JANET READY

JANET READY has recently joined St. Joseph’s Health as its new chief operating officer (COO). As COO, she will oversee the daily operations at St. Joseph’s Health and serve as a member of the administrative leadership team. Ready assumes the duties that AnneMarie Czyz had handled for the past five years. Czyz also serves as the chief nursing officer at St. Joseph’s and will remain in that role. Ready previously served as president of Penn Health Princeton Medical Center in Plainsboro, New Jersey and as senior VP at Penn Health since 2014. As president of Princeton Medical Center, she oversaw several expansions and initiatives. In her role as senior VP at Penn Health, Ready focused on the organization’s quality and safety control and strategic growth. Prior to Penn Health, Ready spent nearly 10 years in hospital leadership roles at Healthquest in LaGrange in Dutchess County and at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie. She holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing, a master of science degree in public health, and an MBA degree from Columbia University. Ready is also a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.