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Effective July 15th, Health Services for Children with Special Needs (HSCSN) will implement Optum Financial/Optum Pay as the check payment vendor for provider electronic funds transfer (EFT). The details to the provider letter can be found in this document.
Dr. Linda Dunbar is the Vice President, Rural Health and Underserved Health Initiatives for Medically Home, a technology-enabled services company that provides tools to allow medical providers to safely shift advanced medical care from hospitals to patients’ home. In this role, Dr. Dunbar is responsible for solution, process and workflow design, performance metrics and oversight of programs that align with the Medically Home vision and strategic plan in rural and underserved health programs.
Previously, Dr. Dunbar served as Vice President, Population Health, at Johns Hopkins HealthCare and led the divisions of Population Health Management, Behavioral Health, and Research and Development to create, deliver and evaluate innovate population health management strategies in the areas of chronic disease, behavioral health conditions and substance use disorder. She was Director of Nursing at a pediatric rehabilitation hospital for eight years prior to her role at Johns Hopkins HealthCare.
She served as the executive leader of the Johns Hopkins University community intervention of the Health Care Innovation Award from Center for Medicaid and Medicare Innovation (CMMI) called JCHIP (Johns Hopkins Community Health Partnership), a three year, $20 million award. Additionally, she served as the leader of the CMMI Strong Start award called JCASE (Johns Hopkins Coordinated Antenatal Service Enhancement Maternity Care Home). Dr. Dunbar led the Community Health Partnership of Baltimore, a $45 million, 5-year grant funded by the State of Maryland, which brought together six Baltimore City hospitals to improve the care of complex Medicare beneficiaries. Dr. Dunbar has created and implemented international population health programs including case management, utilization management and lifestyle programs for Johns Hopkins Aramco Health in Saudi Arabia.
Dr. Dunbar completed a Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing and Health Policy from the University of Maryland, and a post-doctoral fellowship in Health Policy and Management from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her dissertation focused on the effectiveness of predictive models in children with special needs. She frequently taught and lectured at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and Schools of Nursing and Medicine on such topics as managed care, population health strategies, health policy and reform, risk adjustment, and research and evaluation.
