ROI Influencers: Health Care 2024
Bob Garrett
CEO
Hackensack Meridian Health
It’s easy to detail the big things that CEO Bob Garrett is helping Hackensack Meridian Health accomplish around the state.
The HMH network, after all, is investing $3.2 billion over the next several years in infrastructure
that will result in new surgical and critical care towers, expanded emergency departments and two dozen new ambulatory care centers opening throughout New Jersey.
It’s easy to note the big things Garrett is showing the rest of the country.
The transformative mixed-use and transit-oriented development project that HMH is building at Metropark Station in Iselin — one that will combine health care with office, retail and residential in an unprecedented way — is unique to the U.S., though you can figure other systems will soon follow.
And it’s easy to point out Garrett’s global efforts, too.
A longtime participant at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Garrett will now serve as chair of the Health and Healthcare Governor’s Community — a group that not only includes leaders from pharmaceuticals, medical devices and providers, but also health organizations and ministers, including Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the chair of the World Health Organization.
While all these accomplishments are laudable, they are not the primary driver for why Garrett is No. 1 on the ROI-NJ Influencers: Health Care list for the second consecutive year.
For all the big things that HMH is doing, Garrett ensures his statewide team of tens of thousands never forgets the little ones – never forgets that care for each individual is at the heart of what HMH does.
It’s why HMH is again home to the No. 1 ranked adult and children’s hospitals, according to U.S. News & World Report.
It’s why HMH continually is honored for its efforts to advance DEI initiatives (when others are pulling back) and health equity goals.
It’s why Garrett is No. 1, yet again.
A look at the previous No. 1 selections in the ROI-NJ Influencers: Health Care
2023: Garrett
2022: Kevin O’Dowd and Anthony Mazzarelli (Cooper University Health Care)
2021: The behavioral health community
2020: Judith Persichilli (Department of Health)
