PAST SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT WINNERS
2021
DeAnna Minus-Vincent, MPA
DeAnna Minus‐Vincent, MPA, currently serves as the Executive Vice President, Chief Social Justice and
Accountability Officer for RWJBarnabas Health. In this role, DeAnna works across the system, with internal
and external stakeholders to co‐design strategies that improve health outcomes, promote health equity
and eliminate health disparities. Specifically, her portfolio includes leading the system’s anti‐racism efforts
which seek to develop a strategy to ensure that patients, employees, and communities in which RWJBH
serves are equitable, anti‐racist, and free from discriminatory practices that promote poor health, social,
and economic outcomes. Additionally, DeAnna designed and leads, Health Beyond the Hospital, integrates
social factors into the clinical setting by overcoming barriers for both providers and patients. Funded by
the Walmart and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations, this effort offers culturally and linguistically
appropriate social determinant of health screening and connection to services for patients.
2020
Jonathan Metsch, DrPH, former President and CEO of Liberty Medical Center
2019
ADRIENNE KIRBY, PhD, FACHE, FORMER EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN & CEO, COOPER UNIVERSITY HEALTHCARE
2018
THE HONORABLE DAVID J SHULKIN, MD
2017
RICHARD P MILLER, FORMER PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, VIRTUA
2016
ELIZABETH A. RYAN, ESQ. PRESIDENT & CEO NEW JERSEY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION
2015
STEPHEN K. JONES, PRESIDENT AND CEO, ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON HEALTH SYSTEM
BARRY H. OSTROWSKY, PRESIDENT AND CEO, BARNABAS HEALTH
DOUGLAS RATNER, M.D., CHAIRMAN OF MEDICINE, JERSEY MEDICAL CENTER
2014
JEFFERY BRENNER and THE CAMDEN COALITION OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS
2012
NEW JERSEY VETERANS HELPLINE-NJVET2VET 1-866-VETS-NJ-4
2011
ARAMARK HEALTHCARE and CAPITALHEALTH
2010
SATELLITE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT AT DEBORAH
2009
COOPERMEDICALSCHOOLATROWANUNIVERSITY
2008
NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
2007
FRED M. JACOBS, MDJD
2006
GEORGE LYNN ,PRESIDENT OF ATLANTICARE HEALTH SYSTEM
2005
JIM GOSS ,VP ,AND THE PUBLIC RELATIONS AND MARKETING TEAM AT CENTRASTATE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
2004
SALLY ROSLOW AND RON CZAJKOWSKI, NEW JERSEY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION
DeAnna Minus-Vincent, MPA
DeAnna Minus‐Vincent, MPA, currently serves as the Executive Vice President, Chief Social Justice and
Accountability Officer for RWJBarnabas Health. In this role, DeAnna works across the system, with internal
and external stakeholders to co‐design strategies that improve health outcomes, promote health equity
and eliminate health disparities. Specifically, her portfolio includes leading the system’s anti‐racism efforts
which seek to develop a strategy to ensure that patients, employees, and communities in which RWJBH
serves are equitable, anti‐racist, and free from discriminatory practices that promote poor health, social,
and economic outcomes. Additionally, DeAnna designed and leads, Health Beyond the Hospital, integrates
social factors into the clinical setting by overcoming barriers for both providers and patients. Funded by
the Walmart and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations, this effort offers culturally and linguistically
appropriate social determinant of health screening and connection to services for patients.
2020
Jonathan Metsch, DrPH, former President and CEO of Liberty Medical Center
2019
ADRIENNE KIRBY, PhD, FACHE, FORMER EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN & CEO, COOPER UNIVERSITY HEALTHCARE
2018
THE HONORABLE DAVID J SHULKIN, MD
2017
RICHARD P MILLER, FORMER PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, VIRTUA
2016
ELIZABETH A. RYAN, ESQ. PRESIDENT & CEO NEW JERSEY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION
2015
STEPHEN K. JONES, PRESIDENT AND CEO, ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON HEALTH SYSTEM
BARRY H. OSTROWSKY, PRESIDENT AND CEO, BARNABAS HEALTH
DOUGLAS RATNER, M.D., CHAIRMAN OF MEDICINE, JERSEY MEDICAL CENTER
2014
JEFFERY BRENNER and THE CAMDEN COALITION OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS
2012
NEW JERSEY VETERANS HELPLINE-NJVET2VET 1-866-VETS-NJ-4
2011
ARAMARK HEALTHCARE and CAPITALHEALTH
2010
SATELLITE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT AT DEBORAH
2009
COOPERMEDICALSCHOOLATROWANUNIVERSITY
2008
NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
2007
FRED M. JACOBS, MDJD
2006
GEORGE LYNN ,PRESIDENT OF ATLANTICARE HEALTH SYSTEM
2005
JIM GOSS ,VP ,AND THE PUBLIC RELATIONS AND MARKETING TEAM AT CENTRASTATE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
2004
SALLY ROSLOW AND RON CZAJKOWSKI, NEW JERSEY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION