About Dr. Healy
Dr. Elaine Healy has been actively involved in patient care, medical education, physician leadership and health-care advocacy throughout her career. She is board certified in internal and geriatric medicine and is a sought-after expert in matters of aging, elder care, nursing home medicine, dementia, medical ethics, end-of-life/hospice care as well as medical-legal concerns. Dr. Healy has often been cited in national and regional press and trade outlets and has been a frequent guest on television and talk radio shows; she has given numerous presentations at medical education conferences and has held leadership positions in state and national medical organizations. As a nursing home medical director in New Rochelle, New York, Dr. Healy was at ground zero when COVID-19 devastated these facilities in the early days of the pandemic; she was the first to sound the alarm about the notorious March 25th mandate that ordered nursing homes to admit COVID-infected from the hospitals and has published numerous Op-Eds on this and related topics. Dr. Healy gave the first national presentation on the management of COVID infections in the nursing home setting and co-authored the first published article on this subject in a national peer-reviewed medical journal; she served on NY State’s COVID Nursing Home Task Force and continues to advise and educate nursing home clinicians about this complex topic.
Publications
Dr. Healy has contributed to scientific research, and has used her expertise to address the crisis we are facing in supporting the geriatric community.
Media Presence
Dr. Healy has been invited to speak on a variety of news and talk shows, podcasts, and as an expert at conferences.