Irene Kaufmann

Irene Kaufmann is the Executive Director of the Bronx Partnership for Healthy Communities, (BPHC), an emerging Performing Provider System comprised of more than 200 community based organizations and two anchor hospitals, St. Barnabas Health System and Montefiore Medical Center. Created to implement and manage the NYS DSRIP Program, BPHC is responsible for establishing systems for coordinating care among its member providers, improving health outcomes of Medicaid beneficiaries under their care, reducing unnecessary hospital utilization and determining and distributing incentive payments to provider and member organizations that achieve targeted outcomes.

Previously, Ms. Kaufmann was a senior executive at NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation where, as Sr. Assistant Vice President of the Office of Ambulatory Care Transformation, she led projects at the system level to redesign ambulatory care, implement medical homes, establish system wide referral and care coordination systems and develop innovative learning venues for front line staff and clinicians. At the regional level, Ms. Kaufmann headed the Office of Strategic Priorities and Partnerships for the Queens Health Network, where she was responsible for integrating hospital and community based services into a fully integrated care continuum for patients in the borough of Queens.

Ms. Kaufmann earned Master degrees in Medical Anthropology and in Public Administration from NYU. She has taught courses in strategic planning and multiculturalism at Mercy College Graduate Program in Health Services Administration.