Matt Boettcher has more than 30 years of leadership, teaching, and direct care roles in Case Management and Social Work. He has been system Vice President of Case Management with responsibilities for 13 hospitals, post-acute settings, and more than 40 outpatient clinics, ACO oversight for risk-based contracts, Director and Manager of Case Management in large urban hospitals, and Clinical Director for an outpatient mental health program. He has more than 20 years with the Center for Case Management and has functioned as an Interim Director, assessments of both inpatient and outpatient case management departments, mentoring, teaching, and providing educational sessions.

Matt is a frequent national speaker and quoted content expert on topics including the development of RN/MSW Case Management teams, health care strategies for uninsured/undocumented patients, and reducing the length of stay in high acuity patients. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Bethany College, a Master’s of Science in Social Work from Columbia University, and holds a Case Management Administrator Certified (CMAC).

Greta Fowinkle, DNP, RN, CMAC, has nearly 30 years of nursing experience, including 13 years as a NICU staff nurse, Case Management administrator, and clinical teacher in the United States and Australia. In 2009, she became certified as a Case Management Administrator. She received her DNP from Vanderbilt University School of Nursing in 2011.

Dr. Fowinkle has served as the Director of Case Management and Utilization Management at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Director of Case Management at MUSC, and Sr. Director of Care Transitions at UAB. She was listed in the 2011 Who’s Who list of top hospital Directors of Case Management. She also served as an instructor at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and at MUSC College of Nursing.

Titus E. Gambrell DNP, MSN, RN, ACM, CMAC, has over 40 years of experience in healthcare, dedicating more than 80 percent to leadership. Titus has facilitated realizations of vision and accomplishment, through entry-level work experiences and advanced education, building a strong foundation for progressive roles in leadership and professional consulting. He is known to be very effective as a mentor, change agent, and stabilizer, through deliberate and considerate development of individuals, work teams and organizations.   

Titus’ greatest professional joy is developing interprofessional teams and helping others achieve self-actualization. His leadership service encompasses middle and executive-level positions, including most recently serving as the System Chief Nursing Officer and Vice-President for a diverse health care organization with urban and rural hospitals, clinics and services all along the care continuum.  Each of his leadership roles involved direct or indirect reporting structure(s) for case management department/services, including acute, outpatient and post-acute settings.   

Patrick Hernandez, Dr. BH, MSW, LMSW, BSS, BA, is a passionate and dedicated high-performing analytical leader and consulting associate with experience spanning over 23 years in healthcare, behavioral health, and consulting. Before starting his own successful counseling infirm in the Southwest, Patrick successfully led and managed multiple-hospital departments by dynamic and creative leadership. He has led psychiatric hospital redesigns, utilizing executive partnering strategies while implementing core transition management analytics to drive financial discipline while improving patient clinical outcomes.

As an influential educator and communicator, Patrick provided field education for graduate students, was a speaker/educator for a leadership development institute and dedicated a decade of work towards improving the lives of stroke survivors.

Patrick earned a doctorate in behavioral health and a master’s in social work from Arizona State University, where he specialized in Clinical Psychotherapy and Direct Practice, and a Bachelor of Arts in Social Science and History from California State University Fresno.

Shawna G. Kates is a Consulting Associate who brings a deep knowledge of case management processes and social work from her former positions including Corporate Director of Case Management, Social Work and Discharge Planning for several multi-hospital systems in New Jersey and Philadelphia. As an Interim Director of Case Management, Shawna’s skills in Rapid Re-design have been successfully employed by health systems in Michigan, Tennessee, and Maine.

Shawna’s expertise lies in the development of patient care delivery models, financial recovery, and case management programs, with a focus on enhancing and distinguishing the role of social work.

Jean Lefebvre, RN, CCM has over 34 years of combined nursing and case management experience. Throughout her career, she has led teams and projects in Acute Care Case Management, Utilization Review/Management, Discharge Planning, Managed Care, Clinical Documentation Improvement, Transitions of Care and Population Health Coordination. She is process-oriented and strives to improve efficiencies and develop appropriate solutions for health systems. She has led many process improvement projects, including Emergency Room Utilization and Multidisciplinary Rounds, and has developed and implemented new programs, such as Care Management infrastructure and Outpatient Care Management staffing models.

Jean’s coaching approach is central to her leadership style, while she collaborates with health systems to advance visionary change and meet their challenging and exciting goals.

