Year Honored: 2017

Biography

Janice E. Nevin, MD, MPH is a visionary and collaborative health care leader committed to delivering high quality, affordable care to everyone. As President and CEO of the largest health system in Delaware, Christiana Care, she is pioneering value-based care in a population health model. She is transforming how health care is delivered to ensure proactive optimal health and the inclusion of all Delawareans in their own health decisions.

Dr. Nevin has advanced Christiana Care’s commitment to serve its community with expert, respectful care as Chief Medical Officer, Chief Patient Safety Officer and Chair of Family and Community Medicine. She led the transformative and strategic shift in care processes, improving quality, safety, and patient experience by directly involving patients and families as partners in their own care. She is known as an innovator and as a true partner, working closely with leadership, patients, staff, and community members. Christiana Care Board Chair Gary Pfeiffer says “Janice is a visionary – the right leader at the right time. Her every effort is in service to the health of our community.”

Dr. Nevin embodies commitment to the community, pioneering programs such as Care Link, a novel approach to care coordination that addresses not only a patient’s medical needs, but the social and behavioral determinants of health that can be barriers to care and wellness, and Project Engage, a nationally recognized peer addiction recovery program started at Christiana Care.

As senior vice president and executive director of Christiana Care’s Wilmington campus from 2008 to 2011, Dr. Nevin listened to patients. At a time when urban hospitals were leaving their communities and health care costs were soaring, Dr. Nevin ensured that Wilmington Hospital would serve its neighbors as respectful, expert partners in care they can afford and would value. The Wilmington Hospital transformation project has been a $210 million investment towards building a healthy community.

Under her leadership, Christiana Care is one of only 15 major teaching hospitals in the U.S., and the only major teaching hospital to earn the Truven’s Everest Award consecutively in 2015 and 2016. The American Hospital Association named Christiana Care one of 2016’s “Most Wired” hospitals. In 2015, Christiana Care earned re-designation as a magnet organization for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center and was named among the nation’s best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report. Dr. Nevin was named among “Top Physician Leaders to Know” in 2015 and 2016 by Becker’s Hospital Review.

She serves on the board of directors of the United Way of Delaware and the Delaware Community Foundation and is a member of the Delaware Public Policy Institute, Delaware Business Roundtable Executive Committee, and Delaware Chamber of Commerce Board of Governors. She is a founding member of the Wilmington Leaders Alliance and was named the 2016 Woman of Distinction by the Girls Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay.

In a time of great uncertainty in health care, Dr. Nevin rises to the occasion with grace, resilience, and a positive outlook, renewing her commitment to advance the health system’s mission and meeting the health care needs of Delaware and the region.
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Sources and Additional Readings

Janice E. Nevin, M.D., MPH. ChristianaCare. (2021, August 18). Retrieved November 4, 2021, from https://christianacare.org/people/janice-e-nevin/.

Janice E. Nevin, MD, MPH. AHIP. (2019, December 23). Retrieved November 4, 2021, from https://www.ahip.org/speaker/janice-e-nevin-md-mph/.

Tabeling, K. (2020, September 28). In the C-suite: ChristianaCare CEO dr. Janice Nevin. Delaware Business Times. Retrieved November 4, 2021, from https://delawarebusinesstimes.com/news/in-the-c-suite-christianacare-ceo-dr-janice-nevin/.