New Staff and Accounting Contractor Join JHF

Sara Nelis (left) and Sarah Pesi

Sara Nelis will join the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) in May as the new project manager for the PA PQC and the Pittsburgh: A Safer Childbirth City initiative. Nelis is currently completing her MSN and is a licensed nurse. She is an experienced maternal child healthcare professional and joins JHF after having worked at West Penn Hospital as an assistant nurse manager in their labor and delivery unit. She is a certified childbirth educator and doula, and she also previously worked at Magee-Womens Hospital. Nelis received her BS from the University of Pittsburgh and is currently finishing up her MSN at Capella University.

Sarah Pesi has been with JHF since January 2021, but she recently moved into a full-time position as a policy associate supporting the Adolescent Behavioral Health Initiative and patient safety programs. Pesi has advanced JHF's teen mental health programs – including guiding the PA Youth Advocacy Network teens to author Pennsylvania's first ever teen mental health awareness day last year. Pesi earned a master of science in public policy & management with a concentration in public policy analysis from Carnegie Mellon University, and a BA in public policy studies and a minor in social services administration from Chatham University.

Mary Ann P. Mantick began in April as an independent accounting contractor for JHF. Mantick has 31 years of accounting and bookkeeping experience. She most recently worked as a fiscal analyst with the Allegheny County Department of Public Works. Mantick attended the Community College of Allegheny County.