Penn State Health selects Yost and Silvis to lead Value-Based Care and Population Health Department

Penn State Health has appointed Rachel Yost to the newly created position of vice president and administrative lead for the Department of Value-Based Care and Population Health. Dr. Matthew Silvis will serve as the physician leader of the department. Together, they will work to strengthen the health system’s delivery of accessible, patient-centered care.

The expansion of the department is a key step in Penn State Health’s efforts to integrate its hospitals and outpatient practices and transition from growth to integration and ultimately transformation.

“We are working to ensure that all Penn State Health patients have more convenient and seamless access to our continuum of care, that we are focused on helping patients prevent and manage their health conditions, and we consistently deliver the kind of experience that matters most to patients and providers,” said Deborah Addo, Penn State Health chief operating officer. “Achieving these goals will position Penn State Health as the provider of choice.”

Yost joined the health system in early 2020 as the senior director of value-based operations. Prior to that, she worked at Highmark leading key initiatives as the director of product strategy and development and as a manager and health strategy consultant focused on population health management. She also worked in the pharmaceutical industry for subsidiaries of Johnson & Johnson and Merck-Schering Plough. She earned a Master of Business Administration at Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pa., and a Bachelor of Science in biology and biochemistry at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

Silvis will continue his clinical and administrative roles at Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine as he takes on this new one as physician leader of the Department of Value-Based Care and Population Health. He has been with Penn State Health since 2007. A graduate of the College of Medicine, Silvis practiced wilderness medicine in rural Wyoming before completing a fellowship in primary care sports medicine at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. He also serves as the division chief for primary care sports medicine at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and as a professor of family and community medicine and professor of orthopaedics and rehabilitation at Penn State College of Medicine.

In addition, Silvis is the vice chair of clinical operations for the Department of Family and Community Medicine and serves as the team physician for the Hershey Bears hockey team and Hershey High School.

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