West Orange, NJ, November, 2020 – President and Chief Executive Officer of RWJBarnabas Health Barry H. Ostrowsky has announced the promotion of Patrick Knaus to Executive Vice President, System Strategy.He previously served as Senior Vice President, System Strategy.
“Patrick’s understanding of the health care industry and his business acumen is clearly exceptional. His leadership supports RWJBarnabas Health’s efforts to grow strategically and successfully in a rapidly changing environment.” said Mark E. Manigan, Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer to whom Mr. Knaus reports.
In his expanded role, Mr. Knaus will continue to oversee strategic planning and market analysis functions for RWJBH. He has served as Senior Vice President, System Strategy since 2016. His promotion coincides with changes to the system’s strategic leadership structure designed to best position RWJBH for future success as a system. Under this new structure, strategy, business development and ambulatory divisions will be consolidated to help ensure that key transactions and business activities remain solidly linked to the strategic plan.
Mr. Knaus has more than 25 years of health care experience working in multi-hospital health systems. Prior to 2016 with the merger of RWJ Health System and Barnabas Health he led strategy and business development at RWJHS,, where he was responsible for driving the strategic planning process, leading the GE Management System/Operation: Excellence process, and supporting multiple service line initiatives. From 2001 to 2010, Mr. Knaus directed strategy and business development efforts at St. Mary Medical Center, creating the organization’s overall strategic plan, as well as being responsible for service line development, ambulatory growth and physician recruitment. He has worked in health care strategy for other systems including Franciscan Health System, Catholic Health Initiatives, and Catholic Health East.
Mr. Knaus is a resident of Stone Ridge, New York
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.