As the first chief impact officer at Jackson Health System, Ms. Fonte leads a pioneering division dedicated to the strategic integration of managed care, population health and medical economics, steering the organization’s transition from volume to value for one of the nation’s largest and most complex public health systems. She manages a $1.5 billion managed care portfolio, leading high-stakes payer negotiations and executing strategies that sustain the system’s mission of providing world-class care to all residents regardless of ability to pay. Her strategic oversight of the office of impact resulted in $29.8 million of financial impact in fiscal year 2024, exceeding the system’s budget by more than $17 million. Ms. Fonte designed a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Homeless Trust intervention that integrated housing as a clinical intervention for high-utilizers, achieving an 82.2% reduction in acute care utilization and an 86.2% decrease in healthcare costs for the cohort. She also led the Federally Qualified Health Center care integration initiative, coordinating a unified framework with eight major community health centers to streamline specialty referrals and improve longitudinal care for thousands of underserved residents. In 2024, she was named a “Woman of Impact” by the Miami-Dade County Commission on the Status of Women, and in 2025 she received the YWCA “First, But Not The Last” trailblazer award, recognizing her as a pioneer who has broken barriers in healthcare administration and community advocacy. As an inaugural “Carol Emmott Fellow” and board chair of the Health Foundation of South Florida, she oversees more than $160 million in assets directed toward regional health equity initiatives. A 2025 cover profile in Hispanic Executive magazine showcased her approach to scaling population health programs as a national model for executive leadership.
