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SPEAKERS
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Opening Ceremony Mary C. Selecky
Mary C. Selecky has been
Secretary of the Washington State Department of Health since March 1999,
serving under Governor Chris Gregoire and former Governor Gary Locke.
Prior to working for the state, Mary served for 20 years as
administrator of the Northeast Tri-County Health District in
Throughout her career, Mary has been a leader in
developing local, state and national public health policies that
recognize the unique health care challenges facing both urban and rural
communities. As secretary of
health, Mary has made tobacco prevention and control, patient safety,
and emergency preparedness her top priorities.
Mary is known for bringing people and organizations together to
improve the public health system and the health of people in
Mary has served for two terms as the president of the Association of
State and Territorial Health Officials,
receiving the 2010 American
Medical Association’s Nathan Davis Award for Outstanding Government
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Keynote Speaker (Monday) Jim Bergquist Jim Bergquist enjoys a distinguished career as an executive coach, meeting facilitator, trainer and public speaker. His career began as a classically trained musician and performer. Keenly interested in the practical applications of human creativity, he became engaged in the possibility of ending global poverty. Recently, a series of best selling training videos and books about one of Jim’s long-time clients has documented his innovative approach for bringing about cultural transformation. In 1986, Jim began coaching the fishmongers at the now famous Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle, Washington. He coached them in developing an empowering company culture and in fulfilling their vision to be a “world famous in a way that makes a difference for people”. |
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Luncheon Speaker (Tuesday) Teepa Snow
Teepa is an occupational therapist working as a dementia care and
dementia education specialist. She has over 31 years of clinical
experience in the field of geriatrics and dementia care. Currently, she
has an independent practice as well as clinical appointments with Duke
University's School of Nursing and UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine.
She provides interactive and creative educational and training sessions
to organizations and providers throughout the US & Canada. She has been
actively involved in teaching and clinical research projects throughout
her practice career.
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Keynote Speaker
(Tuesday 8:30AM)
Known as the “World’s Cleanest Comedian and Speaker,” Kent Rader helps
people and associations learn and experience how laughter matters in
reducing stress and building quality organizations.
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General Session (Wednesday Morning 8:30) Dean Linneman Mr. Linneman is the Administrator for the Section of Health Standards and Licensure within the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. He received a BS in Biology/Medical Technology from Truman State University and later earned a Master’s Degree in Health Administration from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Mr. Linneman has worked in various capacities in the health care industry for greater than 20 years. Shelly Williamson Shelly Williamson is currently the Assistant Administrator for the Section for Long Term Care Regulation. Shelly began employment with the Section in 1995 as a Facility Surveyor. She is a graduate of the University of Central Missouri with a Master of Science in Social Gerontology. Teresa Generous Teresa A. Generous is Director of the Division of Regulation and Licensure of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS). Prior to joining DHSS, Ms. Generous practiced commercial and health law in the metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri area as Corporate General Counsel and as a partner in a large metropolitan law firm. Ms. Generous has served as President of the Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater Metropolitan St. Louis and as Chair of the Business Law Section of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis. She is admitted to the practice of law in Missouri, Illinois and to the United States Supreme Court. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology/Chemistry from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York; a Masters of Education and Counseling Psychology and a Juris Doctorate from University of Missouri-Columbia. Jeanne Serra Jeanne M. Serra is Deputy Director, Division of Regulation and Licensure, of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS). Prior to joining DHSS, Ms. Serra practiced health law in St. Louis, MO, as corporate general counsel for a national professional health association, assistant general counsel for the Missouri Department of Mental Health, and assistant attorney general for the Missouri Attorney General’s Office. She is admitted to practice law in Missouri and Illinois, and is a Registered Nurse in Missouri. Ms. Serra earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Webster University in St. Louis, and a Juris Doctorate from St. Louis University School of Law.
