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Lourdes Boue

Chief Executive Officer, West Kendall Baptist Hospital

Lourdes Boue is Chief Executive Officer of West Kendall Baptist Hospital.

Boue previously served as Vice President of Operations for the hospital, and was part of the team that opened West Kendall Baptist Hospital, Miami-Dade County’s first new hospital in more than 35 years.

As Vice President of Operations for West Kendall Baptist Hospital, Lourdes was responsible for the hospital’s general operations, including the planning, implementation and ongoing evaluation of services offered at the hospital. Boue serves as the growth champion for West Kendall Baptist Hospital, working closely with Baptist Health Strategic Planning and Construction Management to plan for the four-story clinical expansion targeted to begin in 2020 to meet the healthcare needs of the growing West Kendall community. She also was instrumental in driving the surgical services expansion at the hospital just four years after the hospital’s opening.

She has more than three decades of experience as a healthcare executive in South Florida. Previous positions include Vice President of Baptist Outpatient Services and Corporate Director of Strategic Planning and Business Development for Baptist Health South Florida. Her focus areas included resource allocation, long-range planning, leadership development, strategic marketing, quality and patient-satisfaction initiatives. Prior to joining Baptist Health, she was the CFO for the Miami Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged and audit/consulting manager for an international accounting firm.

Active in our community, Boue is past Chairman of the Board for the Epilepsy Foundation of Florida, past Chairman of the State of Florida Board of Accountancy Probable Cause Panel and past co-chairman and member of the Agency Audit Committee for United Way of Miami-Dade. She currently serves as a mentor for Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Miami.

Boue is a graduate from Florida International University with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration, and from the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship at Nova Southeastern University with a Master of Science degree in Leadership