Beth Rumack

Background

About Beth Rumack

Beth Rumack has been in the healthcare industry for 23+ years with 18+ years of leadership experience: starting her career as a nurse and advancing to a nurse practitioner where being a leader was a must to innovate and invest in people to drive results that leave the most significant impact for our patients, families, and community while always being a fulltime mom of 3 exceptional children of which two of them experienced ICU level care as a preschooler and one as an infant. Beth grew up in St. Louis City and completed her BSN at Deaconess College of Nursing to start her career in Colorado, then onto California, where she trained at the University of California-San Francisco as a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP). Then onto Arizona as an NNP for a private practice Neonatology group before being recruited as the Program Director of Fetal & High-Risk Cardiac Infant Programs, Outpatient Cardiology Supervisor, & Cardiac Nurse Practitioner before returning to St. Louis in 2012 to spend the next nine years of her career with BJC Healthcare System, first as a manager then as their Director of The Heart Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital & Washington University, Cath Lab & Recovery, Mechanical Assist: ECMO & CRRT, Perfusion, Interventional Radiology, Care Coordination along with serving as the Chief Advanced Practice Provider for St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Barnes Jewish Hospital. As Beth’s career path took her back to her hometown, it was clear that so much had remained unchanged in healthcare and racial inequities. Beth credits Amy Hunter, Vice President of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion of Caleres, for entering her life and inspiring her to do more. Beth is committed to doing her work along with leading racial equity work, for example, by developing the Antiracism Coalition Oversight Board for the Cardiac Service Line, executive leadership support of the Black Hair Care Project, and leading a comprehensive DEI strategic development and deployment plan. Beth joined the Ollie Hinkle Heart Foundation (OHHF) in 2018 to serve as a board member. This role allowed Beth to be a thought partner for OHHF’s strategic direction to support putting the “Heart Back in Healthcare” by eliminating barriers to mental health care. Beth Rumack is the COO of the Ollie Hinkle Heart Foundation to serve our local and national community bringing Ollie’s Branch to new markets to eliminate barriers to access to mental health care, impact state and federal policy, and address social determinants of physical and mental health through a collective lens.