CEO
Riverside Community Care
Marsha Medalie is the CEO of Riverside Community Care, a behavioral health care and human services organization annually serving 40,000 people in Massachusetts and thousands more nationally and internationally through virtual behavioral health screenings, suicide prevention and consultation. Her experience includes many years as a mental health therapist and supervisor, executive leader, consultant and public policy advocate.
Medalie serves on the Board of the Massachusetts Association of Behavioral Healthcare (ABH) and has long been a member of ABH’s MassHealth Executive Team, a small group of CEOs representing providers with the State’s Medicaid leadership; she is also on the executive team, meeting with the state’s Department of Mental Health leadership. Medalie is an appointed member of the statewide Children’s Behavioral Health Advisory Committee, advocating on behalf of children and families and the organizations that support them. While most of her advocacy has been on the state level, Medalie has also testified on Capitol Hill before the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pension (HELP) Committee on behalf of behavioral health care providers.
Marsha’s legacy includes advocacy for access to high-quality behavioral health care for all who need it, as well as organizational leadership that inspires and nurtures both innovation and internal and external collaboration to best serve communities. One example of Marsha’s leadership in this regard is a unique collaboration between Riverside and Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, that resulted in Riverside establishing and operating a licensed outpatient center on the university campus to serve Lesley students and neighborhood residents, as well as the creation of the Riverside Scholars@Lesley program to promote training and employment of future behavioral health professionals.