Huggins Hospital
Monika joined the Senior Leadership Team at Huggins Hospital in February of 2015. As Vice President of Strategy & Community Relations, she oversees strategic planning, communication, quality, risk, performance improvement, community health, population health, philanthropy and marketing as well as the customer relations, patient advocacy and patient experience initiatives. Monika serves as the Public Information Office (PIO) for Huggins Hospital as well as Carroll County.
Monika is the Chair of the Advisory Council for the Endowment for Health, a foundation dedicated to improving the health of New Hampshire's people. She is on the Board of Directors for the Eastern Lakes Region Housing Coalition in Wolfeboro. Monika is a member of the Public Health Leadership Council Executive Committee for Carroll County.
Prior to joining Huggins, Monika worked in communications for over a decade in a NH Seacoast hospital. She also worked as a journalist and a photojournalist for a daily newspaper in NH. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Studies with a Health Promotion Fellowship from Plymouth State University and her Master’s Degree in Strategic Communication Management from Concordia University – St. Paul.
Monika holds a certificate in Strategic Planning from the American Hospital Association (AHA) and is a member of the AHA’s Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development. She has presented, nationally, about ways organizations can successfully implement an agile strategic planning process with diverse input and organizationwide buy-in.
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Huggins Hospital
Huggins Hospital is a non-profit community hospital that endeavors to offer the best of two worlds - the warmth and friendliness of a small town and the technical expertise of modern medicine. Located in Wolfeboro, NH, we are the preferred provider of primary, secondary, and specialty health care services in the region. Huggins provides medical services to the region’s year-round population of 30,000 residents and approximately 120,000 seasonal residents and visitors who come from all over the world to enjoy the Lakes Region and the communities of: Alton, Brookfield, Effingham, Freedom, Madison, Moultonborough, New Durham, Ossipee, Sanbornville, Sandwich, Tamworth, Tuftonboro, and Wolfeboro. The hospital and our professional medical staff have a reputation for excellence in primary care, inpatient and outpatient surgery, medical imaging and diagnostics, gynecology, orthopedics, pediatrics, physical therapy, cardiac and occupational rehabilitation, and emergency services. The hospital also offers specialty services such as ear, nose & throat, urology, cardiology, audiology, and gastroenterology at the local community level. At Huggins Hospital, we are part of the community we serve. We know that we can only achieve our mission by working collaboratively with our community to offer high quality, cost-effective care. We therefore enlist the cooperation and participation of our community as an indispensable resource in our efforts to improve community health status through our health and healing services.