Chief Strategy & Enablement Officer, Anna oversees the company’s strategic direction, growth initiatives, corporate positioning, and cultural enhancements that facilitate performance. During her tenure with Navvis, Anna led the development of the company’s five-year strategic plan that provides a design for performance commitment and growth trajectory. She successfully oversaw the market-based launch of Navvis’ patient capacity and throughput program in Minnesota, which delivered exponential length of stay improvement for a $5 billion health system, as well as a comprehensive rollout of Surround Care Academy.

Prior to joining Navvis, Anna served in several leadership roles over 10 years with Children’s Minnesota, a free-standing, independent children’s health system. She led the organization’s public policy advocacy and community engagement department, developing a comprehensive social determinants of health screening and resource delivery program. Anna then took on the dual role of VP, Value and Clinical Excellence and President of the Children’s Health Network, a pediatric clinically integrated network. Before that, Anna was a senior leader with Minneapolis-based Himle Horner, a public affairs and strategic communications agency, where she led several healthcare client initiatives.

Anna has a passion for community work and has served on various non-profit boards of directors over the past 15 years, including YWCA Minneapolis, Washburn Center for Children, and the Native American Community Clinic. In 2019, she was recognized as a Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal “Women in Leadership” award recipient. Anna earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Lake Forest College.