The Hospital for Special Care in New Britain has promoted Lynn Ricci to senior vice president, chief operating officer and Paul Scalise to senior vice president medical affairs, chief of staff.
Ricci is responsible for the organizations strategic planning efforts as well as all aspects of daily operations of the hospital and its affiliates.
She led the development of the hospital’s new Autism Center and is a member of Governor Malloy’s Healthcare working group where she is participating on the task force to study the needs of individuals on the autism spectrum.
Ricci has over 20 years of healthcare management experience. She is an executive board member of the New Britain Academy for Health Professions and a board member of the Connecticut Alliance for Long Term Care. She joined Hospital for Special Care in 2007.
Dr. Scalise joined the hospital in 1993, and most recently served as senior vice president of medical affairs, a position he has held since 2010. Dr. Scalise will remain chief of medicine, including his role as chief of pulmonary medicine. In his new position as chief of staff he will be responsible for the overall direction of the medical staff, quality of care and patient safety.
Dr. Scalise developed the weaning unit at the Hospital for Special Care’s satellite within St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, and continues to be its medical director. He has been an associate professor of medicine at UConn since 2008.
Hospital for Special Care is one of the 10 largest, free-standing long-term acute care hospitals in the United States and the nation’s only long-term acute-care hospital serving adults and children. It has locations in New Britain and Hartford.
