OPEN MINDS Consultants & Advisors

Areas of Expertise

Dee Brown, M.S.M. OPEN MINDS Senior Associate brings a wealth of experience in operations management and business development to OPEN MINDS clients. In addition, Ms. Brown has operating experience with care management programs in both the behavioral health and the child welfare fields. Prior to joining the OPEN MINDS team, Dee Brown was the senior director of network development for Harmony Behavioral Health, the managed behavioral health subsidiary of Wellcare in Florida. In her role with Harmony Behavioral Health, Dee was responsible for network development and provider data integrity and website functionality She also served in a similar role, senior vice president of provider network services, while working with Magellan Health Services. In this role, she had national responsibility for all provider services (contracting, rate setting, data management, credentialing, network management and outreach), serving a network of over 50,000 individual professionals, 6,000 group practices, and 3,000 facilities and provider organizations.

In addition to this executive experience in managed behavioral health programs, Ms. Brown also has experience with the children?s services sector. As the chief operating officer for Foster America she was responsible for operating the company?s service location in Baltimore City overseeing a Title IV-E waiver in concert with the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Social Services and the University of Maryland in addition to providing oversight of the company operations with a budget of $8 million annually. She also worked with Devereux Foundation as the director of new business development, where she was responsible for national new business opportunities for programs for individuals of all ages who have a wide range of emotional and developmental disabilities.

Ms. Brown received both her Bachelor's degree in business and her Master's degree in management from Rosemont College in Rosemont, Pennsylvania.