Jill Garland Appointed Vice President of Development at Nyack Hospital

Nyack Hospital is pleased to announce the appointment of Jill Garland as Vice President, Development. 

In this role she will provide leadership for all of the Hospital’s annual and capital fund raising activities.  She will also serve as Executive Director of the Nyack Hospital Foundation, the institution’s formal development arm.

Ms. Garland has over 20 years of extensive experience as a fund raising professional.  Since 1996, she was Director of Development at Playwright Horizons, a major, award-winning New York City theater company.  In that role she successfully conceived, designed and implemented a $33 million capital campaign, introduced an annual series of major fund raising events, and put into place the people and systems necessary to generate significant corporate, foundation, government, and individual support.  Her previous experience includes roles as Managing Director, Naked Angels Theater Company, New York City; and in the Marketing/Education Department at Theatreworks/USA, New York City.  She has served as a consultant for Our Time, an organization devoted to providing arts experiences for kids who stutter, and the Blue Man Creativity Center, a private pre-school in lower Manhattan.

David H. Freed, President and CEO of Nyack Hospital said of Ms. Garland’s appointment, “Jill Garland is an accomplished professional with a demonstrated record of achievements in not-for-profit fund raising.  I am delighted to work with someone of her caliber as Nyack Hospital works to bring its Foundation activities to the next levels of excellence and success.”

Ms. Garland said “I am proud and pleased to join the talented leadership team of Nyack Hospital.  I look forward to working with the local and regional community to identify financial resources that will help realize of our institution’s ambitious, necessary endeavors.”

A resident of Dobbs Ferry, NY, Ms. Garland has a Bachelor of Arts in Theater from Empire State College/SUNY and has served as an adjunct professor or lecturer at various schools within New York University and in the MFA program at Brooklyn College.  She also has a long history of volunteerism at various not-for-profit companies including the Philadelphia and Westchester chapters of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and for the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

She can be reached at 845.348.2237.

Nyack Hospital is a 375-bed community acute care medical and surgical hospital located in Rockland County, NY.  Founded in 1895, it is a member of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System. For additional information, please visit our web site at www.nyackhospital.org.