FACULTY NEWS
April 2019 - Appointment of Arthur Gianelli, MBA, MPH, as Chief Transformation Officer, Mount sinai health system
As Chief Transformation Officer, Arthur Gianelli will have three areas of responsibility. He will oversee our efforts to improve patient experience throughout the Mount Sinai Health System. He will work with the Office of Strategic Operations and Implementation to expand the use of lean process improvement methodologies and develop lean daily management systems at each of our hospitals. And he will partner with Human Resources and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to develop systematic and continuing training programs for our executive leadership, middle managers, and front-line employees. Mr. Gianelli will work with leadership from across the Health System, building upon efforts already underway, to empower staff to be agents of improvement, to create cultural and behavioral alignment across the organization, and to contribute to the exceptional experience of our patients. Mr. Gianelli will also organize and lead other systemwide improvement efforts at my direction.
Mr. Gianelli is uniquely qualified for this role because of his experience since 2014 as President of Mount Sinai St. Luke’s, a position he will continue to hold as he takes on these new responsibilities. He will also remain President of the Mount Sinai Performing Provider System and a special advisor to me for Medicaid strategy.
At Mount Sinai St. Luke’s, Mr. Gianelli introduced lean management practices, which served as the organizational framework for staff, management, and leadership training; employee engagement; and significant systems and process improvements. He also oversaw the development of the James P. Jones Daily Management and Incident Command Center, which pulls real-time data and runs predictive analytic algorithms to optimize resource allocation and improve clinical and operational decision-making. At Mount Sinai St. Luke’s, he also drove significant improvements in patient experience by emphasizing purposeful hourly rounding, nursing and physician communication, unit cleanliness, and teamwork. He also oversaw improvements in quality and safety metrics; shepherded a transformative capital improvement plan; and worked with Mount Sinai Health System clinical leadership, Mount Sinai Health Partners, and the Mount Sinai Network to grow programs in cardiology and cardiac surgery, medical and surgical oncology, orthopedic trauma, neurosurgery, bariatric surgery, and geriatrics.
Before joining Mount Sinai St. Luke’s, Mr. Gianelli served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Nassau Health Care Corporation, a public benefit corporation based in Nassau County, New York, that runs the Nassau University Medical Center and other health care facilities. Mr. Gianelli earlier held senior executive positions over a 10-year period for two local governments on Long Island.
Mr. Gianelli teaches graduate students in the Healthcare Leadership and Public Health programs at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He has served on a number of health care-related boards of directors, including Regional Policy Board 2 of the American Hospital Association, the Greater New York Hospital Association, Healthcare Leaders of New York, Health Leads, and the executive committees of America’s Essential Hospitals and Healthfirst. Mr. Gianelli holds a Master of Arts in Political Science from Brown University, a Master of Business Administration from Dowling College, and a Master in Public Health from Columbia University.