Carol Raphael

Biography

Ms. Raphael has been a director of Henry Schein, Inc. since 2012. She currently serves as a Senior Advisor for Manatt Health Solutions. Ms. Raphael served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York from 1989 to 2011. Prior to this, she held executive positions at Mt. Sinai Medical Center and in New York City government. Ms. Raphael has served on the Federal Bipartisan Commission on Long Term Care, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), the New York State Medicaid Redesign Team, and was an Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University. She is the Chair of the Board of the Long Term Quality Alliance and a board member of the New York eHealth Collaborative, which is implementing a statewide, standardized platform for the exchange of health information. She chaired the National Quality Forum's Post-Acute, Long Term Care, and Hospice Workgroup, which brought together stakeholders to recommend quality measures as federal programs move to public reporting and value-based purchasing. She is co-chair of its Attribution Committee and a member of its All-Cause Admissions and Readmissions Standing Committee. She also co-chaired the West Health Advisory Council on Emergency Department to Home-Based Healthcare. Ms. Raphael currently serves on several non-profit boards including the Primary Care Development Corporation, the Medicare Rights Center, the SCAN Foundation, Commonwealth Care Alliance, and in 2016, completed her term as Chair of the national AARP board. She is also a member of several advisory boards, including the Harvard School of Public Health's Policy and Management Executive Council, the New York City Age-Friendly Commission, the New York State Quality Advisory Committee, and Honor Technology, Inc.'s Advisory Board. Ms. Raphael co-edited the book “Home Based Care for a New Century,” was a Visiting Fellow at the King's Fund in the United Kingdom, and was listed in Crain's New York Business 50 Most Powerful Women in 2009. Ms. Raphael has an MPA from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

Research Interest

Anasthesia