Categories: New York City, Member News
01.18.2017
Ms. Quattrochi played a key role in transforming Bailey House into an innovative leader in HIV/AIDS care and supportive housing.
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Gina Quattrochi, Bailey House CEO and lifelong HIV/AIDS advocate, passed away December 13, 2016 from complications due to cancer. During the 25 years she led Bailey House, Ms. Quattrochi played a key role in transforming the organization into an innovative leader in HIV/AIDS care and supportive housing.
Ms. Quattrochi became the Executive Director of the AIDS Resource Center in 1991, after serving six years on the Board, and in 1995 changed the name of the organization to Bailey House in honor of Bailey Holt House, the first supportive housing residence for people living with HIV/AIDS created by the organization in 1986. Housing was Ms. Quattrochi’s passion and her imprint was immeasurable. She was instrumental in working with the City to develop the funding streams for both scattered-site and congregate supportive housing and she helped garner the research irrevocably linking homelessness to the incidence of HIV infection. She was among the first to introduce the notion that housing is healthcare.
Bailey House’s Senior Vice President of Housing Resources and Development Jeannette K. Ruffins said, “Gina was a tireless advocate for social justice and client rights."
Charles King, President and CEO of Housing Works, said “Gina is a hero in the fight against AIDS…and a driving force behind the development of supportive housing standards in New York State and her national advocacy for housing as an affordable intervention.”
Ms. Quattrochi was former president and a long-term member of the board of directors of the National AIDS Housing Coalition. She was appointed to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's Ending the Epidemic Task Force in 2014. Ms. Quattrochi also served on the Harlem Hospital Community Advisory Board, the Board of Directors of the Ryan White Integration of Care committee, the Board of Directors of iHealth NYS, and the Board of Directors of the Supportive Housing Network of New York.
Fittingly, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene called out Ms. Quattrochi’s lifelong contribution to the cause dedicating the NYC AIDS Memorial on World AIDS Day, less than two weeks before her passing,
Ms. Quattrochi was a force of nature and will be greatly missed. Our thoughts are with her friends, family and the larger advocacy community.