MJHS Foundation Board Members

Esrig is an independent financial and compliance technology consultant. He was previously Managing Director, ACA Technology, where he created technology products for regulatory and compliance stakeholders.

His charitable involvement has ranged from the boards of the Wall Street Division of UJA-Federation of New York, Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation-NJ, Schnurmacher Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing-Beth Israel Medical Center to the advisory board of the Garden State Film Festival.

Esrig has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from State University of New York at Stony Brook. He also has completed nondegree coursework in accounting, marketing and finance at New York University.

Today, he is once again Chair of the Menorah Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Care board, Vice Chair of the MJHS Home Care, MJHS Foundation, and HomeFirst LHCSA boards, Treasurer of the MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care board and member of the MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care and Isabella Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Care boards.

Topal is Partner and Chief Collaboration Officer of Prager Metis CPAs, LLC, a Top 10 international firm and Top 100 US accounting firm. He is also President of Prager Metis Charitable Foundation. He was a Partner at Rothschild, Topal, Miller & Kraft PC prior to merging his successful practice with Prager Metis in January 2010. In addition, he is a Partner in the law firm of Topal & Topal. He is considered an expert in the hospitality industry and frequently speaks on relevant topics to industry groups.

Topal received his bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Albany and has a juris doctor from Brooklyn Law School. His professional affiliations include American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants. Topal also sits on the boards of Hillel at Binghamton, where his is treasurer, and the National Ramah Commission.

Director of the Center for the Advancement of Community Health Care at the Lifetime Healthcare Companies, Goshin also is Chairperson for several health-related organizations including: Peak Health Solutions; Plan Data Management; the Alliance for Advancing Non-Profit Health Care; Union Occupational Health Center; and Integral Information Systems, LLC.

Goshin is a Trustee for Freedom from Hunger, a Faculty Member at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and the University of Buffalo School of Public Health, respectively. He also is an Advisor at the Weinberg Campus and the Community Health Foundation of Western and Central New York. In addition, he serves on the President’s Advisory Council at Buffalo State College.

He is a graduate of the University of Buffalo and the University of Buffalo’s School of Medicine, where he is now a clinical associate professor.

Prior to joining MJHS, Balko served as Senior Vice President and CFO of Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, which included the hospital, two skilled nursing facilities, six clinics and several assisted living facilities. Earlier in his career, Balko served as Executive Vice President for Administration at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center and Vice President of Finance at Cabrini Medical Center.

Balko sits on the boards of the Continuing Care Leadership Coalition (CCLC) and The Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS). He is also a member of LeadingAge and belongs to the Healthcare Financial Management Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.

A certified public accountant, Balko holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Manhattan College and a master’s degree in health services from The New School for Social Research.

Under his leadership, the system expanded to nine business units and nearly 25 programs and services, including:

• Pediatric and adult hospice as well as pediatric and adult palliative care
• Two skilled nursing and sub-acute facilities
• A certified home health care agency
• Adult day health care
• A Medicare Advantage Organization with a Medicare contract (Elderplan, Inc.)
• A managed long-term care plan (HomeFirst)
• An integrated Medicare Advantage and Managed Long-Term Care product (MAP) that fully integrates health care and managed long-term care in one program
• Senior housing
• A center for development of assistive technology
• An applied research center

Throughout his career, Feldman has provided insight and leadership to a number of state and national professional organizations that serve the chronically impaired, frail and elderly. His current and previous service includes:

• New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Medicaid Redesign Team, member
• Managed Long Term Care Implementation and Waiver Redesign, workgroup co-chair
• State of New Jersey’s Medicaid LTC Funding Advisory Council, steering group member
• Continuing Care Leadership Coalition (CCLC), immediate past chair and executive committee member
• Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA), vice chair and board member
• Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS), board member
• Managed Long Term Care-PACE Coalition, chair
• International Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (IAHSA), board member
• Alliance for Advancing Nonprofit Health Care, board member
• Association for Jewish Aging Services of North America (AJAS), past chair; board member

