Yuvo Health Welcomes Three New Executive Team Members

Yuvo Health has named Ami Patel, M.D., as chief population health officer (CPHO), and Jorge Stevenson as chief financial officer (CFO). Based in New York City, where Yuvo Health is headquartered, the pair reports to CEO Cesar Herrera, who launched the company in 2021 with a fully BIPOC founding team. Additionally, Natasha Patel joins as head of People.

In less than three years, the company has grown from four co-founders to a more than 50-member remote team.
 
“As accomplished leaders in their respective fields, Ami, Jorge, and Natasha exemplify everything our company represents and strives to be,” Herrera said. “But most importantly, they are deeply connected and committed to scaling our mission and serving our Community Health Center partners.”
 
An accomplished healthcare leader with a passion for driving innovative population-health initiatives, Patel oversees data-driven, decision-making processes that lead to impactful, accessible, and equitable healthcare solutions. She joins from HealthCare Partners, a healthcare-management delivery system that contracts with health plans, where she was senior vice president of Population Health. With a career spanning more than 20 years, Patel previously was chief program officer for Morris Heights Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center that provides primary care, specialty services, dental, and behavioral health services in the Bronx, serving thousands of patients.
 
“I joined the Yuvo Health leadership team because they share my belief that every individual deserves the opportunity to live a healthy, fulfilling life,” Patel stated. “Together, we will strive to empower and uplift health centers and communities, creating a world where well-being is a fundamental human right, not a privilege.”
 
A skilled finance leader with more than 15 years of experience in finance, strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and business development in the financial and technology industries, Stevenson has served as a board member and advisor for numerous organizations. Before joining Yuvo Health as its CFO, he was vice president of Strategic Finance at Bestow, an end-to-end digital infrastructure startup that powers the life-insurance industry. Additionally, Stevenson is an adjunct professor for graduate students at New York University, teaching finance for marketing decisions and competitive strategy. He earned his MBA with honors from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, a certificate in Disruptive Strategy from Harvard Business School, and a BBA with honors in business administration and economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
 
“Yuvo Health is such an inspiring, mission-driven industry pioneer with a talented team that truly understands the challenges that community health centers face,” Stevenson said. “The company is transforming how primary care and other key healthcare services are delivered to underserved communities, and I’m excited to join them on their journey in making a transformational impact in our society.”
 
Last fall, Yuvo Health announced a $20.2 million Series A financing round, enabling the company to further scale from New York to Ohio, while transitioning to accept full-risk arrangements on behalf of its FQHC partners. In conjunction with the funding news, Yuvo Health added several new FQHCs, doubling its original number announced in 2022, which now reaches more than 150,000 patients.
 
Launched in January 2021, Yuvo Health was founded by a fully BIPOC team with shared first-hand experiences of the power of quality care, and a common goal to bring fair, quality care to underserved communities. Yuvo Health is a partner to health centers, helping them gain an advantage in the world of value-based care. With Yuvo Health addressing their needs, health centers are gaining a meaningful seat at the table in value-based care by leveraging new revenue opportunities without risk, scalable infrastructure backed by a team, and a village of partners committed to their success. Currently, the company serves community health centers and independent physician associations in the Northeast and Midwest, with plans to expand to more markets soon.