Parent company of CT hospitals gets new CEO

Hartford Business Journal – Wednesday, October 1, 2025
By Greg Bordonaro

Northwell Health, which recently became the parent company of several Connecticut hospitals through its merger with Nuvance Health, has a new chief executive.

The New York-based health system said Wednesday that Dr. John D’Angelo has officially taken over as president and CEO, succeeding longtime leader Michael Dowling, who will step into an emeritus role after 23 years at the helm.

D’Angelo, an emergency medicine physician by training, has spent more than two decades in leadership at Northwell. He previously oversaw the system’s central region — six hospitals and hundreds of outpatient sites — and directed its COVID-19 response operations.

The leadership change comes on the heels of Northwell’s merger with Nuvance Health, which officially closed in May.

Under the deal, ownership of Danbury Hospital (including its New Milford campus), Norwalk Hospital and Sharon Hospital was transferred to Northwell.

The merged system now operates 28 hospitals across New York and Connecticut, with a workforce of some 104,000 and a combined operating budget of $22.6 billion. Northwell committed to investing at least $1 billion into the former Nuvance hospitals.

In a statement, D’Angelo said he plans to begin a listening tour across the system and emphasized expanding digital health services and patient access.

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