Dr. Mary McLaughlin Davis became a certified care manager in 1993. She has provided care coordination services for inpatients, outpatients, and health care plans.

As a Clinical nurse specialist, Dr. McLaughlin Davis has worked extensively with patients having chronic disease, notably congestive heart failure and stroke. She is a Senior Director of Care Management for three of the Cleveland Clinic‘s community hospitals and a guest lecturer at Ursuline College.

Dr. McLaughlin Davis serves as national immediate past president for the Case Management Society of America (CMSA). She is on The Public Policy Committee for CMSA and for the Nursing Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. She speaks on care coordination topics across the country. She recently published the Case Management Guide to Population Health through HCPro.

As Executive Director, Population Health, for Genesis Health System, Priscilla leads population health initiatives system-wide and leadership and strategic direction for all Genesis ACO operations. Prior to joining Genesis Health System in 2016, Priscilla served as the ACO Director at UT Southwestern in Dallas, TX. Her career has focused on health care operations, strategic development and population health. In addition to health care consulting, she has held executive roles with several leading national organizations including the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), Carefirst Blue Cross Blue Shield of Maryland and The University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, TX. Priscilla obtained her undergraduate degree from Texas A&M; and her Masters from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.

Kimberly Zukowski, LMSW, CCM, Director of Care Coordination, has worked for WellStar Health System since 2009. Leading and defining the guidelines for a 40-member Care Coordination team, Mrs. Zukowski serves as a liaison and expert in both utilization review and discharge planning to medical staff, payors and hospital administration in the collaborative quest to best serve patients and enhance their experience throughout the continuum of care. Previously, Mrs. Zukowski worked for HCA’s Cartersville Medical Center for six years, where she was responsible for utilization review and discharge planning for up to 50 patients per day. She holds a Masters of Social Work from the University of Georgia and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Georgia State University with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. Additionally, Mrs. Zukowski has held her certification in Case Management (CCM) since 2015.

Mrs. Zukowski’s passion for the care of others extends far beyond the hospital setting. Since 2016, she has served on the Board of Directors for the community outreach program, Jacob’s Healing Hands, an organization that supplies home health services and medical equipment to those in need. She’s also a hero to our four-legged friends, having aided in dog rescue and foster services. A whiz behind the camera, Mrs. Zukowski enjoys photography and travelling, as well as history, reading, and spending time with her husband of 20 years, Mark, and their dogs Veruca, Slugworth and Violet.

Denise Keefe is a senior-level health care executive with more than 25 years of industry experience. She is the Executive Vice President of AdvocateAurora Health and President of AdvocateAurora Post Acute Division. AdvocateAurora Health is one of the largest integrated healthcare systems in the U.S serving Illinois and Wisconsin. As President, Keefe is responsible for overall strategic direction, fiscal management, business development, clinical, quality and human resource management of 4,000 employees.

Keefe is a results-oriented executive with competencies to grow a business and increase its profitability. Under her leadership, the Post Acute Division has made significant contributions to AdvocateAurora Health’s population health strategy including the single greatest driver of shared savings for Advocate’s ACO. Keefe has led her team to develop and implement a comprehensive post acute network of services necessary to successfully manage population health, risk based contracts and bundled payments. Her related experience includes:

• Developed and implemented the Post Acute Strategy for AdvocateAurora Health to support the AdvocateAurora vision. This strategy is critical to successfully manage Advocate’s 1,300,000 attributed and full risk lives.
• Implemented care model for patients in skilled nursing facilities to improve health outcomes for patients and reduce the total cost of care. Results include an over 10% reduction in readmissions and cost savings of $40 million to the Advocate Medicare Shared Savings Program over two years.
• Implemented Palliative Care program for acute, outpatient and home-based settings. Program drove a 41% reduction in total cost of care for patients enrolled in the palliative care home-based service.
• Consistently deliver successful financial results of the Home Health Care Division with revenue and operating margin improvement year over year despite continued reimbursement reductions.

In addition to her role as President of Advocate Post Acute Division, Keefe serves on the Board of Directors for Advocate Physician Partners Accountable Care. She is a member of the Board for the Chicago American Cancer Society. Keefe served as faculty at DePaul University, Graduate School of Public Health and Rush University, Graduate School of Health Systems Management. Keefe was also recognized as one of the top 40 Chicago executives under 40 by Crain’s Chicago Business. She holds a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration from Bowling Green State University and a Masters of Business Administration from Northern Illinois University.

I am the Medical Director of a suite of post-acute services provided through the Mission health system which include palliative Care (both Inpatient and outpatient) Home Health Service, PACE, Hospice (IP/OP), Skilled Nursing Facility, Inpatient Rehabilitation hospital, Outpatient rehab services(PT/OT/ST), Private Duty, and association with Orthotics and Prosthetics, DME, and an LTACH). My passion is the effective transition of care for patients moving from one venue of care to any other venue. Handoffs that are clear, comprehensive and timely are the holy grail of effective healthcare. My training background is Family Practice for 19 yrs in both employed and independent private practice. For the past 12 years I have been in leadership of the post-acute venue and clinical practice in multiple disciplines.

Mackenzie Moore is the Senior Business Operations Manager for Care Coordination at Emory Healthcare. She has over 10 years of experience in social work, case management, accountable care organization contract models, care coordination operations and post-acute provider network development. Her various work experience has driven her dedication to the systematic evolution and innovation of care coordination operations and value based care delivery for patients, providers and healthcare systems. She currently works as the system lead to develop and manage Emory Healthcare’s post-acute provider network with includes preferred provider arrangements across the continuum of care including: Home health, SNF/SAR, DME, home infusion, hospice, LTAC, acute rehab. She also facilitates various system projects related to Revenue cycle enhancement, discharge planning and patient throughput.

She has a Masters in Business Administration from Georgia State University, a Masters in Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis and a Bachelors of Science in Childhood and Family Development from the University of Georgia.

Louise Simpson works for the UW Medicine Health System and is the Administrator for Post-Acute Care (PAC). The UW Medicine Health System includes two academic medical centers, two community hospitals, a large primary and urgent care network, a physician practice plan, an air ambulance service, and the University of Washington School of Medicine.

Ms. Simpson developed and oversees the UW Medicine Post Acute Care Network—a collaboration of 16 independently-owned skilled nursing facilities, 2 home health and hospice agencies, 1 adult day health program and 1 home care organization. In addition, she supervises a clinical team of 16 physicians and ARNPs who care for patients discharged from UW Medicine hospitals to Network SNFs.

The PAC portfolio of work includes pathways and tools to support safe and timely transitions of care, population-specific initiatives, a bed leasing program, an inpatient PAC consult service, and a real-time data analytics platform to improve quality of care across the continuum.

Louise has extensive experience in ambulatory operations and has led program development and care transformation efforts in both inpatient and outpatient settings and has a Masters in Health Administration from the University of Washington. She lives in Seattle where she enjoys backpacking, sea kayaking, and skiing.