NEWPORT HOSPITAL - Key Persons
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- Vice Chairman of the Lifespan Board of Directors
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- Lifespan Workforce Development Program Manager
Alexis Devine is dedicated to creating access to job opportunities for underrepresented populations and providing the skills to sustain employment. In 2004, Devine co-created Lifespan's nationally recognized Summer Youth Employment (SYE) program, which hires at-risk youth to work paid summer jobs in Lifespan affiliates and attend work-readiness training. In addition, Devine designed the Lifespan Workforce Solutions, Training, and Teamwork (S.T.A.T.) program in 2013. The S.T.A.T. program is modeled after SYE; however, it serves unemployed adults and offers free education and on-the-job learning to become certified for hard-to-fill healthcare positions. The S.T.A.T. programs are fully comprehensive, offering on-site learning, job skill training, financial support for barriers to employment, and case management services.
In her nearly 20 years at Lifespan, Devine secured over five million dollars in private and state funding to serve 2,200 Rhode Islanders from underserved communities. She has a passion for addressing barriers to employment, providing support services, improving outcomes for those in need through employment and the diversifying healthcare workforce. She is known to say, "Jobs save lives and provide a sense of purpose, belonging, and self-efficacy."
Prior to joining Lifespan, Devine earned her bachelor of arts in public health from Brown University. Devine has continued her connection with Brown University as an assistant faculty member at The Warren Alpert Medical School.
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- Community Outreach Coordinator
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- Program Coordinator
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Arianna Wolanski earned her bachelor's degree in public health sciences from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is currently pursuing a master's in healthcare administration from Suffolk University. Prior to joining the team, Wolanski was a case manager assisting homeless young adults in securing housing and intervening in times of crisis to assist and connect clients with the appropriate resources. In her current role at Lifespan, she is a program coordinator for the Workforce S.T.A.T. Nursing Assistant and Pharmacy Technician programs.
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- Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Lifespan
Cedric Priebe, MD, is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Lifespan.
Prior to joining Lifespan, he was the CIO at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital, and the Brigham and Women's Physician Organization, where he was responsible for the implementation of the Epic system. He has also held Chief Medical Information Officer and CIO roles at the Care New England Health System, and leadership positions with IDX Systems Corporation, Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, and McKesson Health Solutions.
Dr. Priebe is a 1984 graduate of Harvard College and a 1988 graduate of Harvard Medical School. He is a pediatrician and has supervised and taught pediatric residents and medical students as clinical faculty at Harvard Medical School and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
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- Chief
- Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer, Lifespan
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Christin Zollicoffer is chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Lifespan. In this role, Zollicoffer leads Lifespan's strategy for developing as a diverse, inclusive and culturally responsive health care system.
As Lifespan's chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer, Zollicoffer is responsible for a comprehensive plan for increasing diverse representation at all levels of the organization, and for ensuring that diversity, equity and inclusion considerations are incorporated into decision-making processes with the goal of fair and equitable treatment for all. She partners with human resources to increase focus on ownership and accountability for plans related to diversity, equity and inclusion at Lifespan, and also cultivates strategic relationships to ensure that Lifespan serves as an agent for transformative change in the community.
Zollicoffer previously served as vice president for community health and well-being and a regional director for diversity, equity and inclusion at Trinity Health in Michigan, where she led DEI strategy and implementation for a 2,270-bed, 45,000-employee geographic region. She initiated innovative training, deployed diversity measures and process changes that achieved priority strategic goals for the region, and trained executives and leaders to recognize and address unconscious bias.
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- President
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Crista F. Durand was appointed President of Newport Hospital in 2014. She was previously vice president of strategic planning, marketing, and business development at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London, Connecticut. She holds a bachelor's degree in financial management from Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island and a master's in business administration from Nichols College in Dudley, Massachusetts. She is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
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- Member of the Lifespan Board of Directors
Elizabeth Grant, BSN, RN, is a registered nurse and a nurse educator for the Lifespan Nursing Assistant School. Mentoring and helping train aspiring nurses has been a passion throughout her 28-year career. Her approach to both patient care and teaching is founded on positivity, shared knowledge and experience, and a love of the profession.
Grant has extensive experience creating onboarding processes and orientation materials for preceptors and new nurses. She enjoys mentoring and derives great satisfaction from seeing her fellow nurses realize their own professional goals. Most recently, she worked at an ambulatory surgical center in a variety of roles, including admitting, pre-admission testing, and the operating room. Prior to that, she was a critical care nurse and worked in the emergency department at Rhode Island Hospital.
Grant earned an associate degree in nursing from Community College of Rhode Island and a bachelor's degree in nursing from Rhode Island College.
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- Member of the Lifespan Board of Directors
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- Training Center Assistant
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- Board Chair of Coastal Medical
- Senior Vice President at Lifespan
- Senior Vice President for Primary Care and Population Health, Lifespan
G. Alan Kurose, MD is senior vice president for primary care and population health for Lifespan.
Dr. Kurose was one of the founders of Coastal Medical in 1995 and practiced primary care internal medicine for 20 years. He has been president of Coastal Medical since 2008. Dr. Kurose continually explores new strategies to deliver high quality, cost-effective, and patient centered care.
Dr. Kurose is the board chair of Coastal Medical and is also active in the community, serving on the board of Healthcentric Advisors and as chairman of the board of the Rhode Island Foundation. He also serves as a co-chair of the RI Cost Trends Steering Committee.
In his role as a senior vice president at Lifespan, Dr. Kurose shapes and advances the overall primary care and population health strategy for the system.
Dr. Kurose is a graduate of the Washington University School of Medicine, the Brown University Internal Medicine Residency Training Program, and the Yale MBA for Executives Program. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice at Brown University.
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- Community Outreach Specialist
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- Member of the Lifespan Executive Leadership Team
- President and CEO, Lifespan, and Interim President, Rhode Island Hospital
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- Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer, Lifespan
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- Chairman of the Lifespan Board of Directors
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- Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy and Planning Officer, Lifespan
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- Member of the Lifespan Executive Leadership Team
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- Cardiac Project Coordinator
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- Community Outreach Specialist
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- Medical Director, Anne C. Pappas Center for Breast Imaging
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- Case Manager
- Program Coordinator
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- Clinical Director of Social Work and Counseling at
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- Program Coordinator, Connect for Health
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- Member of the Lifespan Executive Leadership Team
- Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Lifespan
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- Vice Chairman of the Lifespan Board of Directors
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- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Lifespan
Lifespan, Rhode Island's first health system, was founded in 1994 by Rhode Island Hospital and the Miriam Hospital. A comprehensive, integrated, academic health system with The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Lifespan's present partners also include Rhode Island Hospital's pediatric division, Hasbro Children's Hospital; Bradley Hospital; Newport Hospital; Gateway Healthcare; Lifespan Physician Group; and Coastal Medical.
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- Member of the Lifespan Board of Directors
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- Member of the Lifespan Board of Directors
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- President, Lifespan Physician Group, Inc
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- Community Relations Partner
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- Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, Lifespan
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- Member of the Lifespan Board of Directors