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Areas of Expertise
- Strategic Planning & Management
- Health Care Administration
- Clinical Program Design and Evaluation
- Long-Term Care System Management
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M. Colleen Elmer, M.S.W., M.B.A., LCSW, Executive Vice President & Senior
Associate, brings twenty years of experience as an administrator,
educator, and clinician. She has worked with a myriad of organizations
including: state and local governments, pharmaceutical companies, managed
care organizations, neurotechnology companies, and behavioral health and
social services providers. Her projects have included strategic planning,
clinical and operations reviews, marketing and business development,
process reengineering, human resource management and succession planning,
as well as a variety of large research projects.
Ms. Elmer served in senior management positions within the long-term
care industry including Administrator and Director of Assisted Living
Services at Messiah Village, Inc. in Pennsylvania. During her tenure as
Administrator, the facility was deficiency-free on all inspections and
received JCAHO accreditation. Ms. Elmer also created specialties in
assisted living, including two levels of dementia care, respite, and
hospice and redesigned all nursing care units into home-like
neighborhoods. Ms. Elmer is certified as a Retirement Housing Professional
at the Fellow level. She also served on a PANPHA subcommittee that helped
define Assisted Living in Pennsylvania and recommended changes to the
state on Assisted Living regulations.
Ms. Elmer served on faculty of Eastern University in both the Masters
of Health Care Administration and MBA programs. She was involved in the
re-design of the Health Care Administration program, including writing the
curricula for managed care, long-term care/aging, issues in management,
and health care informatics courses. She has also been a guest lecturer at
Messiah College, Temple University, and Shippensburg University. Ms. Elmer
has been a featured speaker for the Pennsylvania Adult Day Care
Association, the Pennsylvania Association for Non-Profit Homes for the
Aged, the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aged, the
National Council for Community Behavioral Health Care and the National
Association of Addiction Treatment Providers.
Her volunteer work includes serving on the board of directors of a
local MR/DD group home, and the Cumberland County drug and alcohol
commission. Ms. Elmer obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from
Messiah College, her Master’s degree in Social Work from Temple
University, and her Master’s in Business Administration from Eastern
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Monica E. Oss M. Colleen Elmer, M.S.W., M.B.A. J. Jay Mackie, Ph.D. John F. Talbot, Ph.D.
Senior Associates
Michael F. Barkey, M.S.W. Dee Brown, M.S.M. John K. Connors, M.Ed., LPC Michael LaRue, B.S., CPA Joseph P. Naughton-Travers, Ed.M. Daniel Y. Patterson, M.D.
Senior Consultants
Michael A. Acosta, M.S.W. Dan M. Aune, M.S.W. Michael P. Bannon Stewart Bloom, M.S.W., LCSW Deirde E. Brown Maureen M. Burke Dale Chadwick, M.B.A. Joan Chick, M.S.N., R.N. Stephen A. DaRe, M.B.A. Robert F. Elmer, M.B.A. Richard Galica, M.S. Rosemary V. Hutchison, CGFM Jess C. Jamieson, Ph.D., M.S.W. Wendy K. Kidd, M.A., L.P.C. Sheila P. Kochis, M.P.A., C.P.A. Gene F. Rosetti Joseph Rutherford, M.A., M.B.A. January H. Scott Glenn A. Smith Kasi Tiller Janice Walker, R.N., M.P.H., Ed.D. Borden Wilson
Consultants
Mark D. Berg Stacey L. Biggins Raymond A. Borbidge, SPHR Louise R. Gregg, M.H.A. Paul D. Mangan Billye Joyce Roberts Philip L. Sowders Sarah C. Threnhauser Belinda Hazelwood Willis, M.Ed.
Researchers
Laura L. Morgan Laura Rudisill
Sue Buelow, M.S. John Heffner, M.H.A. John Kingsley Holton, Ph.D. Sheila P. Kochis, C.P.A. John W. Kuenning, M.H.S. Karla McFarland, M.B.A. Nancy Thaler, M.S. |
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