Diane Kelly, Greenwich Hospital president, plans to retire

After more than 40 years in health care, Greenwich Hospital President Diane P. Kelly, announced that she plans to retire at the end of 2024. She became president of Greenwich Hospital in the midst of the Covid Pandemic, taking the role in June 2020 and became the chief nursing executive for Yale New Haven Health in 2022.

“During my five years working with Diane, I couldn’t have asked for a better partner,” said Greenwich Hospital Board Chair W. Robert Berkley, Jr. in a prepared statement. “She led our hospital during the height of COVID, deftly guiding us through some of the most challenging days, yet never lost site of the clinical growth plan for Greenwich Hospital, which has progressed tremendously under her forward-thinking leadership. Diane’s commitment to bringing new technologies, programs and physicians to Greenwich has enabled patients to access services not typically available in a community hospital setting. She has set Greenwich Hospital on a trajectory of growth that will continue for generations to come.”

Kelly rose through the ranks as a staff nurse at the Berkshire Medical Center before assuming clinical and leadership roles across disciplines and departments. She came to Greenwich Hospital in 2018.

“It has been an honor to lead the Greenwich Hospital team and to work in collaboration with extraordinary men and women dedicated to caring for those who trust us with their health care,” said Kelly in a statement. “It is a true privilege to have served on the Yale New Haven Health leadership team. I am also tremendously grateful that I have had the opportunity to be part of the Yale New Haven Nursing Division, working alongside the finest nurses I have known in my 40-year career. Health care has been not just a job, but an intrinsic part of who I am.”