TAMMY WALLACE
Chief Financial Officer
UCLA Health
Tammy Wallace, CPA, serves as CFO of the UCLA Health System, one of the nation’s premier comprehensive academic health systems and a cornerstone of healthcare delivery and innovation in Greater Los Angeles and nationally. In this role, she provides enterprise-wide strategic and financial leadership for a $8.5 billion health system encompassing hospitals, clinics, physician enterprises, managed care, and joint ventures. Her scope of responsibility includes oversight of the revenue cycle, accounting and audit, financial planning and decision support, supply chain, mergers and acquisitions, and contracting. She plays a central role in evaluating internal and external market opportunities, driving enterprise cost-savings initiatives, supporting strategic growth, and advancing the adoption of innovative financial and operational technologies.
Under Wallace’s leadership, UCLA Health has strengthened its financial performance while continuing to invest aggressively in growth, access, and clinical excellence. She has led long range financial planning that aligns capital deployment and margin targets with enterprise growth and market positioning – which will enable more than $10 billion in capital investment over the next 10 years while maintaining historic industry leading liquidity and strong operating margins.
Her work supports a health system that remains a leading recipient of NIH research funding.
Wallace has been instrumental in strengthening the organization’s fiscal stability and operational performance. She established the Sustaining Excellence Transformation
(SET) model, a comprehensive approach that improved margins across labor and operations, pharmacy growth, implant and supply standardization, length of stay, and other revenue enhancement initiatives. Collectively, these efforts have generated annual margin improvements ranging from $40 million to over $100 million, or incremental margins ranging from 1-2%.
