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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.
Senior Health Care Consultant
Sharon Brickhouse Martin is a senior health care consultant with expertise in organizational and operational evaluation and improvement. Her skills include business process reengineering, management development and team building, and information systems utilization. Ms. Martin’s clients have included teaching and non-teaching hospitals, hospices and health systems, physician associations, information systems and supply vendors, managed care organizations, and military and government health care organizations. She is the Founder and President of Brickhouse Martin Healthcare Engineering, which works to sustain improvements and manage change using proven engineering analyses. In this capacity, she manages the firm’s information technology services.
President, Oncology, Medically Home Group
Patricia “Patty” M.C. Brown is a health care industry leader in population health and managed care, expert in leveraging market incentives to drive changes in health care delivery and financing to achieve improved health and reduced cost at the patient, population and community levels. Ms. Brown currently serves as president, Oncology, for Medically Home Group, an organization transforming health care by providing all necessary intellectual property and technology to safely shift advanced medical care from hospitals to patients’ homes.
Vice President, Rural Health & Underserved Health Initiatives, Medically Home Group
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.
Chairman of the Board, Educare DC; Co-Chairman, Raise DC
Wendy Goldberg has a long and committed interest in advocating for children's health, education and well-being. She served as the chair of the Children's National Advocacy and Public Policy Institute until 2018, which established official policy positions and engagement strategies on children's health for Children's National Hospital.
Executive Managing Member, Grammer & Associates and Member, Strategic Solutions Partners
Chair
Neil Grammer is Executive Managing Member, Grammer & Associates and Member, Strategic Solutions Partners and provides accounting, audit and advisory services to hospitality, healthcare and non-profit organizations including Enterprise Risk Assessments. Internal Control Design and Testing, SOX Readiness Assessments, SOX Testing, Property Audits, Privacy Compliance Assessments and Fraud Investigations.
Advocates for Justice and Education
Ms. LaJoy Johnson-Law, a community activist and advocate, is a Ward 8 resident with a beautiful special need’s daughter named Abria. Ms. Johnson-Law invests in fundamental and substantial changes in the education community in DC, especially for children with differing abilities. She previously served as a Board Member at AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School and currently sits on the Parents Amplifying Voices in Education (PAVE) Board and Thrive by Coordinating Council as a parent member. She is a parent leader at Rocketship Public Charter School, where Abria is enrolled in the 3rd Grade. Ms. Johnson-Law is constantly inspired by her daughter, who was born very prematurely at 23 weeks and 1 pound 6 ounces. Abria is a miracle baby.
Chief Executive Officer, Jones Holding Corporation, LLC; Director, One Madison Group
Michael A. Jones currently serves as the Vice Chairman and Managing Director, North America for Ranpak Holdings (NYSE: PACK) since September 2019. Prior, Jones was a board member with One Madison Group (NYSE: OMAD), New York. One Madison Group combined with Ranpak in the summer of 2019. Jones also served as EVP and Chief Customer Officer of Lowe’s Companies, Inc. from May 2014 through October 2016. In this role, Jones was responsible for store environment, merchandising, customer experience, marketing, strategy and research for Lowe’s U.S. stores operations. Prior to this role, Jones served as SVP and Chief Merchandising Officer for Lowe’s.
President of the Kuhmerker Consulting Group, LLC
Kathryn Kuhmerker is the President of The Kuhmerker Consulting Group, LLC and the former Medicaid Director of New York State. Her responsibilities include advising clients within the areas of pay-for-performance programs, health care for the uninsured, long term care, and the management and implementation of government operated programs in other fields.
Consultant, Kew Consulting
Karen Williamson is an independent consultant with KEW Consulting in Washington, DC. Her consulting practice offers business development, project management, marketing, writing/editing, and strategic planning services.
