NACHC - National Association of Community Health Centers
07/29/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/29/2024 08:54
Diana Erani Joins NACHC Leadership Team as Chief Operating Officer
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Amy Simmons Farber
Tel: (202) 309-0338 Email: [email protected]
Bethesda, MD-Diana Erani, MBA, will join the leadership team of the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) as Chief Operating Officer (COO). Ms. Erani brings to the leadership role an extensive background in community health innovations, operations management, health informatics, and a mission-driven commitment for health equity.
Ms. Erani's selection is the result of a nationwide search conducted in partnership with Diversified Search Group, the largest woman-founded and woman-led executive search firm in the U.S. Diversified Search Group is an industry leader in recruiting diverse, inclusive, and transformational leadership for clients across all industries and sectors.
For the past decade Ms. Erani worked for the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, a Primary Care Association and Health Center Controlled Network representing 52 health centers and serving 1 in 7 patients across the Bay State. Ms. Erani served Mass League in multiple capacities, most recently as COO and head of health informatics, where she established strategies to optimize the use of electronic health records among health centers to drive quality improvement and clinical performance. During her tenure at Mass League, Ms. Erani launched an online collaborative user community for health center staff, created diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging programming and protocols, and implemented a $310 million dollar student loan repayment program administered by Mass League, to include resource onboarding. Ms. Erani started her work in the community health center movement at a federally qualified health center, Healthcare for the Homeless-Houston. There she served as COO, where she overhauled operations to ensure integrated comprehensive care for the unhoused and led the development and implementation of the health center's strategic plan and electronic medical record system.
Ms. Erani serves on the board of the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, a trusted and objective facilitator of health information and technology transformation in Massachusetts and across the country. She was also vice chair of the Health Center Controlled Network Task Force at NACHC, an essential leadership committee that tracks and addresses issues related to the growth and development of HCCNs.
Ms. Erani earned a Bachelor of Arts from Boston University and a Master of Business Administration from New York University's Stern School of Business.
Ms. Erani will officially join NACHC on September 16, 2024.
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NACHC is the leading innovative change agent collaborating with affiliates and partners to advance Community Health Centers as the foundation of an equitable health care system free from disparities, and built on accessible, patient-governed, high-quality, integrated primary care.