Judith Persichilli
Judith Persichilli was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States on March 4th, 1949 and is the American Nurse And Health Care Executive. At the age of 75, Judith Persichilli biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Perschilli began her career as an intensive care nurse.
Persichilli served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Catholic Health East. Judy also served as Interim Chief Executive Officer of CHE Trinity Health until November 18, 2013. She served as Executive Vice President and of Acute Care at Catholic Health East. Persichilli served as the President of St Francis Medical Center in Trenton for eight years. She served as Executive Vice President, Northeast Division of Catholic Health East.
Persichilli is one of the founding members of the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute. She is Director Emeritus of Hopewell Valley Community Bank. She serves as Trustee of Rider University.
Persichilli was inducted into the New Jersey State Nurses Association Hall of Honor in 2006 In September, 2008, she received the Catholic Charities, Richard J. Hughes Humanitarian Award, Diocese of Trenton’s highest honor. She was named as one of the 50 most powerful people in New Jersey health care by NJBiz in March 2011. In May, 2011, she received the Edward J. Ill Excellence in Medicine Award for Outstanding Medical Executive.
She received an honorary doctor of health degree from Georgian Court University in 2009. In 2011, she was awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters from Sacred Heart University (Fairfield, Connecticut).
Governor of New Jersey Phil Murphy appointed Persichilli to direct the University Hospital in Newark in December 2018. In June 2019, he announced that she would join the cabinet of the Murphy administration as Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Health in July 2019.
Perschilli is seeking to expand gun violence treatment programs.
Persichilli is supervising the state's response to COVID-19 pandemic and reports the number of positive tests and deaths daily. When asked about her personal risk she said “I’m definitely going to get it. We all are. I’m just waiting.” In an anonymous letter to the leaders of the New Jersey Legislature, employees of the health department said mishandling of the crisis led to many preventable deaths and called for Persichilli's resignation.