Julie Trocchio is senior director of community benefit and continuing care at the Catholic Health Association of the United States. She is based in CHA's Washington, DC office.

Ms. Trocchio carries out programmatic and advocacy activities related to community benefit, tax exemption, environmental sustainability and long-term care. She also is the CHA liaison to the executives of state Catholic health associations and conferences.

Before joining CHA in 1988, she was director of delivery of services at the American Health Care Association in Washington, DC, a nonprofit organization that represents long-term care facilities. Ms. Trocchio also was a public health nurse for the Montgomery County Health Department in Rockville, Md., and has worked as a staff nurse for a hospital and nursing home facility. Ms. Trocchio earned a bachelor's degree from the Georgetown University School of Nursing in Washington, DC, and a master's degree from the University of Maryland School of Nursing in Baltimore.