Two Hackensack Meridian Health Executives Recognized Among the 2019 NJBIZ Best 50 Women in Business
February 26, 2019
Hackensack Meridian Health is pleased to announce that two of its executives have been recognized among the 2019 roster of NJBIZ Best 50 Women in Business. The honourees are: Catherine A. Ainora, executive vice president and chief integration officer of Hackensack Meridian Health andNancy R. Corcoran-Davidoff, executive vice president, chief human resources officer for Hackensack Meridian Health.
“With great pride and pleasure, I want to congratulate our esteemed executives on their well-deserved recognitions,” said Robert C. Garrett, CEO of Hackensack Meridian Health. “Cathy Ainora and Nancy Corcoran-Davidoff are visionary leaders and trusted friends, they are essential driving forces in implementing our mission to transform health care and serve as leaders of positive change.”
According to NJBIZ, the Best 50 Women in Business awards program honors New Jersey’s most dynamic women in business. An independent panel of judges recognized them for their outstanding contributions to the state of New Jersey, both in their industries and communities.
Ms. Ainora is responsible for the integration architecture of the health network, including Hackensack Meridian Health’s most recent mergers, and the development of care transformation services. She previously served as acting chief strategy officer and was responsible for regional strategic network growth through mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and creative partnerships with health systems, hospitals, ambulatory centers, and physicians.
Ms. Corcoran-Davidoff is responsible for the strategic leadership, design, implementation, and monitoring of programs and initiatives that fulfill the mission to achieve a high reliability culture focused on person-centered care models which provide an extraordinary human experience comprised of safety, quality, respect and empathetic care and services. She is responsible for developing and executing the human resource strategy in support of the strategic direction of the health network.
This year’s NJBIZ Best 50 Women in Business will be honored during a special awards reception and ceremony on March 25 at the Palace at Somerset Park in Somerset, NJ.
ABOUT HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH
Hackensack Meridian Health is a leading not-for-profit health care organization that is the largest, most comprehensive and truly integrated health care network in New Jersey, offering a complete range of medical services, innovative research and life-enhancing care.
Hackensack Meridian Health comprises 17 hospitals from Bergen to Ocean counties, which include three academic medical centers – Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, JFK Medical Center in Edison; two children’s hospitals - Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital in Hackensack, K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital in Neptune; nine community hospitals – Bayshore Medical Center in Holmdel, Mountainside Medical Center in Montclair, Ocean Medical Center in Brick, Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, Pascack Valley Medical Center in Westwood, Raritan Bay Medical Center in Old Bridge, Raritan Bay Medical Center in Perth Amboy, Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, and Southern Ocean Medical Center in Manahawkin; a behavioral health hospital – Carrier Clinic in Belle Mead; and two rehabilitation hospitals - JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute in Edison and Shore Rehabilitation Institute in Brick.
Additionally, the network has more than 500 patient care locations throughout the state which include ambulatory care centers, surgery centers, home health services, long-term care and assisted living communities, ambulance services, lifesaving air medical transportation, fitness and wellness centers, rehabilitation centers, urgent care centers and physician practice locations. Hackensack Meridian Health has more than 34,100 team members, and 6,500 physicians and is a distinguished leader in health care philanthropy, committed to the health and well-being of the communities it serves.
The network’s notable distinctions include having four hospitals among the top 10 in New Jersey by U.S. News and World Report. Other honors include consistently achieving Magnet recognition for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center and being named to Becker’s Healthcare’s “150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare/2018” list.
The Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University, the first private medical school in New Jersey in more than 50 years, welcomed its first class of students in 2018 to its On3 campus in Nutley and Clifton. Additionally, the network partnered with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to find more cures for cancer faster while ensuring that patients have access to the highest quality, most individualized cancer care when and where they need it.
Hackensack Meridian Health is a member of AllSpire Health Partners, an interstate consortium of leading health systems, to focus on the sharing of best practices in clinical care and achieving efficiencies.
For additional information, please visit www.HackensackMeridianHealth.org.