Deborah Rose
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Deborah Rose, PsyD

Associate Principal

Health Management Associates

New York, NY

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Phone (212) 575-5929

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Dr. Deborah Rose is a licensed clinical psychologist with demonstrated success designing and scaling new behavioral health initiatives. She has extensive experience overseeing correctional health providers, social service agencies, behavioral health centers, care coordination programs, supported housing systems and services for unhoused populations.

At Health Management Associates, Dr. Rose is the assistant director of behavioral health and integrated systems to the California Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment Act (CARE Act). In this role, she supports statewide training and technical assistance on the development and implementation of an outpatient civil commitment law for people living with serious mental illness. She also serves as a coach and trainer to county correctional facilities for the implementation and expansion of Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) in jails for people with opioid use disorders.

Dr. Rose has broad executive and clinical experience with a variety of underserved populations and has held leadership positions in community-based agencies and carceral settings. Before joining HMA, she served as deputy chief operating officer at ICL, where she provided administrative leadership to a team of 1,200 employees across 65 sites throughout New York City. Dr. Rose directed the use of $3 million of annual Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funding for supportive housing services. She also authored and received multiple private, state, and federal grants, and she secured millions of dollars in funding to support food security, integrated care, and evidence-based programs.

Dr. Rose has strived to improve access to and delivery of trauma-informed and person-centered services for adults living with mental illness, substance use disorders, co-occurring conditions, and justice involvement. Her work includes serving as the director of behavioral health – health and community-based services for Healthfirst under the Medicaid Health and Recovery Plan. In that role, she served as a lead for New York State’s only behavioral value-based payment pilot program, resulting in more than $1 million in Medicaid savings.

Earlier in her career, while at Bellevue Hospital, Dr. Rose managed Kendra’s Law, an assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) program in New York City. In her previous role as deputy director of behavioral health, she oversaw services spanning ten jails within the Rikers Island complex and the Manhattan Detention Center.

Dr. Rose earned a doctorate in clinical psychology and a master’s degree in applied psychology, both from Long Island University. She also earned a bachelor’s degree from Adelphi University in New York.