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Center for Medicare/Medicaid Services
(Wednesday Morning 9:45) Thomas Hamilton T homas Hamilton is Director of the Survey and Certification Group within CMS ’ Center for Medicaid and State Operations. The Group is responsible for quality assurance for more than 100,000 providers that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, including hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, rural health clinics, home health agencies, hospices, dialysis facilities, clinical laboratories, and nursing homes. The Group’s responsibilities include:§ Comprehensive surveys to assure quality of care on the part of providers that participate in Medicare or Medicaid; § Investigations pursuant to quality of care complaints; § Quality assurance for clinical laboratories that test human specimens for health care purposes; § Ensuring that corrective action is taken when quality of care problems are identified; § Policy guidance and oversight for about 7000 surveyors in federal and State survey agencies; § Monitoring and approval of accrediting organizations; and § Working with professional associations, consumer organizations, States, and many others to take actions that promote the ability of beneficiaries to receive quality care in a safe environment.
Mr. Hamilton previously served as the Director of CMS ’ Disabled and Elderly Health Programs Group where he led the development of Medicaid policies for low income elderly and disabled adults. He also co-led the President’s New Freedom Initiative, a collaborative effort of 9 federal agencies acting under Executive Order 13217 to improve the prospects of elderly and disabled people to obtain or sustain the supports needed to live in their own homes and to participate in their communities. The $1.75 billion Money Follows the Person Initiative passed by Congress in 2005 was one product of those efforts. For 21 years prior to joining CMS Mr. Hamilton was one of the principal architects of the Wisconsin long-term care system. During that time he designed and managed innovative programs for integrated programs that combine acute and long term care services, for long-term care, home and community-based services, managed care involving Medicare and Medicaid, income maintenance programs, and employment initiatives for people with disabilities. A native of Massachusetts, Mr. Hamilton received a bachelor’s degree in 1973 from Brandeis University before conducting graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin . |
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Dr. Leible is an internist with a CAQ in
Geriatrics.
During her geriatric fellowship she
concentrated on long term care and palliative care medicine.
She has practiced in 3 states |
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Dr. Melissa Schaefer. I am a Medical Officer in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I work on the team that deals with healthcare settings outside the hospital. My work focuses primarily on infection control issues in ambulatory surgical centers and outpatient clinics and well as issues related injection safety and medication handling in all settings.
Angela Mason-Elbert is the technical lead for Ambulatory
Surgical Centers in the Division of Acute Care Services (DACS), within
the Survey & Certification Group. Angela has been at CMS since
1998, joining the agency through the Presidential Management Fellowship
program. Prior to joining DACS, she worked in the Division of
Ambulatory Services and was responsible for Part B drug payment policy.
Angela has a B.S. from
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Bea Rector was recently appointed as WA State
Aging and Disability Administration’s Project Lead for the state’s
planning grant to integrate care for individuals dually eligible for
Medicare and Medicaid.
Bea has worked within
the Aging and Disability Services Administration since 1999 and has held
a number of critical management positions, including the Office Chief of
the State Unit on Aging and prior to that as Office Chief of the Home
and Community Programs Unit, both within ADSA’s Home and Community
Services Division.
Prior to working with
ADSA, Bea worked for a large home care agency that provided in-home
personal care services to individuals with physical, cognitive and
developmental disabilities.
She received a Master of Public Administration from the
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Donna Turner Cobb is Senior Counsel with the
Washington State Attorney General’s Office. She supervises a team of
nine assistant attorneys general, who handle various long-term care and
Medicaid issues.
Donna has represented the state’s nursing
home program for sixteen years, handling a variety of issues related to
state licensing and Medicare and Medicaid certification.
In 1995, Donna’s first assignment with the
Attorney General’s Office was to provide advice about the legal
requirements related to implementation of the OBRA nurse aide registry.
Donna has a Master’s degree in Public
Administration from the
Angela Coats McCarthy, a graduate of the
University of Washington School of Law, is an assistant attorney general
with the Washington State Attorney General’s Office.
