Carol Raphael President and Chief Executive Officer of Visiting Nurse Service (VNS) of New York, the country’s largest voluntary home health care organization, and the Secretary of the Board of Directors of CCLC.

Her responsibilities include managing the VNS programs in post-acute, long-term care, family and children services, rehabilitation, hospice, mental health and public health as well as its health plan for dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. Ms. Raphael developed the Center for Home Care Policy and Research, which conducts policy-relevant research focusing on the management, and quality of home and community-based services. Previously, Ms. Raphael held positions as Director of Operations Management at Mt. Sinai Medical Center and Executive Deputy Commissioner of the Human Resources Administration in charge of the Medicaid and Public Assistance programs in New York City. Ms. Raphael is a member of MedPAC, the commission that advises Congress on Medicare payments and policies. She serves on several Robert Wood Johnson Foundation advisory committees and New York State panels including the Medicaid Reform Task Force, and the New York State Hospital Review and Planning Council, for which she chairs the Fiscal Policy Committee.

She is on the Boards of Lifetime Healthcare Companies, the American Foundation for the Blind, Pace University, and is a member of the Pfizer Hispanic Advisory Board and the Kaiser Permanente Planning Group for Geriatric Care. She has authored papers and presentations on post-acute, long-term care and end-of-life care and co-edited the book “Home Based Care for A New Century.” She has an M.P.A. from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government where she received the 2002 Alumni Achievement Award.