Lynn Ricci, who has been president and CEO of the Hospital for Special Care (HSC) in New Britain since last fall, added the role of president and CEO of Center of Special Care Inc. (CSC), the parent organization of HSC, on Oct. 1.
She succeeds Dr. John Votto, who retired after 19 years as CEO of the parent company. He had retired Oct. 1, 2015, as CEO of the hospital, after which Ricci became CEO to launch the leadership succession plan.
Ricci is the hospital’s fourth CEO in 75 years. Since joining the specialty care hospital in 2007, she has served as senior vice president and chief operating officer from 2011 to 2015 and as vice president of administration from 2009 to 2011.
In 2014, Ricci led the planning and opening of the Maximilian E. & Marion O. Hoffman Foundation Outpatient Center, which handles more than 30,000 outpatient visits each year across a spectrum of chronic and rehabilitative conditions, including spinal cord and brain injury, neuromuscular disease (muscular dystrophy and ALS-Lou Gehrig’s disease), pulmonary disease and rehabilitation.
She also spearheaded development of the Autism Center at Hospital for Special Care in 2012, providing diagnostic, assessment and therapy services for children and adolescents in an outpatient setting. HSC in December 2015 then launched the autism in-patient unit, one of only 10 designated units in the country that provide inter-disciplinary treatment to meet the complex needs of children who require intensive treatment for aggression, self-injury, or severely impaired functioning which threatens their or others’ safety in the community, according to a news release.
