Ms. Cusack serves as the principal financial architect for Northwell Health, the largest healthcare provider and private employer in the state of New York, orchestrating financial strategy and operations across the system’s $22.6 billion in revenue, more than 106,000 employees, 28 hospitals, more than 1,050 ambulatory care locations and 73 urgent care locations. Her oversight spans capital allocation, financial planning and risk management, and she masterfully oversees an annual capital budget exceeding $1 billion that supports the system’s growth and innovation agenda. Most recently, Ms. Cusack aligned the financial integration of Northwell’s merger with Danbury, Conn.-based Nuvance Health, leading the financial due diligence, structuring the investment commitments and engineering the financial models that created the largest health system in the Northeast, positioning the combined entity to serve more than 13 million people. She consistently ensures optimal access to the capital markets and maintains the system’s strong investment-grade credit rating. Ms. Cusack joined Northwell Health in 1996 and built expertise across strategic tax planning, complex debt financing, revenue cycle performance, financial reporting and risk-based contracts, with an earlier foundation at Deloitte and Touche. She serves on the finance and audit committees of Northwell’s board of trustees, and is a member of Hofstra University’s Zarb School of Business dean’s advisory board.
