Donna Antenucci Named Vice President of Population Health Operations

Donna Antenucci, MHA, BSN, RN, has been appointed vice president of Population Health Operations for ChristianaCare.

In this role, Antenucci implements Population Health strategy and programming, as well as leading its related operations, including network development, contract management, clinician engagement, quality and regulatory affairs and risk coding. She also oversees the operations functions of the Population Health analytics and informatics teams on population health-focused activity. She serves as the executive director of ChristianaCare Clinical Alliance and eBrightHealth ACO.

Antenucci previously worked as senior vice president of clinically integrated network operations and president of the Virtua Integrated Network, part of Virtua Health. In this role, Antenucci had oversight responsibility for the management of multiple value-based payer arrangements, including commercial and governmental, to ensure health improvement, better care and lower health care cost for South Jersey residents for more than a decade.

She led the successful integration of 257 primary care physicians and more than 1,000 specialists when Virtua acquired Lourdes Health System in 2019. As a health care leader and nurse for over 30 years, Antenucci has worked in neurological and orthopedic surgery, clinical research, case management, utilization management and clinical program management.

Antenucci was nominated to the National Society of Leadership and Success, an honor awarded to a small group of University of Phoenix MHA graduates. She was featured in South Jersey Biz’s Who’s Who in Healthcare and recognized for spearheading innovative ideas in population health, as she and her team were awarded a Trinity Health innovation grant for a Remote Monitoring project, “Virtual Communication in Population Health.” She was also recognized as a National Association of ACO’s Innovation Award recipient for “Relationship-driven Innovations with Skilled Nursing Facilities” to lower cost and improve quality for Medicare beneficiaries.

She received her master’s degree in health care administration and bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Phoenix.

She reports to Christine Donohue-Henry, M.D., MBA, chief population health officer.