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HEALTH CARE
Terry Murphy
Bayhealth
With decades of executive leadership,
Terry Murphy has led Bayhealth not
only through a response of COVID-19
but has worked on expanding the
Dover-based health care system
outside its traditional borders. In
the last fi ve years, Bayhealth has
been leading the way in the southern
Delaware health care arms race by
building a new hybrid emergency
department in Harbeson as well as a
new multi-million hospital campus
in Milford, striking partnerships with
Post Acute Medical Care and Nemours
Children’s Health to better serve
residents. Bayhealth, a health care
system with annual net revenue of $760
million, continues to look to improve
quality of service and has launched
several medical residency programs to
retain talent in the First State.
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Chris Otto
Delaware Nurses
Association
Delaware Nurses Association Executive
Director Chris Otto fi rst felt called to
the nursing profession when he worked
as an escort at Wilmington Hospital.
He has been a registered nurse in
Delaware for more than a decade with
experience in progressive and critical
care, open heart surgery and neurology.
Otto was selected as the next leader of
the 100-year-old organization in 2021.
In addition to improving standards
of care, Otto helped launch a special
task force to design and implement
programs and policies that promote
health equity. He has also served on
several state and national nursing
committees as well as writing columns
on issues like critical care nursing.
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Janice Nevin
ChristianaCare
In 2014, Dr. Janice Nevin became the
fi rst female CEO for ChristianaCare,
Delaware’s largest health care system
and nonprofi t employer. She served as
a faculty member and the residency
director for family and community
medicine at Jeff erson Medical College
in Philadelphia up until ChristianaCare
literally came calling in 2002. As the
leader of ChristianaCare, Nevin has
helped foster growth with the health
care system, acquiring two hospitals
in Maryland and Pennsylvania as well
as opening several new practices in
southern Delaware and Pennsylvania.
Under her watch, ChristianaCare has
innovated in new spaces with the Gene
Editing Institute, launching the spin-off
company CorriXR Th erapeutics and
breaking ground with its center for
virtual health
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As a division of the New York Blood
Center Enterprises, the Blood Bank
of Delmarva provides blood and
blood products to 19 hospitals on the
Delmarva Peninsula. Bruce Sachais
also serves as senior vice president and
chief medical offi cer of the New York
Blood Center. In 2021, he helped unite
the Blood Bank of Delmarva and Beebe
Healthcare in a novel project that
off ered convalescent plasma therapy to
treat COVID-19 patients.
Dr. Bruce Sachais
Blood Bank of Delmarva
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