For the last seven years, Angela has
represented the Medicaid and long-term care licensing and certification
programs, including representation of the programs that regulate adult
family homes, boarding homes (assisted living), and supported living for
individuals who receive services through an agency.
Angela also represents the Resident Client
Protection Program, which makes civil findings of abuse, neglect
and exploitation against individuals.
During her representation of this program,
it has expanded from making findings in nursing facilities, to making
findings in all licensed or certified long-term care settings.
Angela has also practiced in federal and
state court.
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Lisa Tripp is an Assistant
Professor of Law at |
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Dr. Leible is an internist with a CAQ in
Geriatrics.
During her geriatric fellowship she
concentrated on long term care and palliative care medicine.
She has practiced in 3 states
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Diane Rydrych
is the Assistant Director of the Division of Health Policy at the
Minnesota Department of Health. Ms.
Rydrych is the department’s lead staff person on Adverse Health
Events reporting and patient safety issues. She manages the state’s
adverse events reporting system and writes about trends in patient
safety for state and national publications, as well as working with
the
MN Alliance for Patient Safety, the
Minnesota Hospital Association and other stakeholder groups both in
Minnesota and other states to develop and implement system changes
to promote safer patient care and a cultural shift in how we view
adverse events. Ms. Rydrych has a master’s degree in public policy
from the Humphrey Institute at the
University of Minnesota, and has worked
at the Health Department for eleven years.
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Polly Weaver. Polly
has been the Chief of Field Operations for the Division of Health
Quality Assurance, Agency for Health Care Administration since 1995
and has over 25 years of regulatory experience.. Responsibilities
include management of the eight Agency for Health Care
Administration field offices located throughout Florida. These
offices are responsible for the certification and survey functions
and enforcement activities of the health care facilities that are
licensed by this Agency and encompasses one of the largest survey
programs in the nation. It is the responsibility of these field
offices to ensure these facilities are operating as required by
state and federal regulations. In addition, Polly currently oversees
the staff training and quality assurance program, as well as,
complaint administration activities. Her clinical expertise is in
laboratory medicine, and she has worked as a Medical Technologist in
the reference, hospital and physician office laboratory arenas. She
has a Bachelor of Science degree in Medical Technology from Stetson
University.
Rick Harris received a law
degree from the
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Thomas J. Walsh II has served as a Senior Attorney in the General Counsel's Office of Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration since 2004. In addition to managing and prosecuting an active caseload of facilities regulation actions, Tom also heads the Emergency Licensure Action team. He has also served as the Agency's informal hearing officer on numerous occasions. A graduate of Stetson College of Law in Gulfport, Florida, and a member of the Florida Bar in excess of twenty years, Tom has extensive litigation experience in civil, family, and administrative law. He has served as Court Counsel to the Sixth Judicial Circuit of the State of Florida and has been a guest lecturer in numerous areas including guardianship, alternative dispute resolution, emergency administrative actions, and Florida Civil Practice. In addition to his legal career, Tom is active as a member of the board of directors for a national not-for-profit organization focusing on the treatment of addictions, mental health, and homelessness. Included in this service is serving as Chair for a Florida based not-for profit and a member of two other Florida based not-for-profit corporations. Previously Tom served as both a member and Chair of the Health and Human Services Board for District Five of Florida's Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services. A native of St. Petersburg, Florida, Tom resides in his home town with his wife of twenty-eight years, Susan.
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Cecile Castello, RN, has more than 35 years of nursing experience, and since 2005 has served as the manager of field operations for the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, Health Standards Section. Her responsibilities include the management of 6 agency field offices located throughout the state of Louisiana, encompassing a staff of 158 survey staff, managers, and clerical support. These offices are responsible for the certification and survey functions and enforcement activities of the health care facilities that are licensed by this agency. It is the responsibility of these field offices to ensure these facilities are operating as required by state and federal regulations. Prior to coming to state government in 1998, she worked for 21 years in the hospital clinical arena as well as managing a hospital based home health agency. Her nursing degree was obtained from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, LA in 1976.
