Jill Tager
Jill Borgida Tager has dedicated over 40 years to nursing and healthcare leadership, with a career that spans primary care, hospice, and end-of-life care, before transitioning into nursing leadership for more than two decades. She has a proven track record of leading multidisciplinary teams, designing scalable clinical operations, and implementing innovative systems and processes across both established and rapidly growing healthcare organizations. Jill is recognized for embracing change as an opportunity to engage others in creative problem-solving while maintaining a focus on high-quality, patient-centered care.
For the past two years, Jill has served as Senior Vice President at 10X Health, where she oversees pharmacy services, national telehealth practices, brick-and-mortar clinics, and support staff functions including credentialing, quality, and continuing education. In this role, she operationalizes strategic priorities, aligning departments to bring the organization’s vision to market. Jill is deeply involved in coaching and mentoring young professionals, fostering leadership development, and building high-performing teams, while ensuring clinical operations run efficiently and in compliance with all regulations.
Before joining 10X Health, Jill was Managing Director for Clinical Operations in Senior Primary Care, leading initiatives in a value-based, full-risk care model. She oversaw quality programs, clinical education, new center openings, referrals, infection control, and played a critical role in the organization’s COVID response, including on-site testing and community vaccination efforts. Jill holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Boston University and a Master’s in Education from the University of North Florida, where she focused on adult learning and organizational development. Her expertise lies in clinical operations, process improvement, EMR design, and supporting rapidly evolving organizations, all while investing in people and shaping the next generation of healthcare leaders.
• Registered Nurse, Compact License
• Six Sigma Green Belt (CSSGB)
• University of North Florida - MEd
• Boston University - BSN
• Outstanding Executive - Gentiva Hospice
• American IV Association
• Jewish education for young people
What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to having a very supportive spouse. Life is a balance - I'm married, I have children, I have a career, I have a house - and I have a husband who supports my career aspirations. Without that support, it would all crumble, because you can't keep all the balls in the air all at the same time on your own. I see women trying to do that, and they crash and burn. Having that partnership and support at home has been absolutely essential to everything I've been able to accomplish in my career.
What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best career advice I ever received came from a leadership seminar way back in the 80s. A woman was speaking to a room full of women and said: when your boss asks you for something, treat that as a priority and get it done first. Because when you've met the needs of your supervisor, now you've cleared the space and the time to work on everything else. But if you put that off, it's always going to be over you. You're going to have your leader nagging - where is it, where is it? - and it becomes a pain point and a stressor. So one piece is: if you have a direct ask from your one-up, take care of that right away. The other thing is to understand your leader well enough so that you can anticipate their needs, so that when they do make that ask, you're already halfway there. Those are the two best pieces of advice I've ever gotten, and they've stayed with me throughout my entire career.
What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
My advice is to really aim high and don't let people tell you that you cannot. You shouldn't let other people put obstacles in your way. I really do believe that people need to forge their own path, and you're going to make mistakes along the way, and you'll learn from those mistakes and get better. What upsets me is when people make a mistake and then it discourages them, and they retreat and take a backseat instead of saying, 'Okay, what did I learn from this? What do I need, and how can I make sure this doesn't happen again?' and then continue to forge forward and upward. I think women are unfortunately notorious for that, because they just beat themselves up. Don't let mistakes hold you back - learn from them and keep pushing forward.
What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
Right now, within healthcare, I'm in the longevity and wellness space, and that whole industry is exploding. There's a lot of disillusionment with traditional healthcare, which is really more focused on sick care. Individuals are more interested in how they can increase their life expectancy in a way that allows them to live a life filled with quality - what changes they need to make in their health so that can happen, versus waiting until they get sick. That whole industry is exploding because people are going outside of the insurance model and investing out of their own pockets in blood testing, self-paying for prescriptions, biohacking, and peptides. Everywhere you go, the field is exploding, because people really do want to have good quality of life and don't want to wait till they're sick. The biggest opportunity is helping people focus on quality of life and preventative care rather than just treating illness after it happens.
What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
One of the biggest values I hold onto is being fair and just - but I want to qualify that, because people often think that being just and fair means treating everyone equally. That's really important to me: you can't treat your staff unjustly or unfairly, but that doesn't mean equal. Fair and equal are not the same thing, and I talk a lot about that with staff, because they think they're being treated unfairly because everybody's not treated the same. But it's not the same thing - one does not equal the other. Along with fairness, I think it's really important to be honest, clear, upfront, and transparent about yourself, as well as your expectations and what you expect from others. Transparency and honesty in how I communicate and lead are essential values for me.