Claire Fontaine is a Senior Advisor based in Zurich. She was chief operating officer of a twelve-hospital system in France and Switzerland for seven years, where she led a program that raised operating theater utilization from 68 to 84 percent and reduced average length of stay by more than a day. She began her career as an intensive care nurse.
Claire joined Vertex as a Senior Advisor in 2023. She works with hospital executives and the firm’s healthcare teams on capacity, patient flow and the practical side of clinical change, and is often the person who explains a redesign to the clinicians who will live with it.
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