NYC Health + Hospitals today announced that Sandra Sneed, MBA, FACHE has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull. She brings more than 20 years of senior leadership experience overseeing operations for hospitals across the country, and she has a strong record of expanding access to services while reducing wait times for patients. Her new position marks a return to NYC Health + Hospitals. She was born at NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens, and she began her career as an occupational therapist at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue and NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County. Sneed becomes CEO of Woodhull Hospital effective March 24. Woodhull Hospital’s current CEO Gregory Calliste will step down after over 9 years leading Woodhull Hospital and 33 years of service to the health system.

“We are grateful to Gregory Calliste for his many tremendous years of service to the health care system, both at Woodhull Hospital and his earlier roles at North Central Bronx and Kings County Hospitals, and I want to extend a warm welcome to Sandra Sneed as she joins NYC Health + Hospitals,” said NYC Health + Hospitals President and CEO Mitchell Katz, MD. “As someone who was born in our system and has worked in our system, she truly understands our mission to serve every New Yorker, no exceptions.”

“It has been an incredible privilege to lead NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull,” said NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull CEO Gregory Calliste MBA, MPH, FACHE. “The Woodhull team works tirelessly to provide good quality care to our patients in pursuit of our vision of being a model hospital and hospital of choice for North Brooklyn. The strength and dedication of our staff and trust and loyalty of our patients have continually inspired me. As I step into the next chapter of my life, I carry with me immense pride in what we’ve accomplished. I am also deeply grateful for the opportunity to have worked at NYC Health + Hospitals for over thirty-three years at several facilities serving many different communities.”
“I’m passionate about patient care, and everyone in the hospital contributes to providing high quality patient care – some directly and some indirectly,” said incoming NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull CEO Sandra Sneed, MBA, FACHE. “I feel privileged and very fortunate to have been selected to lead Woodhull and serve the community of Brooklyn.”

Sneed most recently served as the Chief Operating Officer of Memorial Regional Hospital in South Florida, a 700-bed level 1 trauma center. She collaborated with physician, nursing, and imaging leadership across that hospital to achieve Maternal Levels of Care – Level (4) Certification, the highest possible level, by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She oversaw an initiative to improve patient flow through the hospital, which reduced the time patients spent waiting in the Emergency Department for an inpatient bed by 46% in just over a year while also improving the rate of patient discharges and decreasing patients’ average length of stay. She also oversaw efforts to expand surgeries, leading to a 7% increase in case volume over one year.

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