Laurie Cowan Phillips

Laurie is a senior executive with 35 years of experience in the healthcare industry. She has strong skills in strategic planning and marketing, financial analysis and planning, and project management and facilities development. Laurie has an outstanding track record in business development, negotiation, relationship management and team building.

Laurie served as Vice President of Capital Planning and Management at Boston Children’s Hospital between 2001-2004. She led the institution through the planning and construction of a clinical tower and biomedical research building (projects exceeding $230 million) and additional capital projects including the acquisition of several buildings in the Longwood Medical Area. She also guided the institution through its first 5-year capital budget planning process as well as a long-term facilities master plan.

In an earlier position at Children’s, as Vice President of Strategic Planning and Marketing, she led the institution through planning processes for ambulatory services and network development, created business plans for key strategic services and participated in joint hospital-physician managed care strategies and contract negotiations. She also negotiated agreements for clinical services between Children’s and several community hospitals.

Prior to Children’s, Laurie spent 15 years at Lowell General Hospital as Senior Vice President of Corporate Services. During those years, she provided leadership in the areas of strategic planning and marketing, business and network development, public affairs, physician relations and managed care contracting. Some of the many accomplishments include merger with the local visiting nurse association, development of two medical office buildings and an off-site ambulatory surgery center, affiliations with several leading academic medical centers for services at Lowell General and development and implementation of many service specific business plans.

Her earlier work includes 5 years with a national health care consulting firm and several years with the regulatory division of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

Ms. Cowan Phillips holds a BA and MBA from Boston University. She has served on multiple not-for-profit boards including the Board, Governance Committee and Investment Committee of Tufts Health Plan; Co-chair of the Leadership Council, a member of the Board (ex officio) and a member of the Development Committee of the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, an organization dedicated to strengthening the relationship between patients and caregivers. She is currently a Board member of Moorings Park CCRC in Naples, FL. Laurie served as Board member and Chair of Planned Parenthood of Collier County and as Board Chair of Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida (PPSWCF). She remains on the PPSWCF Board . Laurie is a graduate of Greater Naples Leadership Class XVI.

Since moving to Naples in 2010, Laurie and her husband Ric Phillips have become deeply involved in the Naples and Collier County communities and are supporters of many local charitable organizations.