Yale School of Management - Alumni Leaders

"My Yale SOM experience has been of enormous benefit to me, both personally and professionally. Yale SOM gave me a solid 'knowledge base’ that includes not only quantitative analysis and decision-making tools, but also valuable skills in teamwork and leadership. My Yale SOM classmates continue to be great personal friends and terrific sources of information and inspiration."

Allison Silvers has considerable expertise in long-term care program development and policy. She currently serves as Director of Strategic Initiatives for Village Care of New York, improving and expanding services for both seniors and people living with HIV/AIDS. Her successes have included: a state demonstration to revise nursing home care; expansion to provide formerly-government-run Adult Protective Services, and approval for the first AIDS assisted living program in New York State.

Ms. Silvers also served as the Senior Policy Coordinator for Long-Term Care for the New York State Commission on Health Facilities in the 21st Century. In that role, Ms. Silvers defined opportunities to "right-size" long-term care on a statewide basis, helping to grow assisted living and adult day health services in underserved areas. Prior to her position with Village Care, Ms. Silvers served as the director of planning and program development for Jewish Home and Hospital. During her tenure there, Ms. Silvers developed a "naturally-occurring retirement community" program, a PACE program expansion, and a Medicare coordinated care demonstration program (one of only fifteen selected in the nation).

Ms. Silvers’ previous experience includes five years in acute care management, including overseeing financial re-deployment and quality improvement projects for Mount Sinai Medical Center, during their "re-engineering" efforts. Prior to that, she served as assistant administrator for Mount Sinai’s four transplant programs, drawing on over four years of hospital consulting experience.

Ms. Silvers holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a Bachelor of Science from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She has lectured for Hunter College, New York University, the American Society on Aging, and numerous other organizations, as well as serving on task forces for the Alzheimer’s Association and the New York Association of Homes and Services for the Aged. Ms. Silvers lives in New York City with her two children and too many pets.