Florence Kariuki
Chief Clinical Officer
Health Recovery Solutions
We are excited to welcome the newest member of our leadership team, Florence Kariuki, RN, BSN, MHA, FHELA. as Chief Clinical Officer, Florence is leading our clinical innovation and reimbursement strategies. Prior to joining HRS, Florence served in various leadership roles at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, focused on innovation of Alternative Payment Programs, Value-Based Programming (PCMH, ACO, EOC), Population Health Management, Social Determinants of Health, Palliative Care, and Total Cost of Care Management strategies. She also has held Critical Care and Maternal/Child patient care positions at the Hackensack Meridian Health System.
Mary Ann Christopher
Corporate Board Director
Health Care Executive
Mary Ann Christopher is a strategic health care executive and board member with an exceptional forty- year record of innovation and market expansion at leading payor, provider and health tech companies. Mary Ann served as CEO of a community health care system in the US with $2B in revenue and over 18,000 interprofessional team members. She drove innovation and partnership as a Corporate Officer of a $13B health plan. She has led mergers, integrations and turnarounds at multibillion-dollar organizations, launched far-reaching community health initiatives and driven aggressive growth and diversification strategies. Mary Ann has provided crucial leadership on dozens of boards and commissions, including the boards of private equity backed companies, driving top line revenue growth with successful exits and profitability.
Mary Ann is a Board Member of private equity backed Health Recovery Solutions, RestorixHealth, Unitek Learning, Hazel Health, Legacy Hospice, RestorixHealth and True Learn. She is a Senior Operating Adviser for the private equity company, LLR Partners. Mary Ann serves as a Strategic Adviser to Brave Health. She served as a board member of Orbis Education and Medbridge Education, facilitating their growth, profitability, and successful exits.
As a Corporate Officer at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (2016-2019), Mary Ann led a broad expansion of services to fully leverage its role as the No. 1 private insurer in the state, including the development of a statewide payor/provider system. She developed and implemented value based payment for home and community based services.
Mary Ann was President and Chief Executive Officer of Visiting Nurse Service of New York (2012-2014), the largest non profit home care and hospice company in the US, with a provider sponsored health plan. As CEO of Visiting Nurse Association Health Group of New Jersey (2001-2011), Mary Ann scaled a statewide enterprise through acquisitions, joint ventures with health systems and service diversification to include home health, hospice, private duty, community based mental health, federally qualified health centers and school-based health services. Prior, she held various leadership positions within the company beginning in 1983, including Chief Operating officer for 12 years.
Mary Ann has served as a director on the boards of companies, universities, health plans, trade associations, hospitals, community-based behavioral health systems, and senior living corporations. She has served on Audit, Finance, Executive and Compensation Committees. She is a Board Regent at Seton Hall University, was a founding member and currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. She serves on the Board of CHAP and is a past board member of National Association of Home Care and Hospice. She served as a congressional appointee to the National Advisory Council on Nursing Education and Practice for the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Mary Ann has written extensively and appeared at hundreds of national health care conferences, including the World Congress Summit in Washington, DC, and the national conference for the Center to Advance Palliative Care. She has presented to international audiences on the topics of health care equity, access and financing. Mary Ann has received numerous honors including the NJBIZ’s list of the Best 50 Women in Business, the Top 50 Most Powerful Health Care Leaders in New Jersey and was awarded the prestigious American Nurses Association Honorary Human Rights Award.
Mary Ann has a Master of Science in Nursing from Seton Hall University and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (summa cum laude) from Fairfield University. She was awarded honorary doctoral degrees from Fairfield University and Monmouth University.