KathyMcCanna, R.N., B.S.N., CPHQ. Darryl Luyt is the supervisor of the regulatory Quality Assurance Program for the State of Washington. This position includes the role of State Training Coordinator for LTC. In October 2008 Washington was selected to implement the Quality Indicator Survey (QIS) process and Darryl was the implementation coordinator. Ms. Luyt is a Registered QIS Surveyor, a Certified QIS Trainer, and a QIS Trainer Instructor. As part of the QA program she does the DAR-SA analysis and follow-up training. Darryl obtained her Master of Science in Nursing degree from the University of Phoenix online. She is currently a member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.
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Sue Ann Guildermann has over
thirty-five years experience providing education, leadership and
consultation to non-profit and for-profit Long Term Care organizations.
Sue Ann is a Registered Nurse with a BA and MA in communication and
adult education. She designs and produces educational seminars and
conferences for Empira, a consortium of 27 skilled nursing facilities.
Sue Ann directs quality improvement projects based upon data
interpretation and analysis and is currently completing a 3 year
MN
DHS grant project to reduce resident falls in Skilled Nursing
Facilities. Sue Ann has edited,
designed and written educational manuals, printed materials and
videotapes. She also teaches at the |
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Dr. Joseph Perz
is with the
CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion,
based in
Karen Hoffmann is the
Infection Control Preventionist in the Survey and Certification Group at
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, and a Clinical Instructor for the
Division of Infectious Diseases at the Dr. Daniel Schwartz, MD earned his Medical Degree at George Washington University and trained as an Urologist at University of Maryland in Baltimore. He practiced in the US Air Force at Keesler Medical Center in Biloxi, MS, and in Palm Springs, CA. In 1992, Dr Schwartz joined Kaiser Permanente in Baltimore, MD, and, in addition to his clinical practice, he held a variety of administrative positions. In 2000, he earned his Masters in Business Administration from Loyola College in Baltimore. Dr. Schwartz joined CMS as the Chief Medical Officer of Survey and Certification Group in May, 2010. He has focused primarily on infection prevention and control issues in multiple provider types. He works with DHHS, CDC, AHRQ, FDA, State Survey Agencies, and the private sector on ways to improve the survey process and patient safety.
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Lynne Korte is Project Director for
Lori Melchiori has worked in various roles
directly with, and on behalf of, elders and persons with disabilities
for three decades.
She is currently the Assistant Director of
Residential Care Services Division (RCS), DSHS.
In this capacity, Lori
oversees the RCS field
operations related to licensing/certification and complaint
investigations conducted in approximately 3800 Adult Family Homes,
Boarding Homes, and Nursing Homes throughout
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Page Ulrey is a Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney at the King County
Prosecutor's Office.
She graduated from Amherst College and
Northeastern University School of Law.
After law school, she worked for four and a
half years as a public defender in Seattle.
In 1998, she went to work at the King
County Prosecutor's Office, where she has prosecuted domestic violence
and mainstream cases, supervised the prosecution of misdemeanor cases,
and chaired the Juvenile Unit of her office.
Page was appointed to the then
newly-created position of elder abuse prosecutor in the Criminal
Division of her office in 2001.
For the next five years, she prosecuted
cases of vulnerable adult neglect, financial exploitation, sexual
assault, physical assault, and homicide.
She also founded and chaired the King
County Elder Abuse Council and Criminal Mistreatment Review Panel.
Aileen Miller is the Deputy Director of the Washington Attorney
General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU).
The MFCU investigates and prosecutes
provider fraud committed against the Medicaid program and resident
abuse/neglect in Medicaid funded facilities.
