Rebecca Babigian bring extensive experience in integrated care, health plan contracting and business development to the OPEN MINDS team. Prior to joining OPEN MINDS, Ms. Babigian served as the National Vice President of Development, Prospect Integrated Behavioral Health for Prospect Alta Hospital Systems, LLC, based in the Northeast Region. Ms. Plonsky’s role was responsible for national growth and development of the Integrated Behavioral Health Service lines. Ms. Plonsky was assigned to lead multiple projects to improve the quality of care. She successfully improved patient health outcomes and added $10 million of savings and revenue to the bottom line.

Before this promotion within Prospect Alta Hospital Systems, LLC, Ms. Babigian served as the Vice President of Integrated Behavioral Health, Prospect CharterCARE, LLC. In this position, Ms. Babigian provided leadership and program development expertise across the integrated behavioral health service lines. Ms. Babigian also oversaw the opening of Rhode Island’s first Long Term Behavioral Health Unit and CharterCARE’s first Addiction Services Center.

Ms. Babigian also served as the Senior Behavioral Health Program Manager, for the Rhode Island State Executive Office of Health & Human Services, in Cranston, Rhode Island. She was the primary leader for the division and responsible for behavioral health Medicaid strategy, program innovation and implementation, policy, and contracting.

Previously, Ms. Babigian served as the Behavioral Health Program Manager, for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island, in Providence, Rhode Island. In this role, Ms. Babigian developed innovative behavioral health programming to improve patient outcomes and address network gaps in care, provided clinical, quality and strategic oversight and analysis for behavioral health programming and was responsible for negotiating behavioral health case rates and program implementation.

Prior to serving as the Behavioral Health Program Manager with the State of Rhode Island, Ms. Babigian served as a Business Analyst and Project Manager for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island in Providence, Rhode Island. Ms. Babigian was responsible for developing a CME and CEU accredited 12 series of educational seminars titled “Making Rhode Island Well”, which examined the nature of the physician-patient interaction and the substance of current evidence-based prevention and wellness practices.

Ms. Babigian earned her Master of Social Work from Boston College in Newton, Massachusetts. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts.