Tag: Ken Albert

NAHC Board of Directors Update: Strategic Plan & Personnel

A new strategic plan and the composition of the 2023 NAHC Board of Directors were both approved and finalized at the December 5th meeting of the Board. The strategic plan, which was announced at the 2022 Home Care and Hospice Conference and Expo in St. Louis in October, was also presented to NAHC membership for…

Grassroots Advocacy and Storytelling at NAHC 2022

The Tuesday General Session of Day 3 of the 2022 Home Care and Hospice Conference and Expo opened with advocacy, as NAHC President Bill Dombi introduced Director of Government Affairs for Calvin McDaniel and Summer Napier, the president of Healing Hands Healthcare in Texas and coordinator of NAHC’s grassroots advocacy efforts, to discuss the importance of…

NAHC Board Chair Selected for Hospice Special Focus Program TEP

The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 required the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to implement various hospice survey reforms. In the CY 2022 Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS) final rule, CMS addressed these reforms, including development of a Hospice Special Focus Program (SFP).  NAHC was one of the stakeholders at the time…

Why Should You Advocate for Home Care & Hospice? This is Why.

Wednesday, September 14 REGISTER (required) Home health providers are facing a devastating payment cut. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) wants Congress to slash the hospice cap. Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) rates continue to be woefully inadequate. Despite unprecedented labor and inflationary challenges, care-in-the-home providers of all kinds continue to lack the policy supports…

FMC 2022: Leadership and a Fight for Home Health Care

Day two of the 2022 Financial Management Conference (FMC) began with more education, but in many ways the highlight of the day was one of the most popular features of the conference every year, the leadership panel. Officially titled “Home Care and Hospice Leadership Panel: A Practical View from Outside of Washington,” The leadership panel…

Meet the 2022 NAHC Board of Directors

The National Association for Home Care & Hospice has a new Board of Directors for 2022, featuring a new Board Chair, but the most important thing, a relentless committment to improving NAHC and making it a better advocate for providers of care in the home and their patients, has not changed at all.

“NAHC 2.0 is blessed with a very high level of interest and engagement in the NAHC Board, committees, and advisory councils,” said NAHC President William A. Dombi, who has worked closely with the Board to transform the association. “The 2022 Board is deep in talent and commitment. Congratulations to the 2022 officers, Ken Albert, Chair; Billy Simione, Treasurer; and Melissa Jeremiah, Secretary. A special thanks goes to Mary Myers, the Board Chair for the past three years, and to Brent Korte, the outgoing Secretary of the Board. The entire home care community can count on the continuing leadership and support from the NAHC Board in 2022.”

New Board Chair Kenneth Albert is the President and Chief Executive Officer for Androscoggin Home Healthcare and Hospice in Maine. Prior to his appointment to those positions in June of 2016, Ken served as the Director and Chief Operating Office of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Director of the Division of Licensing and Regulatory Services within the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. Before joining the Department in March 2012, Ken practiced law for several years in Lewiston, Maine, specializing in health law, professional licensing, and regulatory and compliance law.

Ken was first elected to the hospice seat on the NAHC Board in 2019 and again in 2021. He chairs NAHC’s Public Policy Committee and the Hospice Advisory Committee.

“I am incredibly honored to have been elected Chairperson of the Board of Directors for NAHC,” Ken Albert told NAHC Report. “Serving on the Board for the last three years, my respect endures for the important work that NAHC achieves for its members and the patients and families that we all serve. As a  sector of the health care delivery continuum, home based health care continues to evolve as a vitally necessary service for millions of Americans. We are increasingly integral partners for our hospitals, medical practices, and health care facilities in the communities we serve. Medicare, Medicaid and other third-party payer beneficiaries – from birth to end of life – rely on the care we provide to achieve quality outcomes and enhance overall quality of life. I look forward to working with the talented NAHC team, your dedicated Board of Directors and all of our remarkable members as we navigate together the many changing dynamics of the health care delivery system in the United States.”

Ken’s background is rich in medical experience, including seventeen years of clinical practice in emergency and intensive care settings. In that time, Ken served as Director of Emergency Services at Central Maine Medical Center (CMMC), as the Administrator of the Occupational Health Center affiliated with CMMC, and as the Lewiston Site Manager for LifeFlight of Maine. Additionally, Ken spent five years as a traveling critical care nurse working in metropolitan, rural and tribal communities across the United States. He also served for several years as an adjunct faculty member at New England College where he taught Legal Issues in Health Care Administration.

Ken presently serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for Maine College of Health Professions.

Read on to learn more about the entire Board of Directors.

