New York hospital exec chosen to lead Greenwich Hospital

Hartford Business Journal – Tuesday, February 25, 2025
By David Krechevsky

A New York hospital executive has been named the next president of Greenwich Hospital.

The hospital, which is part of Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS), on Tuesday announced that Robert Blenderman will be its next president, effective March 3. Blenderman also will have the title of executive vice president of YNHHS.

He will succeed Diane Kelly, who announced in June last year that she planned to retire in January.

Blenderman has more than two decades of clinical and administrative healthcare experience. He joins Greenwich Hospital from White Plains Hospital in New York, where he served as senior vice president and led initiatives to improve inpatient capacity and expand its ambulatory and campus footprint.

W. Robert Berkley, Jr., chairman of the Greenwich Hospital board of trustees, expressed confidence in Blenderman’s “leadership skills, strategic vision and experience growing ambulatory services,” saying those skills will help to “expedite our clinical growth plan.”

At Greenwich Hospital, Blenderman will lead plans to expand its cancer services and increase access to outpatient services.

Greenwich Hospital is a 206-bed regional medical center serving lower Fairfield County in Connecticut, and Westchester County in New York. It is also a major academic affiliate of the Yale School of Medicine.

Before joining White Plains, Blenderman served as chief operating officer of New York Presbyterian Queens, and later as chief operating officer of New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist, both part of the $10 billion New York City-based health system.

He has a bachelor’s degree from St. John’s University, and earned a physician assistant’s degree at St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical. He also earned an MBA at Hofstra University.

Blenderman was a practicing physician assistant for more than seven years in critical care and cardiac surgery before transitioning into administrative roles with Northwell Health, where he spent nine years overseeing neuroscience and later cardiovascular and thoracic services.

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