Lorraine Chambers Lewis serves as President for Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Forest Hills, a 312-bed community teaching hospital, part of Northwell Health. Northwell Health is a nonprofit integrated healthcare network that is New York State’s largest healthcare provider and private employer.   

LIJ Forest Hills is located in the heart of Queens. For over 70 years, the hospital provides inpatient medical and surgical care, intensive care, and women’s health services. As a Queens native herself, she proudly leads this dedicated team of healthcare professionals that demonstrates respect and sensitivity for the cultural needs of its patients and their families.  

Among her previous appointments, Ms. Chambers Lewis served as Northwell Health’s vice president of Employee Health Services overseeing the occupational health needs of Northwell Health’s workforce. Under her leadership, she played a vital role in moving the workforce through health crises such as Ebola, H1N1, and more recently, the COVID-19 global pandemic. Ms. Chambers Lewis was responsible for progressive strategies within the organization that rapidly developed and launched COVID-19 testing programs for team members and their families as well as a vaccination program that immunized nearly 60,000 Northwell Health team members.  

Born and raised in Queens, she is the daughter of parents who migrated to St. Albans Queens, from Jamaica, West Indies. Early on, she pursued her passions for biology and healthcare. In 1993, she achieved her goal and began her career as a physician assistant (PA) at Queens Hospital Center.  She went on to specialize in multiple areas of medicine over the years; emergency medicine, internal medicine, critical care and occupational medicine.

Ultimately, she joined the leadership team at Northwell Health in 2002 as the supervising PA for Long Island Jewish Medical Center’s emergency department. Later transitioning to occupational health in 2007, she took on various advancements in positions of increasing responsibility as the function grew during a time of rapid expansion for Northwell. 

Ms. Chambers Lewis is a graduate of The CUNY School of Medicine Physician Assistant Program and received her MBA in Quality Management from Hofstra University. She also serves on the boards of the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens Chamber of Commerce, and the Queens Museum. 

Married to Kenneth Lewis for 25 years with two daughters, Kasia 23 and Savannah 20 years old. Ms. Chambers Lewis has dedicated her life’s work to understanding the communities that she serves and helping them live longer and better-quality lives.