Executive Leader Summit- POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER

Heather O’Sullivan, MS, APRN, a leading expert in health care innovation and transformation, is President and Chief Operating Officer of Healthcare at Home at Mass General Brigham, where she leads operations of the country’s largest Home Hospital. With three decades of experience, Heather has unrivaled knowledge and insight on strategic innovation and rapid growth initiatives in clinical and payer spaces. Under her leadership, Mass General Brigham’s patients receive the same, best-in-class acute-level hospital services as those at the system’s nationally recognized medical centers — but from the comfort of their homes. Since January of 2022, MGB Home Hospital has cared for over 4,600 patients and saved over 23,000 acute care facility-based bed days. The team’s patient-centered approach, technological investments and strategic partnerships have lowered mortality rates, reduced readmission rates and decreased patients’ length of stay while reducing strain on hospitals. Heather spearheaded a novel, cross-sector partnership with Best Buy Health that will define logistics solutions to optimize care delivery across the continuum of needs in the home setting and create opportunities to enable the next generation of Healthcare at Home workforce. These accomplishments contributed to Heather being recognized as a Top Innovator of the Year by Modern Healthcare in 2023 and featured as part of the Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts by The Boston Globe and The Women’s Edge in 2024.  Within the $18 billion not-for-profit health system, Heather also manages New England’s largest Home Health agency — MGB Home Care, which serves an average of 4,000 patients daily. She also oversees a Mobile Integrated Health fleet which is foundational to our Home Hospital service offering. 

Adam Delmolino, Senior Director, Virtual Care & Clinical Affairs at Massachusetts Hospital Association, leads MHA initiatives regarding telehealth, including convening tMED, the Massachusetts Telemedicine Coalition. Adam’s responsibilities also involve post-acute care and care transitions, case management, rural healthcare, pharmaceutical innovations, climate change, and energy issues. Previously, he served as MHA’s Director of State Government Advocacy where he worked on legislative and regulatory efforts on behalf of hospitals and patients with a particular emphasis on telehealth, healthcare payment reform, pharmacy practices, and nursing issues.  Prior to MHA, Adam worked in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as Research Analyst for the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies and as staff director for the Assistant Vice-Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee.  Adam received his BA in Political Science from the College of the Holy Cross and is a graduate of the Harvard University Extension School, where he received a graduate Certificate in Management. He serves on the Arlington Library Board of Trustees and the Newton-Wellesley Hospital Community Collaborative Elder Council, and sits on the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress Board of Directors.