Driving the Hackensack Meridian Health mission to transform healthcare regionally and globally, Mr. Garrett has led network initiatives over the past year that elevate and expand access to care, enhance research and discovery, innovate medical education, improve quality outcomes, and advance pandemic-related recovery. The network has been recognized as a leader in quality and health equity and has the No. 1 adult and children’s hospitals in New Jersey and is No. 1 in the nation in DEI. Under Mr. Garrett’s leadership, the network continues to build the health system of the future by expanding access, better coordinating care, enhancing the patient experience and innovating care. The network recently opened New Jersey’s first “smart hospital.” Mr. Garrett participated in a United Nations panel which developed uniform global standards to help healthcare providers identify and aid victims of human trafficking, protocols sent to the World Health Organization for adoption. On a national level, Mr. Garrett participated as a featured speaker this spring in POLITICO’s national healthcare summit in Washington D.C., addressing the importance of advancing health equity through social determinants of health and quality strategies.
