Maria Foschi

Maria Foschi is the Assistant Vice President of Information Services at Virtua Health, bringing over 20 years of experience in healthcare IT. She is responsible for technology financials, processes, and planning, and has previously served as the interim CIO. She champions integrating process improvement tools like Six Sigma into technology implementations.

Maria finds deep satisfaction in projects that have a direct and positive impact on the community. She expressed that it was highly rewarding for her team, which is not typically patient-facing, to personally connect with and assist thousands of patients during a critical public health initiative.

Her IT team once made over 10,400 phone calls to patients to resolve duplicate COVID-19 vaccine appointments, freeing up 5,000 slots for the community.