PRINCETON – Healthcare chief Bill Arnold, Executive Vice President and Southern Region President for RWJBarnabas Health and CEO of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, was put in at the moment as chair of the Board of the New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA).

The set up and appointment of latest Board officers and members had been a part of NJHA’s 105^th Annual Meeting held on the NJHA Conference and Event Center in Princeton. NJHA, based in 1918, has 400 members spanning New Jersey’s healthcare neighborhood together with hospitals, well being methods and post-acute care suppliers. Together, they share a dedication to enhancing the well being of New Jerseyans.

Arnold assumes the chair’s position at a time when hospitals are dealing with an array of challenges, together with addressing historic workforce shortages, sustaining monetary stability, and assembly rising wants for healthcare companies in New Jersey. NJHA offers a platform for collaboration and the unified function wanted to make headway as our healthcare panorama evolves, mentioned Arnold.

“NJHA, led by Cathy Bennett and her team, tirelessly advocates for our industry so we can provide the best service and address issues that impact our communities as barriers to health,” mentioned Arnold. “Building on the legacy of people who have served before me, many of whom I consider mentors, I am honored to serve in this role and work to make sure New Jersey sets the standard for addressing the critical shortage of healthcare professionals by protecting our current workforce, investing in a pipeline for new professionals and partnering to ensure these actions are sustained.”

“NJHA has a proven track record of success through collaboration around urgent issues,” Arnold continued. “As we mark Maternal Health Awareness this week, we can credit NJHA and leaders in this room for engaging with birthing hospitals statewide to support the implementation of evidence-based, data-driven quality improvement strategies that are improving maternal health outcomes. Our work matters for the people of New Jersey.”

Arnold succeeds 2023 Board Chair Edward J. Condit, president and CEO of St. Mary’s General Hospital in Passaic.

In her remarks to members, NJHA President and CEO Cathy Bennett cited an inventory of things which can be reworking healthcare, together with the affect of AI, breakthrough medicine with excessive value tags, the deepening demand for psychological well being care and sufferers with more and more advanced well being wants. But two essential points loom above all of them, mentioned Bennett.

“The work we do has never been more important – nor more imperiled,” mentioned Bennett. “Hospitals anchor their communities with quality care, economic opportunity and community health investments. Our attention is focused on two priorities that are essential to every aspect of healthcare: creating real solutions to the historic workforce shortage and protecting the financial stability of our systems of care.”

Under Mr. Arnold as board chair, the total slate of NJHA Board officers consists of:

• Vice Chair Mark Stauder, COO of Hackensack Meridian Health
• Treasurer Deborah D. Visconi, president and CEO, Bergen New Bridge Medical Center
• Secretary Robert W. Brenner, MD, president of Valley Health System.

The following healthcare leaders additionally had been appointed to a brand new 2024 time period on the NJHA Board: Sam Bayoumy, interim CEO, Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation – West Orange; James G. Demetriades, CEO, Penn Medicine Princeton Health; Stephen J. Dumke, president, Christian Health; Regina M. Foley, govt vice chairman, chief nursing officer and chief medical transformation and integration officer at Hackensack Meridian Health; Warren Geller, president and CEO, Englewood Health; and Patricia A. O’Keefe, president of Morristown Medical Center and senior vice chairman and chief nursing govt at Atlantic Health System.

Contact: Kerry McKean Kelly
609-275-4069
kmckean@njha.com