ChristianaCare named Jenn Schwartz to succeed Janice Nevin as CEO on Sept. 1
Nevin is retiring after 12 years as CEO of Delaware's largest health system.
ChristianaCare has named its chief strategy officer Jenn Schwartz its next CEO. Schwartz will succeed Janice Nevin, who is retiring after 12 years leading Delaware’s largest health system, on Sept. 1.
Schwartz, a lawyer by training, has been leading the nonprofit ChristianaCare’s efforts to expand its ambulatory care network, including in Southeastern Pennsylvania, where the organization last year acquired five outpatient offices from the bankrupt Crozer Health.
The executive has also been instrumental in the development of ChristianaCare’s micro-hospitals. One of them is already open in West Grove, Chester County, at the site of the former Jennersville Hospital. Another location is under construction in Aston.
Schwartz joined ChristianaCare as chief legal officer in 2018. Before that, she worked at South Jersey’s Lourdes Health System, which Virtua Health acquired in 2019.
Nevin is a physician who started at ChristianaCare in 2002 as chair of family and community medicine. She was the system’s chief medical officer when she took the CEO position in 2014.
During Nevin’s tenure, ChrisitianaCare acquired Union Hospital in Elkton, Md., in 2020, considered buying Crozer Health from for-profit Prospect Medical Holdings in 2022, and engaged in preliminary talks on a merger with Virtua Health. Talks with Virtua ended without a deal.
ChristianaCare, which had $3.3 billion in revenue in fiscal 2025, has announced several expansion projects in Delaware over the past year, including a new rehabilitation hospital and new a health campus in Georgetown.
Effective April 1, ChristianaCare moved its pediatric affiliation from Nemours to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
