Janice E. Nevin is an executive who in 2014 became President and CEO of ChristianaCare Health System.[1][2] She is the first woman to be the head of Delaware's largest hospital system.[3][4]
Early life and education
Nevin was raised in Delaware after and moving to the United States from England in 1970.[5] Her father was a priest and her mother worked as a secretary in the school district.[5]
Nevin and co-authors have published on primary care within a community,[10] preventative care for children[11] and menopausal women.[12] In 2002 she joined ChristianaCare as the senior vice president of their Wilmington campus.[5] She served as the chief medical and patient safety officer, before being named as CEO in 2014.[5]
During a podcast hosted by the Academy Table, Nevin described the arc of her career, women and leadership, and the COVID-19 pandemic.[13] In a 2021 conversation at the National Academy of Medicine, Nevin shared her work in preventing burnout in clinicians during the pandemic.[14]
Awards and honors
In 2017, Nevin was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Delaware Women along with Carolyn Berger, Debra Heffernan, Kendall M. Wilson.[15] That year she also received the Grassroots Champion Award for Delaware from the American Hospital Association[16] and the David G. Menser award from the Wilmington Senior Center for her contribution to the community.[17] In 2018, Nevin was honored with the Amethyst Ball Humanitarian Award from Limen House, a sober living residence in Delaware.[18] In 2020, the Del-Mar-va Council of the Boy Scouts of America named her the Citizen of the Year[6] and Connected World honored her as one of fifty women of technology for her work at ChristianaCare using technology during interactions with patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.[19]