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Advent names DeLaina Lewkowicz director of community benefit and health

DeLaina Lewkowicz

By Lightning Reports, Published: May 17, 2025

DeLaina Lewkowicz, who had been business development manager, has become the new director of community benefit and community health at AdventHealth Hendersonville, the provider announced.

With more than a decade of strategic leadership experience, Lewkowicz will work to expand and foster meaningful and impactful relationships between AdventHealth and the Western North Carolina community.

Along with the whole-person care team members offer within clinical facilities, Lewkowicz will be offering new programs such as the AdventHealth Care Crew to expand opportunities for team members to volunteer in meaningful ways in our community.

“Community advocacy is one of the most important aspects of AdventHealth’s culture and our mission to extend the healing ministry of Christ,” Lewkowicz says. “We believe in stepping outside the hospital and clinic walls to better support the community as a whole. We are fortunate to partner with exceptional non-profit organizations that work to meet needs in our community.”

As a not-for-profit hospital, AdventHealth believes in giving back to the community it serves by reinvesting resources to improve health care access and services, increasing access to care, and fostering community partnerships to help address both critical health care needs and health equity within the community.
“I am honored by the opportunity to step in the community benefit and community health role,” Lewkowicz says. “It aligns closely with both my professional values and personal passion for improving health outcomes at the community level. I see this position as the bridge between the hospital and the community – to listen, understand and help implement initiatives – that serves both the individual and broader public health goals.

“As a seventh generation Henderson County native, I am blessed to serve the community my family has loved for so long.”
DeLaina and her husband, David, are the founders and co-leaders of The Bridge Church on Upward Road and are deeply involved in supporting first responders in Henderson County.

As members of AdventHealth’s FaithConnect, the couple uses their resources and expertise to connect with other ministry leaders throughout the community. She and her husband have two sons. In her free time DeLaina enjoys spending time with her family, being a chocolate connoisseur and visiting theme parks with her family.