Kenneth Albert, Chair

  • Hospice
  • President/CEO
  • Androscoggin Home Healthcare & Hospice
  • Elected Term: 01/01/2022-12/31/2024

 

Melissa Jeremiah, Secretary

  • Home Health
  • Director of Operations
  • Hoosier Uplands Home Health Care and Hospice
  • Elected Term: 01/01/2022-12/31/2024

 

William Simione III, Treasurer

  • Managing Principal
  • Simione Healthcare Consultants
  • Appointed Term: 01/01/2022-12/31/2024

 

Sheldon Retchin

  • Non-Home Care Appointment
  • Senior Advisor to President
  • Health Sciences Administration
  • The Ohio State University
  • Appointed Term: 01/01/2022-12/31/2024

 

Marcylle Combs

  • Business Partner
  • Owner
  • MAC Legacy
  • Elected Term: 01/01/2022-12/31/2024

 

Mary Myers

  • Integrated Health System Provider & Immediate Past Chair
  • President/CEO
  • Johns Hopkins Home Care
  • Elected Term: 01/01/2020-12/31/2022
  • Ex-Officio term set to begin after elected term expries

 

Rod Windley

  • At-Large Board Member
  • Executive Chairman
  • Aveanna
  • Elected Term: 01/01/2020-12/31/2022

 

Sara Ratcliffe

  • Forum of State Associations
  • Executive Director
  • Illinois HomeCare & Hospice Council
  • Elected Term: 01/01/2020-12/31/2022

 

Kathleen Sullivan, PhD, RN

  • Vice President, Post-Acute Care and Health Services Operations
  • Dignity Health® CA Central Coast
  • Appointed Term: 01/01/2020-12/31/2022

 

Jason E. Bring

  • Partner, Healthcare Group
  • Arnall Golden Gregory LLP
  • Appointed Term: 01/01/2020-12/31/2022

Beth Slepian, MBA, PT

  • President & CEO
  • Granite VNA
  • Appointed Term: 01/01/2021-12/31/2023)

 

Susan Ponder-Stansel

  • President & CEO
  • Alivia Care, Inc.
  • Appointed Term: 01/01/2021-12/31/2023

 

John Olajide

  • Business Partner
  • CEO
  • Axxess, Inc.
  • Elected Term: 01/01/2021-12/31/2023

 

David Totaro

  • Private Duty
  • BAYADA Home Health Care
  • Elected Term: 01/01/2021-12/31/2023

 

David Causby

National Provider

  • President, SVP Home Health
  • Kindred Care at Home
  • Elected Term: 01/01/2021-12/31/2023

 

Ex-Officios

William A. Dombi, Esq.

  • President
  • National Association for Home Care & Hospice

Meet the 2022 NAHC Board of Directors

The National Association for Home Care & Hospice has a new Board of Directors for 2022, featuring a new Board Chair, but the most important thing, a relentless committment to improving NAHC and making it a better advocate for providers of care in the home and their patients, has not changed at all.

“NAHC 2.0 is blessed with a very high level of interest and engagement in the NAHC Board, committees, and advisory councils,” said NAHC President William A. Dombi, who has worked closely with the Board to transform the association. “The 2022 Board is deep in talent and commitment. Congratulations to the 2022 officers, Ken Albert, Chair; Billy Simione, Treasurer; and Melissa Jeremiah, Secretary. A special thanks goes to Mary Myers, the Board Chair for the past three years, and to Brent Korte, the outgoing Secretary of the Board. The entire home care community can count on the continuing leadership and support from the NAHC Board in 2022.”

New Board Chair Kenneth Albert is the President and Chief Executive Officer for Androscoggin Home Healthcare and Hospice in Maine. Prior to his appointment to those positions in June of 2016, Ken served as the Director and Chief Operating Office of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Director of the Division of Licensing and Regulatory Services within the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. Before joining the Department in March 2012, Ken practiced law for several years in Lewiston, Maine, specializing in health law, professional licensing, and regulatory and compliance law.

Ken was first elected to the hospice seat on the NAHC Board in 2019 and again in 2021. He chairs NAHC’s Public Policy Committee and the Hospice Advisory Committee.

“I am incredibly honored to have been elected Chairperson of the Board of Directors for NAHC,” Ken Albert told NAHC Report. “Serving on the Board for the last three years, my respect endures for the important work that NAHC achieves for its members and the patients and families that we all serve. As a  sector of the health care delivery continuum, home based health care continues to evolve as a vitally necessary service for millions of Americans. We are increasingly integral partners for our hospitals, medical practices, and health care facilities in the communities we serve. Medicare, Medicaid and other third-party payer beneficiaries – from birth to end of life – rely on the care we provide to achieve quality outcomes and enhance overall quality of life. I look forward to working with the talented NAHC team, your dedicated Board of Directors and all of our remarkable members as we navigate together the many changing dynamics of the health care delivery system in the United States.”