Aileen has also held positions as a Senior
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in the Lewis County Prosecutor’s Office, an
Assistant Attorney General in the Washington Attorney General’s Criminal
Justice Division (CJD), and a Deputy Prosecutor in Hill County, Montana.
In the CJD, Aileen represented the
Washington State Department of Corrections and handled civil rights
cases, including complex litigation such as class actions.
As a member of the MFCU’s Long Term Care
team, Aileen works on cases involving allegations of fraud, abuse and
neglect in Medicaid funded facilities. Richard C. Harruff is Chief Medical Examiner of the King County Medical Examiner’s Office in Seattle, Washington. He earned his MD and PhD(Chemistry) degrees from Indiana University in 1976 and completed postgraduate training in pathology at University of Wisconsin (Madison), New York University, and University of Tennessee (Memphis). Dr. Harruff is certified in Anatomic, Clinical and Forensic Pathology by the American Board of Pathology. He has held faculty appointments in the pathology departments of Emory University (Atlanta) while working for the Public Health Service at Grady Memorial Hospital, University of Tennessee while serving as Assistant Chief Medical Examiner for Shelby County and the State of Tennessee in Memphis, and Indiana University while providing forensic pathology services to the Marion County Coroner in Indianapolis. He is currently Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology at University of Washington School of Medicine. Prior to being appointed Chief Medical Examiner in 2000, Dr. Harruff was Associate Medical Examiner at the King County Medical Examiner’s Office since 1993. In addition to practicing forensic pathology, Dr. Harruff lectures widely on topics related to pathology and the investigation of intentional and unintentional injuries, including those of elderly and vulnerable adults.
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Sharon I. Eloranta, MD, is
the Medical Director for Quality and Safety Initiatives at Qualis Health
in
Susan
Hausmann, MS, is a Quality Improvement Consultant and Health Care
Analyst with over ten years experience with Qualis Health.
She currently works on patient safety
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Tracy Niekamp is the Program Manager for the Licensure and Certification Unit in the Section for Long Term Care Regulation in Missouri. She has been involved in the field of regulation for 10 years, as a surveyor and a program manager. For the past 5 years, she has been an active member of the Association of Health Facility State Agencies (AHFSA), serving as the Regional Representative for CMS Region 7. As the manager for the L&C unit, Tracy is highly involved in the Special Focus Facility selection process and the state’s efforts to improve quality of care and quality of life in compliance challenged homes in her state. Tracy has a degree in Sociology from Lincoln University. Carol Shockley
is the director of the Office of Long Term Care in the Division of
Medical Services of the Arkansas Department of Human Services.
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Sharon I. Eloranta, MD, see C5.
Mary Ellen Palowitch is a hospital program analyst in the Division of
Acute Care Services of the Survey and Certification Group in the Centers
for Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Plan, and Survey &
Certification at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in
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Dr. Tom Geary earned his M.D. in 1974 from
Louisiana State
University School of Medicine,
NOLA. His
internship was with Charity Hospital of
New Orleans and his
residency with the
University of Alabama Medical Center in
Birmingham, Alabama.
Dr. Geary was in private practice from 1977 to 2007 and served as
Medical Director of several
Alabama nursing
homes between 1994 and 2007. He joined the staff of the Bureau of Health
Provider Standards, Alabama Department of Public Health, in September,
2007, and serves as the Medical Director of the
Alabama state
agency and as the current agency interim Director.
Ralph Lollar serves as
Director of the Division of Long Term Services and Supports for CMS.
He comes to CMS with over 30 years of experience in the disabled
community. Mr. Lollar has
worked in both institutional and HCBS settings and has served in a
number of varied position which have allowed him to experience the
systems that serve the community at many different levels.
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Steve Kelly currently works for
the Kent Police Department.
He has been a police officer over 28 years,
and a police detective for the last 17 years.
