Adam Boll serves as senior vice president, Strategic Business Initiatives at Northwell Health. He is responsible for the development and operations of strategic business at Northwell including clinical joint ventures, anesthesia business and strategy, system perioperative operations, new business opportunities, and VIVO Health, which is Northwell’s retail, specialty and mail order pharmacy enterprise.
Adam is also focused on revenue and margin diversification, driving new and sustainable sources of revenue for the health system and the growth of strategic business segments. Adam has been with Northwell Health for the past 17 years and serves on several of its joint venture and business boards.
Under Adam’s leadership, VIVO Health has filled over 800,000 prescriptions across its 11 retail locations, mail-order, and specialty pharmacies. The company provides patients with traditional outpatient pharmacy services in addition to population health management, PBM services, and telehealth programs.
Northwell’s clinical joint venture network includes clinical businesses such as urgent care, ambulatory surgery, and outpatient dialysis, amongst others.
Since Adam began work in the strategic venture space in 2014, he has been instrumental in the start-up and growth of Northwell’s urgent care enterprise in partnership with GoHealth Urgent Care, which today spans almost 70 locations across the metropolitan New York area.
Additionally, Adam has played a key role in the growth and expansion of the Health System’s ambulatory surgery network which now performs over 70,000 surgeries annually. Under his guidance, the system’s outpatient and home kidney dialysis network, in partnership with DaVita kidney care, now reaches across 17 locations.
Previously, Adam held several leadership roles at Northwell, including vice president of ambulatory services, assistant vice president of perioperative services, amongst other administrative and business responsibilities.
Adam completed Northwell Health’s Administrative Fellowship program after transitioning from full time clinical practice where he was a physician assistant specializing in orthopedic surgery and emergency medicine.
Adam holds a bachelor’s degree with a major in physician assistant studies, from Hofstra University, a Master of Public Administration from New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service and is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Adam has been committed to community service throughout his professional career and volunteers at his local fire department, which he has done for the past 24 years, having previously held the rank of Chief. Adam also serves on the advisory board to Hofstra University’s School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies.
What advice would you give other business leaders?
“Nothing is out of reach or impossible. Success is ultimately derived through adaptation, perseverance, grit and passion.
“Everything doesn’t work on the first try, and the ability to consistently learn and grow from failures or false starts only makes future success that much stronger. There is no substitute for hard work and perseverance. Have passion in the work that you do and use that passion to drive you forward and grow yourself into a better leader.
“Relationships and networks are important and don’t underestimate their power or relevance. Don’t forget your past, the good and the bad, and use your experiences to influence and grow those around you. Find balance in your professional life and dedicate time to those things outside of work that are meaningful to you.”
