Nurse-Family Partnership NewsLink Spring/Summer 2018 | Page 7

Benilda (Benny) Samuels

chief operations officer

Benilda (Benny) Samuels has been promoted to chief operating officer at Nurse-Family Partnership National Service Office. Samuels has served as acting COO since September, and was previously the chief marketing communications officer.

"Benny is a strategic leader that has been a guiding voice to Nurse-Family Partnership to be smarter, more innovative and always dedicated to our number one metric of success - being better able to reach moms in poverty," said Frank Daidone, president and CEO of Nurse-Family Partnership. "Her vision to drive our business operations with a deep understanding of our nurses' needs will be crucial to our ability to dramatically serve more families in poverty."

Benny will lead operations and growth enrollment initiatives to double the number of first-time moms and babies served by Nurse-Family Partnership. She will advance Nurse-Family Partnership's business development strategy and oversee program implementation, nursing, information technology, marketing and communications, planning and analytics and regional expansion. In addition, Benny will strengthen partnerships and promote efficiencies to increase Nurse-Family Partnership's capacity to reach more moms and babies.

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We've launched a Nurse-Family Partnership blog -- Let's Be Frank.

Our President and CEO, Frank Daidone, has a passion for writing and wants to share the stories, the outcomes, the challenges of overcoming poverty and more in this monthly blog. The blog will help to increase awareness about Nurse-Family Partnership. Join and share the conversation.

let's be frank

Nurse-Family Partnership blog

Prior to my appointment as President and CEO, I began with Nurse-Family Partnership National Service Office as chief operating officer and traveled the country spending time with our nurses. The stories I heard and the home visits I saw moved me in a way that I knew I needed to share these experiences. This blog is that place. The stories found here... Continued