FDU Joins The Healthcare Transformation Consortium
October 6, 2025 — Fairleigh Dickinson University has become the first non-healthcare member to join the Healthcare Transformation Consortium (HTC), a collaborative of New Jersey-based independent health systems that share their expertise to improve access to high-quality healthcare for employees and dependents while reducing costs. Members of the consortium include Atlantic Health, CentraState Healthcare System, Holy Name Medical Center, Hunterdon Healthcare, RWJ Barnabas Health, Saint Peter’s Healthcare System and Valley Health System.
The member organizations are collectively providing medical benefits to more than 120,000 employees and families in New Jersey and are taking the lead in improving the quality and affordability of care. By working together, the HTC works to share best practices, learn from one another and lead the transition from fee-for-service to value-based care for employers, using their own benefit plans as models. All of the members have self-funded employee health plans.
By taking advantage of their collective size, information sharing and best practices, member organizations can offer their employees and families enhanced choices for healthcare and manage and optimize benefit costs. The HTC also provides opportunities for clinical collaboration and innovation in healthcare delivery and training.
“We are thrilled to welcome FDU as the first non-healthcare member to the Healthcare Transformation Consortium,” said Saad Ehtisham, Chair of the HTC Board of Managers, and President and CEO of Atlantic Health. “FDU’s arrival heralds an important milestone in HTC’s delivery of value and quality for employers of all types. The University’s engagement will enrich our collective efforts and advance our shared goals.”
“We are very excited and proud to join the Healthcare Transformation Consortium,” said FDU President Michael Avaltroni. “This provides a wonderful chance for us to enhance healthcare for our faculty and staff, as well as offering significant opportunities to access new services and bring our expertise to critical issues in healthcare today.”
Avaltroni said this development is part of a broader vision for the University. FDU aims to be in the forefront of colleges and universities providing transformational opportunities that align with and address critical workforce needs, with particular emphasis on health sciences — under the new division of FDU Health — as well as health-related fields and career-focused offerings. Earlier this year, the University announced the creation of FDU HealthPath Forward to expand health and health-related programs, to create a coalition of partnerships to foster innovation and collaboration to improve healthcare delivery and address workforce demands, and to build models of health and well-being on campus and beyond.
President Avaltroni emphasized many promising opportunities lie ahead. “We look forward to exploring how we can work together with the HTC to offer programs that respond to the latest needs in the industry and offer benefits for our students and for those currently in the workforce, as well as to become a leader in healthcare education in our region, nation and the world.”