Robert Glazer, a well-known health-care executive and long-time resident of Chappaqua now living in Mount Kisco, has been named to Open Door Family Medical Center’s Foundation Board.
Glazer has 40-plus years of health-care management experience. He spent more than 20 years as CEO for ENT and Allergy Associates (ENTA), the largest otolaryngology practice in the United States, growing it from a 12-physician practice with three offices in the New York metropolitan area to one with 250 physicians in 50 office locations. In this capacity, he was responsible for identifying and steering the practice’s overall strategic direction, with a key focus on continued growth through physician recruitment, mergers and acquisitions. Most recently, he founded Glazer Business Advisors, which provides strategic and business counseling to health-care organizations.Â
He also served as executive vice-president of Quality Medical Management Services USA (QMMS USA), a subsidiary of ENTA, which offers health-care consultancy services in the areas of medical staff operations, practice management, ancillary service revenue enhancement, compliance, records management and business applications. Prior to this, he held financial executive positions at New York Presbyterian Hospital and NYU Langone Medical Center.
Glazer holds a degree in Public Health Administration from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Â
For over 50 years, Open Door has provided accessible, high-quality health care and wellness services, regardless of a patient’s ability to pay. Open Door offers family medicine, dental services, behavioral health care, women’s health including obstetrics, vision services, insurance enrollment assistance, and much more. Open Door operates health centers in Ossining, Brewster, Mamaroneck, Mount Kisco, Sleepy Hollow, and Port Chester, and a dental site in Saugerties. Additionally, Open Door runs a mobile dental van and nine School-Based Health Centers in the Ossining, Port Chester, and Webutuck school districts.