
FOUNDER AND CEO
Jessie Israel, RN, BSN, MSN
Jessie is a nurse and healthcare leader who has spent more than 20 years building programs that improve outcomes and make complex systems work better for people. Her experience spans case management, home health, behavioral health, palliative care, population health and value based care.
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Jessie began her career caring for medically complex patients. She has since led organizations, managed programs serving more than 250,000 people, overseen multimillion dollar healthcare portfolios and built partnerships among health plans, hospitals, physicians and community providers.
Her work includes care management models that reduced hospital readmissions across multiple states, generated millions of dollars in shared savings, created patient centered programs that expanded nationally and helped build, grow and sell a behavioral health organization.
At Journey of Care, Jessie brings together clinical leadership, operational experience and a belief that every system, contract and technology should ultimately make life better for the person receiving care. She built the company to be deeply personal and a credible, accountable partner within a larger system of care.
