Baystate Health Announces Two Executive HR Appointments

SPRINGFIELD — Baystate Health announced the appointments of Jen Azuri-Humm as vice president, Talent Acquisition and Provider Recruitment, effective Jan. 12, and Jennifer Stehman as vice president, HR Strategy & Consulting, effective Jan. 26. Together, these leadership additions strengthen Baystate Health’s enterprise-wide human resources strategy and reinforce the organization’s commitment to building a high-performing, people-centered workforce.

In her role, Azuri-Humm will lead Baystate Health’s enterprise talent acquisition and provider recruitment strategy, reimagining how the organization attracts, engages, and hires diverse, high-caliber talent across all roles. She will oversee executive, team member, and physician/provider recruitment, campus relations, community partnerships, employment branding, sourcing, and workforce planning, aligning recruitment strategy with Baystate Health’s mission, growth plans, and evolving workforce needs.

Azuri-Humm brings more than 18 years of experience leading organizational strategy across healthcare and technology organizations, including public and private equity-backed environments. Most recently, she served as vice president, Talent Acquisition at Emory Healthcare in Georgia, a 13-hospital health system with more than 425 provider locations. Her previous roles include senior vice president, People at Soar Autism Center (Brighton Health Partners); vice president, Talent at Bonterra; and AVP Talent – Enterprise at Inovalon. She holds a bachelor’s degree in women’s studies from the University of Delaware.

Stehman will serve as an enterprise strategist and transformational leader, responsible for redefining how HR partners with the business across Baystate Health and Health New England. In this role, she will set strategy for HR business partner and consulting functions, compliance oversight, labor strategy, employee relations, employee health services and leave programs, and organizational reorganizations, elevating HR into a unified, strategic consulting capability that supports workforce alignment, leadership effectiveness, and cultural cohesion.

Stehman brings more than 20 years of progressive HR leadership experience across complex, multi-site healthcare systems. Most recently, she served as senior director, Human Resources for the UPMC North Central Pennsylvania Region, a six-hospital system supporting approximately 5,000 employees. Previously, she served as regional Human Resources director at St. Luke’s University Health Network. She holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, an MBA in operations management from the University of Scranton, and a senior HR business partner certification.