Ms. Diamond is president of Bridgeport Hospital, a 501-bed acute care hospital with two campuses that admits more than 30,000 patients and provides more than 600,000 outpatient treatments annually. The hospital is home to the Connecticut Burn Center, the only burn center in the state and one of only 80 verified burn centers in the nation. Ms. Diamond began at the hospital just before the Covid-19 pandemic and led staff through the crisis while implementing new procedures and technologies, including a new stroke center equipped with a biplane neuro-angiography imaging system. Serving a city with a large Latino population, she launched a Hispanic breast cancer program in partnership with Smilow Cancer Hospital leadership and advocated for a Spanish-language social media campaign to engage the Hispanic community. Appointed executive sponsor for workplace violence, disaster preparedness, safety and security for Yale New Haven Health System, she oversaw work groups that developed innovative safety methodologies and earned the hospital national recognition for training armed security guards. Ms. Diamond previously served as president and CEO of Day Kimball in Putnam, Conn. and CEO of John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington, Conn., and she received the American Hospital Association’s “Grassroots Champion Award” in 2020 for her work addressing asthma in the state.
