SAN FRANCISCO – Hamila Kownacki, RN, MSHA, and chief operating officer at Sutter’s California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC), has been recognized by the San Francisco Business Times as one of 2020’s Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business. The publication’s annual list celebrates women business leaders in finance, health care, law, real estate, technology and more. Honorees are both passionate leaders in their organizations, as well as their communities.
As COO of CPMC, part of the Sutter Health not-for-profit integrated network of care, Kownacki oversees all operational direction and outpatient services for the medical center’s three campuses in San Francisco: Van Ness, Mission Bernal and Davies.
Most recently, Kownacki led the opening of two modern hospitals where high quality, technology, safety, efficiency, and personal touches are the norm. CPMC’s Van Ness facility, which opened in March 2019, offers advanced patient technology, cancer care, cardiac care, orthopedics and women’s and children’s services. CPMC’s Mission Bernal location, which opened in August 2018, is a neighborhood-based medical center that focuses on emergency, elder care, maternity and orthopedics services.
Kownacki was also chosen for the prestigious Carol Emmott Fellowship, class of 2020. As one of 21 fellows selected nationwide, she is granted the opportunity to build on her leadership capacities in order to help accelerate the advancement of women in executive roles in health care, where currently they are significantly underrepresented.
Kownacki is a board member for San Francisco’s Meals on Wheels and she serves as chairperson of the Donor Network West, an organization dedicated to saving lives through organ and tissue donation for transplantation in Northern California and Nevada. She earned her bachelor’s degree at CSU Northridge, and her master’s degree in health services administration at St. Mary’s in Moraga.