Ken’s background is rich in medical experience, including seventeen years of clinical practice in emergency and intensive care settings. In that time, Ken served as Director of Emergency Services at Central Maine Medical Center (CMMC), as the Administrator of the Occupational Health Center affiliated with CMMC, and as the Lewiston Site Manager for LifeFlight of Maine. Additionally, Ken spent five years as a traveling critical care nurse working in metropolitan, rural and tribal communities across the United States. He also served for several years as an adjunct faculty member at New England College where he taught Legal Issues in Health Care Administration.

Ken presently serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for Maine College of Health Professions.

Read on to learn more about the entire Board of Directors.

Kenneth Albert, Chair

  • Hospice
  • President/CEO
  • Androscoggin Home Healthcare & Hospice
  • Elected Term: 01/01/2022-12/31/2024

 

Melissa Jeremiah, Secretary

  • Home Health
  • Director of Operations
  • Hoosier Uplands Home Health Care and Hospice
  • Elected Term: 01/01/2022-12/31/2024

 

William Simione III, Treasurer

  • Managing Principal
  • Simione Healthcare Consultants
  • Appointed Term: 01/01/2022-12/31/2024

 

Sheldon Retchin

  • Non-Home Care Appointment
  • Senior Advisor to President
  • Health Sciences Administration
  • The Ohio State University
  • Appointed Term: 01/01/2022-12/31/2024

 

Marcylle Combs

  • Business Partner
  • Owner
  • MAC Legacy
  • Elected Term: 01/01/2022-12/31/2024

 

Mary Myers

  • Integrated Health System Provider & Immediate Past Chair
  • President/CEO
  • Johns Hopkins Home Care
  • Elected Term: 01/01/2020-12/31/2022
  • Ex-Officio term set to begin after elected term expries

 

Rod Windley

  • At-Large Board Member
  • Executive Chairman
  • Aveanna
  • Elected Term: 01/01/2020-12/31/2022

 

Sara Ratcliffe

  • Forum of State Associations
  • Executive Director
  • Illinois HomeCare & Hospice Council
  • Elected Term: 01/01/2020-12/31/2022

 

Kathleen Sullivan, PhD, RN

  • Vice President, Post-Acute Care and Health Services Operations
  • Dignity Health® CA Central Coast
  • Appointed Term: 01/01/2020-12/31/2022

 

Jason E. Bring

  • Partner, Healthcare Group
  • Arnall Golden Gregory LLP
  • Appointed Term: 01/01/2020-12/31/2022

Beth Slepian, MBA, PT

  • President & CEO
  • Granite VNA
  • Appointed Term: 01/01/2021-12/31/2023)

 

Susan Ponder-Stansel

  • President & CEO
  • Alivia Care, Inc.
  • Appointed Term: 01/01/2021-12/31/2023

 

John Olajide

  • Business Partner
  • CEO
  • Axxess, Inc.
  • Elected Term: 01/01/2021-12/31/2023

 

David Totaro

  • Private Duty
  • BAYADA Home Health Care
  • Elected Term: 01/01/2021-12/31/2023

 

David Causby

National Provider

  • President, SVP Home Health
  • Kindred Care at Home
  • Elected Term: 01/01/2021-12/31/2023

 

Ex-Officios

William A. Dombi, Esq.

  • President
  • National Association for Home Care & Hospice

Meet the 2022 NAHC Board of Directors

The National Association for Home Care & Hospice has a new Board of Directors for 2022, featuring a new Board Chair, but the most important thing, a relentless committment to improving NAHC and making it a better advocate for providers of care in the home and their patients, has not changed at all. “NAHC 2.0…

Results from the NAHC Board of Directors Elections

One of the long-standing annual traditions is to announce the results of the Board of Directors Elections during the opening general session of the Home Care and Hospice Conference and Expo.  Though we are not together this year and miss being with and connecting at the Annual Conference, NAHC held a Board of Directors election…

New NAHC Webinar: COVID-19 Response for Hospice Inpatient Units

The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) will present a new webinar, How Hospice Inpatient Units are Preparing and Responding to the Threat of COVID-19:  A Community Conversation, on Friday, March 27 at 11:00 AM Eastern Time. This webinar is free to all, but registration is required. REGISTER NOW! Hospices are facing tremendous challenges…