Angela Bovill holds the top job at one of the largest human services organizations in Central Massachusetts. Ascentria Care Alliance has assets of $119 million and continues to grow.
In 2022, the organization added a new wing to its Lutheran Rehabilitation and Skilled Care Center in Worcester, which it will unveil this year. Internally, the organization is making a concerted push to elevate its workers ability to make changes for its clients. Raising more than $1 million in this pursuit so far, Ascentria has hired a new senior vice president to lead the efforts to develop wrap-around preventative solutions for the health and human services workforce. Aiming to create stability in a workforce environment that has been precarious in recent years, Bovill and her team are pushing to improve outcomes for workers and clients.
Ascentria’s reach is larger than most – though based in Worcester, its services do not target just one geography or one group. Ascentria serves children, families, people with developmental disabilities and mental illnesses, refugees, unaccompanied minors, and older adults. Bovill’s team is at its best when it can scale ideas that work with one population to provide resources more broadly, a goal taking priority in work throughout New England and beyond.
How should professionals best use the power they wield? “We have an obligation to make sure the communities we operate in are fundamentally better off as a result of the decisions we make.”
Turkey time: Bovill hosted 44 family members for her Thanksgiving this year, a feast complete with three turkeys.
