Donna E.M. Bailey is Chief Integrated Health Services Officer and leads PHMC’s physical, behavioral, mental health and community engagement portfolios. In this role, she oversees PHMC’s health services, including primary health care, family planning, disease management, homeless and social services; behavioral health services, including inpatient, outpatient and residential treatment programs for individuals with substance use and co-occurring disorders; community engagement services, including programming designed as an alternative to incarceration and services for homeless and special populations; and community mental health services, including a continuum of school and community-based trauma-informed behavioral health services for children, youth and families.
Included in this portfolio are a number of PHMC programs, PHMC’s Health Network of federally qualified health centers and PHMC subsidiary organizations including The Joseph J. Peters Institute, The Center for Autism, and Interim House, Inc.
Donna previously served as the Chief Operating Officer and held other leadership roles at Community Behavioral Health (CBH). CBH is a nonprofit 501c (3) corporation contracted by the City of Philadelphia to manage the delivery of behavioral health services for more than 700,000 eligible Medicaid recipients of Philadelphia County.
Donna has anchored her career in human services as an advocate for equity and social justice for more than 20 years. Prior to her time at CBH, Donna was the Assistant Managing Director for the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Opportunity and worked for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as the Housing Director for the Department of Human Services. She also served as the Assistant Managing Director in the Office of Supportive Housing for Philadelphia County. During her tenure with the City, she facilitated major housing initiatives yielding 2,500 new housing options for low-income and disabled Philadelphians and created the City of Philadelphia’s Housing Clearinghouse unit providing housing resources and service linkages to more than 1,200 individuals exiting the City’s homeless and behavioral health systems.
Donna is a proud Philadelphia native. She earned a master’s degree in Education from the University of Pennsylvania, a master’s degree in Business Administration from Pennsylvania State University, and bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College.