Jennifer Grove is Vice President of External Relations at Baptist Health Care, the area’s only not-for-profit health system that is based in, led and governed in northwest Florida. Baptist Health Care includes three hospitals, four medical parks, Andrews Institute for Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine, and a large network of primary care and specialty physicians. With over 4,000 team members, Baptist is one of the largest non-governmental employers in northwest Florida.
In this role, Jen provides executive leadership for corporate marketing, government relations, the Baptist Health Care Foundation, the Faith Health Network and Baptist’s community impact efforts. Jen joined the team at BHC in January 2019 from The Southern Company and Gulf Power where she worked for more than 25 years.
Jen is a graduate of Escambia County School District’s Woodham High School, Birmingham-Southern College, Purdue University and Leadership Florida. Jen serves on many state and local boards focused on improving quality of life including the Florida Chamber Foundation, the Children’s Movement of Florida, Florida’s Great Northwest, the Greater Pensacola Chamber, the UWF Haas Center Council of Economic Advisors, and is a recent appointee as one of two Florida business representatives on the new Florida Credentials Review Committee. This Committee is tasked with creating a Master Credentials list and process for use in directing resources in Florida’s education and workforce development systems.
Jen served as a founding member and continues to heavily engage in the work of ReadyKids! (formerly ECARE) and Achieve Escambia, and was actively engaged in the successful 2020 campaign for the Escambia Children’s Trust. Jen also now serves as Chair of Achieve Healthy EscaRosa, the community’s collective impact effort focused on health improvement. She is a past long-term board member of CareerSource Florida, the Florida Education Foundation, and Leadership Florida. In 2019, Jen was a recipient of the Living the Dream award that honors local individuals for exemplifying the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
                 Jen lives in Pensacola with her husband Ray and enjoys spending time with their four sons Andrew, Hank, Matt and Scott and grandson, Lincoln.