Arthur Gianelli is the Chief Transformation Officer for the Mount Sinai Health System and President of Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital.  He has worked for the Mount Sinai Health System since February of 2014. 

As Chief Transformation Officer, Mr. Gianelli partners with leaders across the Mount Sinai Health System to improve patient experience, create educational programs for leaders and staff, promote the deployment of lean process improvement and daily management methodologies, and advance strategies to transform Mount Sinai into an equitable and anti-racist organization.   Among many accomplishments in this role, Mr. Gianelli has worked with colleagues at Mount Sinai to achieve gains in patient satisfaction across key clinical service lines and create several distinct Learning Academies for employees of the Mount Sinai Health System, most notably the Continuous Improvement Academy, which provides in-depth training in lean process improvement methods.

As President of Mount Sinai Morningside, Mr. Gianelli leads one of eight hospitals in the Mount Sinai Health System.   During his tenure as its President, Mr. Gianelli has helped lead the hospital’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic; introduced a lean daily management system; driven improvements in patient experience, quality, and safety measures; shepherded a transformative capital improvement plan; and worked with School of Medicine leadership to grow clinical programs.  Under Mr. Gianelli’s leadership, Mount Sinai Morningside earned a third-place designation in the national Innovator Award Program organized by the editors of Healthcare Innovations for the use of its daily management and incident command center during the COVID-19 pandemic; was recognized as 26^th among the World’s Smartest Hospitals by Newsweek Magazine; achieved HIMSS 7 status; and saw its Cardiology and Adult Cardiac Surgery programs ranked 41^st in the United States as determined by U.S. News and World Report.

From 2006 through 2014, Mr. Gianelli served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Nassau Health Care Corporation (NHCC), a public benefit corporation that runs the Nassau University Medical Center and a nursing home, and it co-operates the Long Island FQHC, Inc.  Under Mr. Gianelli's leadership, NHCC earned recognition for stabilizing its finances, improving quality of care and patient outcomes, and modernizing and expanding its services and facilities.

Prior to joining NHCC, Mr. Gianelli held senior executive positions over a 10-year period for two local governments on Long Island. He was Deputy County Executive for Budget and Finance for Nassau County, and Director of Operations for the Town of North Hempstead.  He was responsible for leading fiscal turnarounds in both municipalities.

Mr. Gianelli currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Greater New York Hospital Association, Health Leads, HealthIx, and the Mount Sinai Health Partners IPA.  He has previously served on the Executive Committees of Healthfirst and America’s Essential Hospitals, and he was a member or Regional Policy Board 2 of the American Hospital Association.  He has earned numerous professional, civic, and teaching awards, including the Healthcare Leaders of New York’s 2021 Award of Distinction, which is given in recognition of sustained and outstanding contributions to the advancement of healthcare administration as a profession.  Mr. Gianelli was recently recognized by Becker’s Healthcare as one of thirty-two “Inspiring Chief Transformation Officers in Healthcare”, and he was acknowledged by Crain’s New York Business as a “Notable Health Care Leader.”

Mr. Gianelli earned a Bachelor’s Degree in History from St. John's University, a Master of Arts Degree in Political Science from Brown University, a Master in Business Administration Degree from Dowling College, and a Master in Public Health Degree from Columbia University.  He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.  Mr. Gianelli teaches “Issues in Hospital Management” as well as “Managed Care and Healthcare Reform” to graduate students at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.