JHF Board Welcomes New Board Members and Discusses Senior Care Models

The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) convened its Board of Trustees on April 7 for a forward-looking meeting focused on welcoming new Board members and discussions of innovative approaches to aging, inspired by global trends and emerging technologies.

The Board proudly welcomed nine new Trustees with extensive expertise in health care, public service, and finance: Stuart Altman, MA, PhD; Owen Cantor, DMD; Rachael Heisler, MPA; Jonas Johnson, MD; Mark Lewis, CPA; Steve Reis, MD; Rick Stafford, MPP; Adam Tobias, MD, MPH; Mary Esther Van Shura, EdD; and Todd Wolynn, MD, MMM. They join the returning Trustees Steve Irwin, JD; Emily Jaffe, MD, MBA; David Kalson, JD; Ellen Kessler; and Jim Rogal.

The Board reviewed and approved $690,000 in grants to support essential services affected by federal funding cuts.

The Board also hosted a panel discussion on “Longevity Hubs: Embracing Our Changing Demographics”—a concept inspired by recent JHF travel to Japan and insights from CES 2025 in Las Vegas. Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD, President and CEO of JHF, introduced the discussion, describing longevity hubs as “localized touchpoints for seniors blending healthcare, innovation, social strategies, and urban design—environments where older adults don’t just age, they thrive.”

Special guests Danielle Duplin, Co-Founder and Executive Director of AGENCY: Worldwide Innovation for Living Longer and Aging Better and Luke Yoquinto, Research Associate at the MIT AgeLab and Editor of Longevity Hubs shared strategies to bring a systems-level, optimistic, and human-centered lens to JHF’s work on supporting seniors and helping them thrive.

The meeting concluded with Dr. Feinstein presenting JHF’s 2025 goals. Goals span a focus on leveraging an environmental scan to bring more direct-to-consumer safety technology to health care, sparking a public awareness campaign on patient safety concerns for older women, launching the first statewide Age Friendly Nursing Home Action Community, expanding teen mental health services, and training hundreds of frontline healthcare workers through JHF’s statewide initiatives and regional fellowships.