Women In Business - Primary Children’s Hospital & Pediatric Healthcare: An Insiders Perspective from CEO, Katy Welkie

Primary Children’s Hospital & Pediatric Healthcare: An Insiders Perspective from CEO, Katy Welkie 
Join us for an exciting conversation with CEO, Katy Welkie as she talks about her career path, the growth of Primary Children’s, and what drives her to accomplish great things within our community.
About Our Speaker:

Katy Welkie

CEO, Primary Children’s Hospital; Vice President of Children’s Health, Intermountain Healthcare
Katy Welkie, RN, MBA is the Chief Executive Officer of Primary Children’s Hospital and Vice President of Children’s Health for Intermountain Healthcare. She received her MBA with an emphasis in Health Care Administration from Regis University and her bachelor’s in nursing from the University of Utah.
Katy is particularly interested in quality and patient safety, receiving the Excellence in Nursing Leadership Award from the Utah Organization of Nurse Leaders in 2008 and a previous recipient of the Osler’s Cloak for Excellence in Caring and Curing. Katy also received the Utah Hospital Association’s Distinguished Hospital Executive award in 2015.
Katy was named to the first-ever Board of Directors for Children’s Hospitals’ Solutions for Patient Safety group whose goal is to help guide the national effort to eliminate serious harm in all children’s hospitals. Katy is a member of the Children’s Hospital Association Board of Trustees and serves as Chair of the Quality and Safety Committee. She also serves as a member of the Children’s Center Board and on the
Advisory Board for Ronald McDonald House Charities. Katy spent many years as a nurse in the Primary Children’s Pediatric ICU, eventually becoming a charge nurse, nursing director, chief nursing officer, then COO, and finally CEO in 2012. Her leadership experience at Primary Children’s and collaboration with children’s hospitals across the nation allows Katy the unique position to advance quality measures for children across the nation. She is particularly motivated in her career by the hospital’s philosophy, ‘The Child First and Always’ and by Primary Children’s Zero Harm initiative. Katy lives in Salt Lake City and is an avid hiker, camper, and traveler.