Vice President of Value-Based Care & Population Health

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center

Jennifer is the Vice President of Primary Care and Population Health for Wake Forest Baptist Health focused on operational and financial performance in value-based arrangements, engagement with community partners, and serving as a liaison with Public Health Sciences to lead and support the journey to high value care. Previous to joining Wake Forest Jennifer was responsible for leading the University of Vermont (UVM) Health Network’s transformation to value through improving quality and lowering costs. In this role she implemented an interdisciplinary collaborative leadership model for quality in partnership with the CMO, CNO and Chief Experience Officer to support quality accountability and improvement at the patient care unit level, launched a Transitions of Care and Care Management initiative to align the Network’s population health and performance goals under Vermont’s All Payer CMS Waiver; and led the development of an integrated network-wide quality and population health strategy to support full transformation into a shared service. With 20+ years as an experienced healthcare leader in both payer and provider environments, Jennifer’s role is to understand and connect the healthcare continuum, data and operations which includes the development of organizational capabilities needed to implement and sustain population health management along with community engagement to minimize care fragmentation and reduce costs. Jennifer earned a Master's in Planning from Florida State University with an emphasis in Health Policy and a Master’s Certificate of Population Health at Thomas Jefferson University.