Englewood Health Appoints Three New Executive Leaders

November 10, 2022 — Englewood Health has appointed Tina Bloemer, MSN, RN, CPHQ, CPHRM, FASHRM, vice president of quality; Jamie Ketas, vice president of population health; and Marcello Guarneri, CPA, vice president of finance.

Tina Bloemer Joins Englewood as VP, Quality

Bloemer brings over 14 years of experience in risk and quality management to her role at Englewood Health.

Bloemer earned her BS in nursing from the University of Connecticut, followed by her MSN from the University of Phoenix. She served as a neonatal intensive care unit nurse at Yale New Haven Hospital and as a case manager for mothers and infants at Moorestown Visiting Nurse & Hospice.

Bloemer held various progressive positions at Virtua Health, including corporate director of risk management. Before taking on her role at Englewood Health, she spent five years as the director of patient safety, quality, and risk management at Penn Medicine Princeton Health.

As vice president of quality, Bloemer will provide executive oversight of quality, risk management, infection prevention, patient relations, and patient and family engagement.

A key part of her role will be to partner with clinical leaders and administrators to improve and enhance performance, ensure high-quality patient care, and provide superior customer service.

Bloemer succeeds Jamie Ketas, who has served as vice president of quality since 2019.

Jamie Ketas Named VP, Population Health

Ketas has been a member of the Englewood Health team for over a decade, most recently as vice president of quality, and has provided executive oversight of quality management, patient and family engagement, care transition teams, data analytics, and clinical research.

Before serving as vice president of quality, Ketas was the senior director of research and care transitions. Prior to that, she was director of the hospital’s Clinical Research Center and Institutional Review Board.

Ketas previously held a variety of progressive positions focused on research at Weill Cornell Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center.

After receiving her BS in biology from the University of Notre Dame, she earned an MS in management with a graduate certificate in clinical trials management from Thomas Edison State University.

As vice president of population health, Ketas will oversee the development and implementation of the health system’s population health strategy. She will provide strategic and operational leadership to the team built to support Englewood Health’s value-based care model, advance health equity efforts, and promote community health. Ketas will also maintain oversight of data analytics and research operations for the organization.

Marcello Guarneri Joins as VP, Finance

Guarneri joins Englewood Health with more than 30 years of experience in healthcare finance.

Most recently, he was chief financial officer at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center of RWJBarnabas Health. An accomplished and results-oriented financial executive, Guarneri has an extensive background in healthcare financial management and administration, with previous appointments at Saint Michael’s Medical Center, Hospital for Special Surgery, and Holy Name Medical Center, among others. He is a member of the New Jersey Institute of Certified Public Accountants (NJSCPA), Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), and American Institute of CPAs (AICPA). He also serves as a member of the NJHA Audit and Compliance Committee and the NJHA Finance Committee. Guarneri received his BS in business administration at Montclair State.

In this newly created role reporting to Anthony Orlando, CFO, Guarneri will oversee finance, budget and reimbursement, payroll, accounts payable, and materials management and support services at Englewood Health.