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Kevin Dahill is president and CEO of the Suburban Hospital Alliance of New York State. SHANYS is the advocacy arm of the two regional hospital associations that Kevin Dahill oversees – the Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council on Long Island and the Northern Metropolitan Hospital Association in the Hudson Valley. These two associations represent nearly 50 hospitals, which serve about 25% of New York’s population. Mr. Dahill also serves as an executive vice president of the Healthcare Association of New York State.

Kevin Dahill assumed the leadership post of NSHC in 2002. Under his direction, the association, which represents Long Island's not-for-profit and public hospitals, has dramatically enhanced its presence among lawmakers, the media and the public and is truly the collective voice of Long Island's hospitals. Mr. Dahill is routinely sought for his expertise on a variety of health care issues such as: hospital economics and finance, health services planning, hospitals and community benefit, workforce issues, corporate compliance, quality and performance improvement issues and managed care practices.

In 2010, Mr. Dahill became president and CEO of the Northern Metropolitan Hospital Association located in Newburgh, New York. The conjoining of these two associations as SHANYS allows for more targeted and intense advocacy for the suburban hospitals on Long Island and in the lower Hudson Valley. Mr. Dahill now oversees these two metropolitan hospital associations, two of the largest in the state, and with his leadership and hospital policy expertise presents an even stronger, collective voice for all not-for-profit hospitals in these two regions. He imparts his health care administrative knowledge to numerous organizations and sits on a variety of health care task forces, including the Long Island Association, the Hauppauge Industrial Association and the Westchester County Association. In addition, he often serves in an advisory capacity to local, state and federal elected officials on matters related to health care legislation and policy development.

Prior to his appointment at the NSHC, Mr. Dahill served as president and CEO of the New York United Hospital in Port Chester, New York. Previously, he held a variety of administrative positions that spanned 25 years at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, before departing as senior vice president and general manager in 1994.

Mr. Dahill holds a Bachelor of Science in health care management from St. Peter's College (Jersey City, New Jersey) and a Master of Business Administration from Fordham University (New York, New York). He is a member of the American College of Healthcare Administrators and the American Association of Association Executives. He serves as adjunct professor of management at St. Peter's College and St. Joseph's College on Long Island.

Wendy D. Darwell is the vice president and chief operating officer of the Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council and Suburban Hospital Alliance of New York State. In this role, she is responsible for advocating the hospitals’ interests before the state and federal governments, providing membership services to Long Island’s hospitals, and managing the daily operations of the associations. She oversees New York State Department of Health-sponsored grant programs that assist uninsured consumers in enrolling in health insurance, provide regional coordination of population health activities and organize emergency preparedness efforts.

Prior to joining NSHC in 2007, Ms. Darwell served for seven years as chief of staff to the late U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, who represented portions of New York’s Hudson Valley, Southern Tier and Finger Lakes regions. In that capacity, she directed the congressman’s legislative, media and political operations and supervised the operation of his five offices in New York and Washington, D.C. From 1994 to 2000, she served in several legislative and communications positions on Rep. Hinchey’s staff, specializing in health care, appropriations and community development policy.

Ms. Darwell is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Healthcare Financial Management Association. She also sits on advisory committees for the LIU Post School of Health Professions and Nursing, the Stony Brook University Master of Health Administration Program and the Zarb School of Business at Hofstra University. She is an adjunct faculty member at St. Joseph’s College in Patchogue, New York. In 2011, she was appointed to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Medicaid Redesign Team workgroup on Program Streamlining and State/Local Responsibilities, which focused on reforming the state’s Medicaid enrollment and eligibility processes and bringing the system into compliance with federal regulations.

Ms. Darwell earned a Master of Business Administration from the Zarb School of Business at Hofstra University and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from American University.

Janine Logan is senior director of communications and population health for the Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council. Prior to this appointment, Ms. Logan served NSHC as editor of its publication, Hospital and Health News, the only regional health care trade publication of its kind in the area.

In her role, she coordinates marketing/communications initiatives for NSHC, ensuring that the appropriate messages about hospitals and health care policy are delivered and understood by such targeted audiences as the media, lawmakers, business and industry, government agencies, allied health associations and the public. Ms. Logan also oversees the Long Island Health Collaborative, the Population Health Improvement Program for the Long Island region. This initiative is funded by the New York State Department of Health.

She previously served as assistant director of public relations for South Oaks Hospital, a comprehensive behavioral health care facility, and its sister agency, Broadlawn Manor. Both are located on Long Island.

She was named one of Long Island’s 50 Most Influential Women in 2011 by Long Island Business News. In 2012, she received the Outstanding Association Achievement Award for health communications/education from the American Hospital Association’s A2E membership subgroup. She serves on a variety of regional and state advisory boards.

Ms. Logan holds a Master of Science in health communications from Boston University and a Bachelor of Science in communication arts from St. John's University. She is nationally accredited by the Public Relations Society of America in the practice of public relations – a distinction for which she must maintain continuing accreditation every three years.

Stacy Villagran is the senior director of health insurance programs. She manages the Community Advocates program, the Aged, Bind, Disabled Enrollment Program and the Medicare Telephone Assistors Program.

Ms. Villagran previously served as assistant vice president, community initiatives, Success by 6 Program, for the United Way of Long Island. This program is designed to help children achieve key academic, nutritional and social milestones by their sixth birthday. In her role with this program, she regularly interacted with BOCES superintendents to develop and implement a Success by 6 Teacher Survey for teachers in pre-kindergarten through first grade for the purpose of receiving teacher input to facilitate educators as a voice in the community.

She is the recipient of an Award of Excellence presented by the Center for Public Health and Health Policy Research at SUNY Stony Brook for the significant contributions she has made to the Suffolk County Minority Health Coalition and the Proud to Serve Award, presented by the Healthcare Association of New York State for her work with the uninsured population of Long Island.

In 2012, she was named one of the "40 Under 40" honorees by the Long Island Business News. She holds a Master of Arts in social policy from SUNY Empire State College and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from SUNY Stony Brook.