DeAnna Minus-Vincent
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DeAnna Minus-Vincent serves as the Senior Vice President, Chief Social Integration and Health Equity Strategist at RWJBarnabas Health. In her role, Ms. Minus-Vincent leads the system’s “Ending Racism, Together”. She is responsible for developing, instituting, and monitoring an anti-racist strategy to ensure all RWJBarnabas Health patients and employees are afforded an equitable environment that is free from discriminatory practices. In addition to promoting equity within the walls of the hospital, Ms. Minus-Vincent works with internal and external stakeholders to promote anti-racist policies, design programs and invest in the communities that it serves to promote equitable health, social, and economic outcomes.
Throughout her tenure at the system, Ms. Minus-Vincent has demonstrated programmatic and policy prowess, as well as an affinity for scaling initiatives. She has worked with diverse stakeholders to implement strategies that improve health outcomes and promote health equity. She recently co-designed and launched the system’s new social determinants of health integration initiative, Health Beyond the Hospital (HBH), which will allow physicians to identify social factors contributing to their patients’ health and streamline connection to resources when needed. Ms. Minus-Vincent also oversees the system’s housing and community development initiatives.
Before coming to RWJBarnabas Health, Ms. Minus-Vincent served as the Chief Engagement Officer at Benefits Data Trust, a national social change organization. Additionally, she has served as the Assistant Commissioner for the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs and Director of Planning and Development for the Central Jersey Family Health Consortium. She currently sits on the Board of the Corporation for Supportive Housing and the Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey. She received a Master of Public Administration from Rutgers University; a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from Morgan State University; and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Business Administration with a concentration in Strategic Leadership and Innovation from Concordia University, Chicago. Born and raised in Trenton, DeAnna is a native New Jerseyan and lives in Lumberton with her husband, Daryl and daughter, Darynn.