Fractional Leadership · Advisory · Consulting · Board Service
MSN, BSN, RN · Consulting LLC
Senior healthcare executive offering fractional leadership, advisory, consulting, and board service to startups, digital health ventures, and healthcare organizations—bringing VP and CCO-level depth wherever it's needed.
Translating clinical strategy into scalable, operationally sound programs—from concept to profitability.
About
Faith Gutierrez is a senior healthcare operations leader with 11 years of progressive leadership and deep experience scaling clinical operations across digital health, enterprise, public health, and traditional health systems. With an MSN and extensive direct patient care experience across multiple clinical settings, Faith brings both clinical credibility and executive acumen to every engagement.
Over the course of her career, Faith has managed 500+ employees and led clinical operations across an exceptionally broad range of service lines: family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, women's health, specialty care, orthopedics, radiology, physical therapy, preventative health, telehealth, and COVID operations.
Most recently as VP of Clinical & Ambulatory Operations at Commons Clinic and Head of Medical Operations at Color Health, Faith has driven AI-enabled clinical platform design, multisite operational strategy, and the successful commercialization of new health offerings from concept through profitability.
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Faith works across four engagement models—fractional leadership, advisory, consulting, and board service—bringing VP and CCO-level clinical operations expertise to healthtech, startups, traditional healthcare, telehealth, direct-to-consumer, and surgery centers.
VP or Chief Clinical Officer-level engagement across four models: fractional leadership for ongoing operational depth, advisory for strategic guidance, consulting for targeted projects, and board service for organizations seeking an experienced clinical executive voice at the governance level.
End-to-end clinical design, implementation, and execution of new programs—from direct-to-consumer health offerings and telehealth services to multispecialty clinic programs and surgical service lines. Concept through commercialization.
Experienced in clinic design, construction, and operationalization—from ground-up buildouts to ambulatory surgery center integration. Includes scope-of-care decisions, facility planning, staffing models, and go-live execution.
Clinical requirements definition, governance, and quality controls for AI-enabled tools and EMR integrations. Experienced in launching and scaling telehealth programs and healthtech platforms from the clinical side of the product.
Building Quality functions, authoring medical guidelines, policies, and procedures, creating custom quality metrics and KPI frameworks, and preparing organizations for Medicare and Medi-Cal survey requirements. Proven 100% pass rate and zero findings across all departments managed.
Developing high-performing leaders and teams through executive coaching, structured leadership development programs, and continuous improvement disciplines. Trusted by executives and frontline managers alike to build capability and operational maturity.
Areas of Expertise
From ground-up clinic construction to nationwide healthtech platforms, Faith brings hands-on operational fluency across every major setting in modern healthcare delivery.
Discuss Your Needs ↗Clinical strategy and operational buildout across the full startup lifecycle—Series A through Series F—from founding clinical infrastructure through late-stage scale.
Clinical leadership across family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, women's health, specialty care, orthopedics, radiology, physical therapy, preventative health, and COVID operations.
National telehealth program design, enterprise and public health client delivery, and clinical workflow standardization across all 50 states.
Clinical design and launch of DTC health products and offerings—care model development, consumer experience, and operational execution.
Ambulatory surgery center integration, scope-of-care planning, and operational oversight of procedural and ancillary service lines.
Ground-up clinic design, facility buildout, and operationalization—from construction planning through go-live and ongoing operations.
Proprietary AI platform design integrated with EMR, ambient voice scribe, and provider workflow optimization at scale.
Deep knowledge of Medicare and Medi-Cal survey guidelines, California state requirements, and regulatory survey readiness—with a record of 100% pass rates and zero findings across all departments managed.
Experienced author of medical guidelines, clinical policies, and standard operating procedures—creating the documentation infrastructure that enables consistent, compliant, and scalable care delivery.
Lean management, process improvement, and custom quality metrics creation—designing KPI frameworks, performance dashboards, and operational standards that drive measurable outcomes.
Experienced in developing leaders at all levels—from frontline managers to senior executives—through coaching, mentorship, structured development programs, and team capability building.
Experience
From Kaiser Permanente to Series A through Series F startups, Faith has led clinical operations across traditional health systems, digital health, healthtech, telehealth, surgery centers, and direct-to-consumer health—managing 500+ employees and driving results across every major care setting.
Who I Work With
Faith has worked across nearly every corner of healthcare—from venture-backed startups to large integrated health systems. If you're building, launching, or scaling something clinical, this is the right partnership.
Series A through Series F healthtech companies and startups—Faith has worked across the full startup growth journey and knows what clinical operations needs to look like at every stage of scale.
Telehealth platforms, AI-enabled clinical tools, and direct-to-consumer health brands that need clinical operations expertise embedded alongside product and engineering.
Ambulatory clinics, multispecialty practices, and integrated health systems navigating growth, operational transformation, or new service line development.
Ambulatory surgery centers and clinic operators building or expanding facilities—from design and construction through launch and steady-state operations.
Consumer health and wellness companies launching clinical products or services who need rigorous clinical design without sacrificing the consumer experience.
Organizations and venture firms seeking an experienced clinical executive for a board seat, advisory board role, or due diligence support—bringing operational credibility and clinical expertise to governance-level decisions.
Let's Connect
Whether you're a founder building your first clinical team, an executive looking for a strategic advisor, an organization in need of targeted consulting, or a board seeking an experienced clinical voice at the governance level—Faith brings the expertise to move fast and make an impact.
Let's talk about what you're building and how fractional leadership, advisory, consulting, or board service might be the right fit.
[email protected] linkedin.com/in/faith-gutierrezBased in San Mateo, CA · Available for remote and Bay Area engagements