Other highlights of his career include:

• Center for Aging Services Technologies, commission member
• American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) Faith-Based Cabinet, co-chair
• GeronTech (The Israel Center for Assistive Technology and Aging), chairv
• Andante Medical Devices Ltd., board member
• New York Association of Homes and Services for the Aged (NYAHSA), past chair
• National Chronic Care Consortium, past chair

Often asked to discuss chronic and long-term care issues, Feldman is a frequent speaker at conferences that focus on aging and managed care. Dozens of groups have recognized Feldman for his enormous contributions to the health care sector. Recent honors include the Good Scout Award (Boy Scouts of America); Lawrence E. Larson Award (Leading Age, New York); Award of Honor (Leading Age); Ruth F. Wilson Award (Home Care Association of New York State, Inc.); Community Leadership Award (Agudah Women of America); and Distinguished Alumnus Award from C.W. Post College of Long Island University.

Feldman graduated cum laude with a B.S. in business administration from C.W. Post College of Long Island University. He holds an M.B.A. in hospital administration from Wagner College. He also is a fellow with the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Milch is a past Chair of the MJHS, MJHS Foundation and Elderplan boards of directors. Under his leadership, the organization built on its mission of caring for frail, elderly and at-risk members of the community through strategic planning, innovation and expansion. As a result of his insight, commitment and guidance, MJHS surpassed $1 billion in revenue.

Milch has more than 45 years of leadership experience in health care management. He served as president and CEO of Combined Coordinating Council, Inc. (CCC) in New York and was a consultant to the Robert Wood Johnson Health Network in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Throughout his career, Ron has held senior leadership roles at hospitals across the Greater New York area.

A life Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, Milch has served on various professional and community boards, including as Oversight Board Chairman for Bergen Regional Medical Center in Paramus, NJ and Vice Chairman of the board of directors at the Jersey City Medical Center in Jersey City, NJ; New Jersey Hospital Association and the American Hospital Association. He currently sits on the Healthcare Trustees of New York State and Trustee of Health Care Association of New York State (HANYS) boards.

Milch holds master’s degrees in business administration from New York University’s (NYU) Graduate School of Business and in public administration from NYU’s Graduate School of Public Administration.

Rollman is currently an independent consultant who most recently spent more than six years as the head of access priorities at Pfizer, Inc., where she led initiatives to advance patient access to medicines and cross-functional teams in analyzing and developing Pfizer’s positions on health care issues. Her work guided Pfizer’s external messaging on public policy matters and contributed to internal capability development for effective external engagement. She was promoted to that position after serving as Pfizer’s head of international policy and head of international policy, developed markets (Europe and Asia.)

Prior to that, Rollmann held various positions at a leading general management consulting firm, Booz & Company, where she rose through the ranks to become a partner. As a consultant, she served as an advisor on commercial innovation, growth strategy, marketing strategy and business transformation for clients from startups to Fortune 50 corporations.

Rollmann earned a Master of Public Affairs degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University, where she graduated summa cum laude.

Earlier in his career, he served as the Founding Director of the Cincinnati Institute of Justice, and Senior Planner at the Vera Institute of Justice. Talbot received a BS in History from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from Xavier University.

Wagner joined MJHS Health System as Director of Budget and Reimbursement in 1999. During the following fifteen years, he worked exclusively on the provider side of MJHS. In 2014, he moved over to Elderplan as Chief Financial Officer. A year later, he was promoted and added COO of Elderplan to his title and responsibilities. In February 2019, Wagner was named President of MJHS Health Plans, including Elderplan for Medicare and Dual Eligible beneficiaries and its managed long-term care plan, HomeFirst. In September 2020, his responsibilities expanded to serve as Chief Operating Officer of MJHS Health System. Before joining MJHS Health System, Wagner was a health care consultant. He was also a Supervisor-Auditor with Loeb & Troper.