Karen Patti

Chief Operating Officer

Prior to the Promise Fund of Florida, Ms. Patti served as Rehabilitation Manager at Bethesda Hospital East and Bethesda Hospital West, part of Baptist Health South Florida, a not-for-profit health care organization in the Southeast Florida area. Launching in the fall of 2016, Karen’s mission was to create the most comprehensive Outpatient Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing Outpatient Clinic in South Florida, which succeeded. Karen is responsible for facilitating the creation of many unique specialty programs within BHSF’s Outpatient Pediatric Rehabilitation suite of services including Jump to Health targeting childhood wellness, NICU Rehabilitation Team, NICU Graduate Program, Social Skills Groups, Preschool Screening Initiatives, Head, Neck and Cancer Speech-Language and Swallowing Therapy Program, Aphasia Support Groups, Virtual Educational Programming for New and Expecting Mothers, Implementation of FEES and Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Specialties Team.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and double- major in English and Spanish Literature from Denison University in Granville, Ohio and a master’s degree in science in Biobehavioral Studies and Speech-Language Pathology from Columbia University in New York, New York.