Diana Franchitto, MBA, FASCHE, is president & CEO of HopeHealth, and has been a strong and leading voice in hospice, palliative, and home health care for more than a decade. Serving Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts, HopeHealth is one of the largest nonprofit hospice, palliative care, and advanced illness organizations in New England. The HopeHealth family of services includes HopeHealth Hospice & Palliative Care, HopeHealth Dementia & Alzheimer’s Services, HopeHealth PediPal, and the HopeHealth Hulitar Hospice Center.
At HopeHealth, Diana facilitated an academic affiliation to become the major teaching affiliate for hospice and palliative medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. In addition, she established palliative care partnerships with hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, accountable care entities, and payers in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Diana holds an MBA and a B.S. in Business Administration from Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. A Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, Ms. Franchitto serves on the board of directors of NPHI (Chair), Rhode Island Quality Institute (immediate past chair), Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce, CareLink (Vice Chair), and Delta Dental of Rhode Island.