Ms. Iachetti leads Hackensack Meridian Palisades Medical Center, advancing strategic initiatives to improve healthcare delivery, drawing on more than four decades in emergency department nursing and leadership. She began at Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center in 1994 as an emergency room nurse and held roles including vice president of operations, administrator of clinical services for growth and development, and senior director of strategy and market development. She helped create the Air Medical Division and assisted in guiding Hackensack University Medical Center to designation as a level 1 trauma center. After she joined Palisades Medical Center, she led the hospital through the opening of a newly redesigned emergency department featuring two triage rooms, eight private treatment rooms and 15 flexible treatment spaces arranged in “flower pods,” the first of their kind in the state, as the first phase of a $50 million investment in emergency services. She championed the integration of robotic surgery, enabling minimally invasive procedures with greater precision and faster recovery. Her community work includes collaboration with Hudson County government to address barriers to care for people who are unhoused and an adopt-a-school program with the John F. Kennedy School in North Bergen. In 2025, Ms. Iachetti was honored with the “Person of the Year” award by the Fort Lee Chamber of Commerce.
