Becker’s Healthcare Podcast: Interview with Kyle Glass, Regional CFO at UChicago Medicine AdventHealth

Release Date: August 29, 2025
Guest: Kyle Glass, Regional Chief Financial Officer, UChicago Medicine AdventHealth
Host: Chanel Bunger, Becker’s Healthcare

Episode Overview

This episode features Kyle Glass, the Regional CFO for UChicago Medicine AdventHealth, sharing insights into his professional background, key healthcare finance trends, organizational achievements, and leadership advice. The conversation offers a deep dive into the changing landscape of healthcare funding, innovative shifts toward patient-centric care, and the importance of continuous improvement and collaboration.

Guest Background & Organizational Overview [00:00–01:17]

• Professional Journey:
  • Kyle has 15 years of experience in various finance roles within AdventHealth, starting in audit and progressing through operations and market CFO positions in Florida before moving to Chicago 18 months ago.
  • He is familiar with the Midwest, having grown up in Minnesota, but spent most of his career in Florida.
• Current Role:
  • Leads financial strategy for UChicago Medicine AdventHealth, a partnership blending academic and community healthcare in the greater Chicagoland area.
• Quote:

  “I've been with Advent Health for 15 years in various finance roles... and then about a year and a half ago moved [to] Chicago to join the group here.” – Kyle Glass [00:23]

Key Healthcare Trends on the CFO Radar [01:28–03:41]

• Legislative & Funding Shifts:
  • Monitoring the impact of the “one big beautiful bill” and its effects on Medicaid, Medicaid funding, and provider tax payments in Illinois and beyond.
  • Concern over potential loss of Medicaid funding, especially for safety net hospitals and vulnerable populations.
  • Critical focus on the intersection of federal, state, and ACA-related changes and how they affect access to care.
• Access to Care Implications:
  • Organizational adaptations are needed to serve communities if Medicaid coverage and funding are reduced.
  • Evaluating how changes in the ACA and state policies may change insurance options for patients.
• Memorable Moment:

  “Medicaid's a plan that covers a lot of lives across the country... In Illinois [there are] estimates of 3 to 350,000 folks that might have access changes. And how do you adjust… when that's been supplementing the reimbursement for those individuals?” – Kyle Glass [02:47]

Future Focus: Innovation, Efficiency, and Consumer-Centered Care [03:48–06:00]

• Optimizing Resource Utilization:
  • Emphasizes the role of AI and automation in increasing efficiency amid labor shortages, especially among nurses and physicians.
  • Sees promise in virtual care and digital tools helping providers work at the top of their license, reducing burnout, and improving access.
• Outpatient and Localized Care Growth:
  • Discusses the strategic pivot towards offering more outpatient services and care closer to patients’ homes.
  • Highlights the shift towards meeting patients where they are and making healthcare more consumer-focused.
  • Believes the industry is moving in the right direction by putting the patient at the center and prioritizing convenience and preventative care.
• Quote:

  “The industry feels like it's definitely shifting towards a consumer focus and patient at the center of care. I think that's the right approach for... whole person true health care.” – Kyle Glass [05:37]

Organizational Achievement: UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Partnership [06:15–08:29]

• Partnership Highlights:
  • Proud of the two-and-a-half-year collaboration with University of Chicago, blending academic-level care with community accessibility.
  • Strategic network development allows seamless patient transitions from outpatient to advanced tertiary care, including access to specialized procedures and transplants.
  • Integration of physician networks to streamline referrals and improve continuity of care.
• Impact:
  • Enhanced access to high-quality care for patients who previously faced geographic or logistical barriers.
  • The partnership improves patient navigation through the health system, reducing delays and improving outcomes.
• Memorable Moment:

  “The combination of the best of academic level care delivered in the community setting closer to where our patients are... Having access to navigate that patient from their initial imaging study… directly to an academic center that has the ability to do any level of care that's needed.” – Kyle Glass [06:24, 06:56]

Leadership Wisdom: Advice for Emerging Healthcare Leaders [08:44–11:25]

• Continuous Growth Mindset:
  • Encourages leaders to cultivate intrinsic motivation and approach each day as an opportunity to solve problems and advance team performance.
• Team-Building and Stewardship:
  • Stresses hiring “people that are smarter than you” and fostering a collaborative environment.
  • Advocates for stewardship: improving systems for future leaders and the community.
• Mission-Driven Work:
  • Connects personal motivation (“your why”) to organizational mission, yielding more meaningful results.
  • Calls for leaders to take ownership:

    “You are the solution you’re looking for.” – Kyle Glass [11:01]

  • Promotes continuous process improvement—even deploying version 1.0 of a solution while working toward version 2.0 and beyond.
• Quote:

  “A lot of times I think people are... waiting to be grown by the person they work for. Understand that's important... but each leader [should] have that intrinsic motivation to grow themselves as well.” – Kyle Glass [08:48]

Final Thoughts & Closing [11:25–12:20]

• Industry Collaboration:
  • Kyle praises platforms like Becker’s for connecting healthcare leaders and spreading best practices during times of change.
  • Emphasizes the value of sharing experiences to strengthen the healthcare community and patient care.
• Quote:

  “The more leaders across healthcare... can share best practices and information and stay aligned in the work, the better off our community is and the better off our patient is, which is awfully why we do what we do.” – Kyle Glass [11:38]

Key Timestamps

• Guest Introduction & Background: [00:00–01:17]
• Current Healthcare Trends: [01:28–03:41]
• Future Outlook & Innovation: [03:48–06:00]
• Organizational Achievement: [06:15–08:29]
• Leadership Advice: [08:44–11:25]
• Closing & Final Thoughts: [11:25–12:20]

This episode offers candid, timely insight into the financial forces shaping healthcare, strategies for innovation and efficiency, and actionable leadership guidance from an accomplished CFO on the frontlines of today’s industry evolution.