On September 29, Janine Logan, MS, APR will be the guest speaker at LIMBA (Long Island Metro Business Action), located at Candlelight Diner, 56 Veterans Memorial Highway in Commack, starting at 8:30 a.m. The topic will be “Hospitals, Health, and Industry — Partners in Achieving a Healthier Long Island.”

Ms. Logan is Vice President of Communications and Population Health for the Suburban Hospital Alliance of New York State and its two regional entities — the Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council (NSHC) on Long Island and the Northern Metropolitan Hospital Association (NorMet) in the Hudson Valley. She oversees and coordinates marketing and communications initiatives for these three associations, ensuring that the appropriate messages about hospitals and healthcare policy are delivered and understood by such targeted audiences and the media, lawmakers, business and industry, government agencies, allied health associations and the public.

She also directs the Long Island Health Collaborative (LIHC), a population health-based initiative coordinated by the NSHC. The LIHC is a coalition of over 300 organizations, health plans, academic institutions, schools, libraries, physician associations, and several businesses. She is also an adjunct professor of Community Health at the State University of New York at Farmingdale.

She holds a Master’s degree in Health Communications from Boston University and a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Arts from St. John’s University. Her public relations and marketing work has been recognized by regional and national peer organizations, especially for her efforts in the areas of outreach and awareness. In 2012, she was awarded the Outstanding Association Achievement Award for excellence in healthcare communication from the Association of Association Educators (A2E), a subgroup of the American Hospital Association. She has earned several regional awards for her health promotion campaigns and communications initiatives.

Ms. Logan frequently lectures and writes about health policy, legislation and regulation, population health, public health and how the power of the narrative distills these complex and abstract concepts into the understandable. Accredited by the Public Relations Society of America in the practice of public relations, she serves on a variety of state, regional and local task forces.

For more information about upcoming LIMBA programs, visit https://limba.net/.

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About LIMBA
Since 1968, LIMBA (Long Island Metro Business Action) has been Long Island’s catalyst for economic investment and improvement, sponsoring lively breakfast forums featuring Long Island business activists and government officials. Its mission is to promote and address issues that affect the quality of life on Long Island. For more information, call (631) 757-1698 or visit www.limba.net.