West Orange, NJ – November 3, 2020 – President and Chief Executive Officer of RWJBarnabas Health Barry H. Ostrowsky has announced the promotion of DeAnna Minus-Vincent to Senior Vice President, Chief Social Integration and Health Equity Strategist. Ms. Minus-Vincent will continue working with Michellene Davis, Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer.
“From housing to education, DeAnna has tackled some of the most difficult issues facing our country today,” said Mr. Ostrowsky. “She is dedicated to creating change from the ground up, improving health outcomes in a meaningful and lasting way. I am confident in her abundant abilities to continue this journey as we pursue an intentionally anti-racist, equitable culture within our system and our communities.”
In her new role, which is effective immediately, Ms. Minus-Vincent will lead the system’s "Ending Racism, Together". She will be responsible for developing, instituting, and monitoring an anti-racist strategy to ensure all RWJBarnabas Health patients and employees are afforded an equitable environment that is free from discriminatory practices. In addition to promoting equity within the walls of the hospital, Ms. Minus-Vincent will work with internal and external stakeholders to promote anti-racist policies, design programs and invest in the communities that it serves to promote equitable health, social, and economic outcomes.
Throughout her tenure at the system, Ms. Minus-Vincent has demonstrated programmatic and policy prowess, as well as an affinity for scaling initiatives. She has worked with diverse stakeholders to implement strategies that improve health outcomes and promote health equity. She recently co-designed and launched the system’s new social determinants of health integration initiative, Health Beyond the Hospital (HBH), which will allow physicians to identify social factors contributing to their patients’ health and streamline connection to resources when needed. Ms. Minus-Vincent also oversees the system’s housing and community development initiatives.
Before coming to RWJBarnabas Health, Ms. Minus-Vincent served as the Chief Engagement Officer at Benefits Data Trust, a national social change organization. Additionally, she has served as the Assistant Commissioner for the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs and Director of Planning and Development for the Central Jersey Family Health Consortium. She currently sits on the Board of the Corporation for Supportive Housing and the Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey. She received a Master of Public Administration from Rutgers University; a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from Morgan State University; and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Business Administration with a concentration in Strategic Leadership and Innovation from Concordia University, Chicago. Born and raised in Trenton, DeAnna is a native New Jerseyan and lives in Lumberton with her husband, Daryl and daughter, Darynn.
About RWJBarnabas Health
RWJBarnabas Health is the largest, most comprehensive academic health care system in New Jersey, with a service area covering nine counties with five million people. The system includes eleven acute care hospitals; three acute care children’s hospitals and a leading pediatric rehabilitation hospital with a network of outpatient centers, a freestanding 100-bed behavioral health center, two trauma centers, a satellite emergency department, ambulatory care centers, geriatric centers, the state’s largest behavioral health network, comprehensive home care and hospice programs, fitness and wellness centers, retail pharmacy services, a medical group, multi-site imaging centers and an accountable care organization. In meeting its mission of creating healthier communities, RWJBarnabas Health seeks to address the clinical and social determinants of health, improve health outcomes, promote health equity, and eliminate health care disparities.
RWJBarnabas Health is in partnership with Rutgers University to create New Jersey’s largest academic health care system. The collaboration will align RWJBarnabas Health with Rutgers’ education, research and clinical activities, including those at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey - the state's only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center - and Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care. To learn more, please visit www.rwjbh.org.