12/14/2019
Very difficult Time for the High Mountain Health Family. It is with Great Sadness 🙏😢 that we share the news of David V. Rasa MD, RPh passing. We are sharing information about our beloved Founding Partner of High Mountain Health:
David Vincent Rasa, MD, RPh, 68, died Thursday evening in The Valley Hospital, in Ridgewood, NJ surrounded by his wife Diane, son Mikey and daughter Nicole as well as close relatives and personal friends.
Well known throughout the Wayne community, Dr. Rasa was the founding partner of High Mountain Health Medical Group and was active with the St. Joseph Hospital Foundation and the Wayne Police Department and the Board of Education.
Born in Paterson, NJ, he graduated John F. Kennedy High School in 1968 and from Rutgers University in 1974. He earned his degree in Pharmacy from Rutgers and went on to study medicine at the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara Mexico, earning his medical degree in 1981.
Dr. Rasa was certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and was a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the NJ Academy of Family Physicians and the American Medical Association. In 2008, Dr. Rasa was honored by the St Joseph’s Wayne Hospital Foundation as “Distinguished Physician of the Year.”
Dr. Rasa built a loyal medical practice and was active in Wayne’s football and lacrosse programs and served as the physician to the Wayne Board of Education. He also served the local Wayne Policeman’s Benevolent Association. An avid outdoorsman, he enjoyed skiing, golfing, fishing, and spending time with his family and friends.
He was also Chairman of the Annual Golf Sports Classic Outing at North Jersey Country Club for multiple years which raised funds for the St. Joseph’s Wayne Hospital Foundation. He was responsible for starting the Annual Breast Cancer Walk in Wayne that raised funds for Breast Cancer Awareness and local scholarships as well.
He is survived by his wife Diane Rasa; his three children, his only son Michael, a senior at Wayne Hills High School who will be attending Manhattan College in September to play lacrosse; his daughter Nicole, a family medicine resident at Crozer-Keystone Family Medicine, and her fiancé Joe, and his daughter Davina, a graduate of Ohio Northern University School of Law. Also his Uncle Harry and Aunt Gloria Albano, as well as his three sisters, many cousins, nieces, and nephews.
Friends may visit with the family from 2-6pm on Sunday December 15, 2019 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd, Wayne. Funeral services will be held 10AM Monday, December 16 from the funeral home, then to St Mary’s RC Church, 17 Pompton Ave, Pompton Lakes where at 11AM a funeral mass will be celebrated.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes, NJ.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made in David’s memory to the David Vincent Rasa, M.D., RPh Healthcare Scholarship Fund for Wayne, NJ high school senior who is planning a career in Healthcare.
PO Box 398, Ridgewood, NJ 07451
