HELP AT HOME, INC. Help at Home announced the appointment of Christina Jenkins, MD, to its board of directors. Dr. Christina Jenkins, MD is a venture investor and strategic adviser who uses technology and trusted relationships to improve health, at scale. She is a Venture Partner at Phoenix Venture Partners, leading investments in seed and early-stage digital health and hardware-enabled platform companies used for diagnosis or monitoring.
Dr. Jenkins serves on the boards of several venture-backed companies, is a board advisor to Independence Health Group and advises C-suite health care leaders in health system redesign, integrated care strategies and clinical value improvement. Previously, she was the founding CEO of OneCity Health. There, she led a $1.2 billion effort to accelerate value-based payment readiness for 1 million low-income New Yorkers through effecting novel tech platforms and integrated care models across the care continuum.
She was a Bloomberg appointee to the board of NYC Health and Hospitals, serving as board chair of its Quality and Performance Committee, and a member of the Quality Committee of Healthfirst, a 1.2 million member health plan. Dr. Jenkins is a former practicing internist trained at Mount Sinai in New York, where she served as a clinical instructor in medicine. She is a member of the Kauffman Fellows, a global leadership network of venture capitalists.
