Adam B. Scott Named New President and CEO of Hebrew SeniorLife

Hebrew SeniorLife, an integrated, seven-campus system of health care, housing, research, and teaching that is committed to redefining the experience of aging and directly serves more than 4,500 older adults in Greater Boston daily, announces the appointment of Adam B. Scott as its new president and chief executive officer.

Scott is an experienced executive and former CEO with operating experience in health care services and senior housing. Most recently, he served at Point32Health, first as senior vice president of health care services and then as president of diversified businesses.

Scott will join Hebrew SeniorLife in June, succeeding Louis J. Woolf, who is retiring as president and CEO.

“We are pleased to welcome Adam Scott as the new president and CEO of Hebrew SeniorLife,” said Board Chair Richard J. Henken. “Adam is an accomplished leader who has dedicated his career to leading health care organizations and serving his community through volunteer board work in both senior housing and health care.”

“It is an honor to join Hebrew SeniorLife, which has been serving the health care and housing needs of older adults for more than a century,” said Scott. “To be part of such an illustrious organization at a time when both the health care and housing needs of seniors in our community have never been greater is important work. It is work I look forward to leading with the great team here at Hebrew SeniorLife every day. I also look forward to serving our communities with the continued tradition of tikkun olam — healing the world — with purpose and commitment.”

Scott is passionate about championing healthy aging at the intersection of housing and health care. At Point32Health, he provided executive leadership for a portfolio of five health care services businesses generating $450 million in revenue and $35 million in operating income.

Prior to the creation of Point32Health through the merger of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan, Scott was senior vice president of health care services at Tufts Health Plan. There, he provided executive leadership of key operational functions including population health management, pharmacy and clinical operations, behavioral health, network contracting and strategy, and medical cost savings portfolio management for Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial members in Massachusetts and throughout New England.

Before Point32Health and Tufts Health Plan, he served at Aetna in several roles, including as president and CEO of ActiveHealth Management, Aetna’s population health management company, and vice president of clinical operations, where he oversaw 2,700 employees serving more than 10 million Aetna members in all 50 states.

Earlier in his career, Scott worked at an oncology startup company that was sold to McKesson and as a consultant to hospitals and health systems at both Kaufman Hall and Cap Gemini Ernst and Young. 

Scott received a master of business administration from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a bachelor of arts from Washington University in St. Louis.

Scott is currently a board member of 2Life Communities and co-chair of 2Life Opus Communities, and has served on the boards of Integra Partners, Health Plans Inc., MedWatch, Trestle Tree, Clever Care Health Plan, Good Measures, CarePartners of Connecticut, HealthCare Administrative Solutions, Inc., Harvard Pilgrim Institute and Harvard Medical School Department of Population Medicine, and the Boston Jewish Music Festival.

About Hebrew SeniorLife
Hebrew SeniorLife, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, is a national senior services leader uniquely dedicated to rethinking, researching, and redefining the possibilities of aging. Hebrew SeniorLife cares for more than 4,500 seniors a day across campuses throughout Greater Boston. Locations include: Hebrew Rehabilitation Center-Boston and Hebrew Rehabilitation Center-NewBridge in Dedham; NewBridge on the Charles, Dedham; Orchard Cove, Canton; Simon C. Fireman Community, Randolph; Center Communities of Brookline, Brookline; Jack Satter House, Revere; and Leyland Community, Dorchester. Founded in 1903, Hebrew SeniorLife also conducts influential research into aging at the Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, which has a portfolio of more than $98 million, making it one of the largest gerontological research facilities in the U.S. in a clinical setting. It also trains more than 500 geriatric care providers each year. For more information about Hebrew SeniorLife, follow us on our blog, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and LinkedIn.