Jean Maslan has over 20 years of experience leading Case Management and Clinical Services at various healthcare entities. She is well versed in training, implementation, fiscal responsibility and vision. Jean has uncompromising conduct of service excellence, which relates to patient safety, satisfaction and outcomes. She is a promoter of performance, education, satisfaction and retention. Jean is a persuasive motivator who can align department strategies with business goals. She is adept at ensuring team inclusion and engagement while effectively partnering with department leaders and clinicians to achieve common objectives.

Jean has a Master’s in Health Administration and has certifications in Case Management (ACM) and Care Coordination Transition Management (CCTM). In addition to consulting over the past 7 years, she has also held positions as Director of Care Management for an acute care not-for-profit community hospital system as well as a tertiary medical center.

Anne Mosomillo, MBA, BSN, RN, CMAC, CPHQ is a Consulting Associate with 35+ years of experience in care management, utilization management, and care transitions and related work in the areas of denials management, revenue cycle, clinical documentation improvement, performance improvement and accreditation compliance. Anne brings a wealth of knowledge in program assessment, model design and implementation.  She developed and directed successful hospital initiatives to redesign and integrate separate utilization, case management and discharge planning operations, roles and functions within a five-hospital system.

As a CFCM Consultant, Anne created a Playbook for targeted LOS and one-day stays for a 10-hospital system with targeted CM Director education in regulatory compliance and System goals. She served as Interim Director at large regional medical centers, driving various initiatives such as length of stay, clinical denials and readmission reduction, redesign/implementation of unit multidisciplinary rounds, CM model and role changes, leadership development and staff education. Anne’s leadership style is transformational resulting in an outcomes-driven, collaborative approach to meeting organizational needs and goals. 

Sara Molstad, MSW, LICSW, has success and experience driving results in care management and program development, eagerly serving for more than 25 years with a focus on collaboration and staff development. She has served as Director of Care Management, Psychology, Psychiatry, Neuropsychology and Outpatient Services—directing multidisciplinary care management teams in long and short-term acute care hospitals and children’s hospitals focusing on lean processes and strategies to drive results.

Sara has a passion for contributing to the community, with a focus on public health and public service. Her work in the community earned her the Karis Humanitarian Award, an award designated by the Mayo Clinic Sponsorship Board.

Heidi Rohloff, RN, BSN, MSN, ACNP is a consulting associate. Her expansive clinical experience spans across the continuum of care in various clinical roles such as nurse manager for home care, Director of Care Management and Quality, clinical process engineer and nurse practitioner. She is certified as a six sigma lean green belt and has led many clinical teams with process improvement projects, both at the hospital and health system levels. Heidi works clinically as a Nurse Practitioner in Emergency Medicine with experience with ED Observation unit. She has developed and implemented numerous ED clinical protocols. Her expertise led her to do site assessments of client emergency departments with gap analysis, and action plans to monitor improvements.

Heidi holds a BSN from Madonna University, MSN from Wayne State University, and a post-graduate certificate as Acute Care Nurse Practitioner from Madonna University. She wrote her graduate dissertation on “Effects of Continuing Education on Nursing Case Management” where her work supported education for nurses to receive the skills to case manage their patients effectively and efficiently.

Peter Underwood, RN BSN, MBA CCM, is a registered nurse with over 30 years of practice. He has worked as an effective leader for care management transformation, successfully implementing and redesigning public and private hospital care management models. Peter has a focus on information systems, model design, and staffing solutions with staffing retention. He is a leader in commercial and public health plans, launching population health initiatives and enhanced case management. He has a strong emphasis on building relationships to foster network integration of healthcare services across systems.

Peter has broad experience within the hospital, physician group practice, and health plan environments. He’s a seasoned analytic with clinical and financial assessment skills, integrating clinical performance and programs, promoting quality, and utilizing metrics to reduce health care costs.

Deborah Zeveney is a consulting associate with The Center for Case Management. With over 40 years in healthcare, and 30 years in Case Management, she has developed significant knowledge in this industry. Before joining The Center for Case Management, she served as a Director of Case Management and Clinical Documentation Improvement for the HCA West Florida Division. Earlier, she has served in a variety of roles in Case Management, Nursing, and Education in acute care and insurance settings.

Deborah graduated from the Geisinger Medical Center School of Nursing with a Diploma in Registered Nursing and from St. Joseph’s College, Maine with a BSPA in Health Administration. She earned a Master of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of Scranton.