He works in the major crimes unit that
investigates crimes against persons, and primarily investigates violent
crimes such as homicide, robbery, serious assaults, domestic violence
crimes, sex crimes and crimes against children. Kathleen (Kathy) Van Olst graduated from the University of Santa Clara in 1981 with a degree in political science. In 1983, she graduated with a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Washington. In 1990, she graduated from Catholic University School of Law. Over the past decade, Kathy has successfully prosecuted dozens of felony cases including homicides and other violent crime, particularly in the area of domestic violence and sexual assault. In addition, she has supervised juvenile and adult domestic violence prosecution. In 2007, Kathy was named to the position of Chief of the Complex Prosecutions and Investigations ("CPI") Division. The CPI Division employed 13 lawyers working on complex economic crime, elder abuse, and special police investigations. Within this Division, dedicated attorneys are assigned to assist in the investigation and prosecution of elder financial and physical abuse and neglect matters. Since February of 2010, Kathy has worked in the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office as a Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for the Elder Abuse Project. Kathy is one of two attorneys assigned to assist in the investigation and prosecution of elder financial exploitation, physical and sexual abuse and neglect cases.
Mary Moran graduated from the
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Ellen M. Berry, PT, Technical Director, Division of National Systems. Ellen is the CMS technical director for data specifications and data collection for the MDS 3.0, OASIS-C, and IRF-PAI assessment tools. She has more than 15 years of experience as a physical therapist and rehabilitation manager. She has spent more than 10 years in the long-term care and skilled nursing facility settings. She has received multiple awards for her work on SNF issues, post-acute care payment reform demonstration and nursing home value based purchasing, including two Administrator’s Achievement Awards, an Administrator’s Citation, a Chief Operating Officer’s Award, and a Secretary of Human Health Service award. Ellen was instrumental to the development and implementation of the MDS 3.0 and RUG-IV. She was also involved in designing the CARE tool and the design and implementation of the PAC demo.
Tom Dudley has been with CMS
since 2000 and is a Technical Advisor in the Division of Chronic and
Post Acute Care in the Office of Clinical Standards and Quality.
Duties include the
development and public reporting of ESRD and Nursing Home quality
measures and overseeing the development and implementation of MDS
3.0.Past CMS projects have included the development of ESRD and Nursing
Home quality measures for public reporting as well as several of the
search instruments on
www.medicare.gov
including the Prescription Drug Plan Finder and Online Enrollment
Center, Dialysis Facility Compare, Nursing Home Compare (associated with
the Nursing Home Quality Initiative), Your Medicare Coverage, and the
Medicare Eligibility Tool.
Professional health care background spans
over 25 years in the public and private sectors with experience in the
planning, implementation and management of multidisciplinary health care
programs.
Clinical nephrology
experience includes acute and chronic dialysis, hemodialysis and
peritoneal dialysis, pediatrics and adults, transplantation, and general
nephrology. Jack Williams is the Director of the Division of National Systems in the Finance, Systems, and Budget Group of the Center for Medicaid and State Operations. During his 27+ years of service in the Federal Government, Mr. Williams has worked for the Department of Defense, the Social Security Administration (SSA), and for the past 20 years in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ( CMS .) Mr. Williams has worked in computer systems development for 24 years with SSA and CMS . At SSA he was responsible for the maintaining the Master Beneficiary Record and the Treasury files. At CMS , Mr. Williams has worked with the Peer Review/Quality Improvement Organizations systems, the Survey and Certification Online Survey, Certification and Reporting (OSCAR) system, and the Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (QIES.) He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Baltimore.. Alice Bonner
has been a geriatric nurse practitioner for the past 20 years. From
2009-2011, Dr. Bonner was the Director of the Bureau of Health Care
Safety and Quality at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in
Boston, MA. She is currently the Director for the Division of Nursing
Homes in the Center for Medicaid, CHIP and Survey and Certification
within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) at the US
Department of Health and Human Services in Baltimore, MD. Her research
interests include improving nursing home quality, patient safety culture
in health care organizations, safe medication prescribing and
management, falls prevention and improving care transitions across
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