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Arthur A. Gianelli

Arthur A. Gianelli is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Nassau Health Care Corporation, a $545 million public benefit corporation consisting of the Nassau University Medical Center, the A. Holly Patterson Extended Care Facility, five community health centers, and one school based clinic. He has served in this position since June 1, 2006. Previously, Mr. Gianelli served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Corporation. He was appointed to this position on March 8, 2006.

During his tenure, Mr. Gianelli shepherded the Corporation in 2007 to its best financial performance since its inception, sparked by a significant turnaround in the bottom line results of the A. Holly Patterson Extended Care Facility. He directed a successful effort to secure full accreditation from the Joint Commission in 2007, reversing the conditional accreditation assigned to the Corporation just 12 months earlier. Under Mr. Gianelli’s leadership, the Corporation has opened a new community health center and a number of new inpatient units, and it has secured $66 million of funds from the State of New York for facility modernization and debt relief. Mr. Gianelli has initiated a $400 million facility modernization program; the redevelopment of 85 acres of Corporation-owned property; the opening of a philanthropic organization to raise money for the Corporation; the development of a care management program for the uninsured; the launch of the Institute for Healthcare Disparities; the introduction of an insurance enrollment program for children; and the development of an access care program to link the Corporation with community-based physicians.

From January of 2002 through March of 2006, Mr. Gianelli served as the Deputy County Executive for Budget and Finance for Nassau County, New York, where he was responsible for the County’s $2.5 billion operating budget, its $3 billion debt portfolio, and its cash investments. While with Nassau County, Mr. Gianelli developed Nassau’s fiscal recovery plan. The plan has contributed to a “remarkable financial turnaround” in Nassau County according to the Government Finance Review, a publication of the Government Finance Officers Association.

From 1997 through 2001, Mr. Gianelli served as the Director of Operations for the Town of North Hempstead. As the senior appointed official responsible for fiscal and operational matters in the Town, Mr. Gianelli led North Hempstead’s financial recovery by eliminating its deficits, improving its credit rating, introducing a federal lobbying program, and implementing a long-term debt management plan.

Mr. Gianelli has earned numerous professional, educational, and civic awards. The 2004 refunding of the Nassau Health Care Corporation’s outstanding debt was designated as the “Northeast Regional Deal of the Year” in December of 2005 by The Bond Buyer, the industry newspaper for public finance. Mr. Gianelli was featured in the “Public Lives” section of the New York Times in February of 2002, and in January of 2004, he was designated one of “40 Rising Stars Under 40” by the Long Island Business News. In 2007, Mr. Gianelli was honored by the Manhasset Great Neck Economic Opportunity Commission, received the Riland Medal for Health Policy from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, and in December of 2007, Mr. Gianelli was designated one of the top 100 most influential Long Islanders by the Long Island Business News. In 2008, Mr. Gianelli was elected as speaker for his graduating class from the Executive Master of Public Health program at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. He was also honored by the Federation of AAPI (the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin) of Greater NY – NJ and the AAPI of Queens and Long Island. In 2009, Mr. Gianelli received a Best Practice award from the Nassau County Office of Minority Affairs for increasing minority and women owned business participation in the modernization program undertaken by the Nassau Health Care Corporation.

Mr. Gianelli graduated in 1991 from St. John’s University with Bachelor of Arts Degree in History. He has earned three post-graduate degrees: a Master of Arts Degree in Political Science from Brown University in 1994, a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Dowling College in 2003, and a Masters Degree in Public Health in 2008 from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.

Mr. Gianelli lives in New Hyde Park, New York with his wife, Nassau County District Court Judge Sharon Gianelli, and his two stepchildren, Cameron and Jessica.