Staff Changes at LeadingAge New York
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Staff Changes at LeadingAge New York
The last year has marked an exciting transition for LeadingAge New York . New initiatives , retirements and staff turnover have resulted in many new faces and some new roles for veteran staff .
Summary :
• Kathy Pellatt , is retiring at the end of the year and Susan Chenail will be the new senior quality improvement analyst .
• Darius Kirstein has new responsibilities as director of financial policy and analysis and has a dynamic new team consisting of Onur Bugdayci , senior research analyst and Ken Allison , policy analyst / data specialist . Ken spent many years with the association as an accountant before taking on this new challenge .
• Jeff Diamond has moved from to the position of government relations administrative assistant to government relations analyst .
• Lynn Kogut has joined the finance team as a bookkeeper .
• Nicole Hooks has joined as a coordinator with the policy and Value First teams .
• Marguerite Carroll has joined the Equip / Quality Apex team as a business development / sales liaison .
• Ashley Tejada has joined the policy team as a policy analyst .
Susan
What captured your interest about your new role ? I love Quality Improvement and crunching numbers . I am a data nerd .
What do you think you bring to the table ? 32 years of diverse nursing experience , leadership and love of computers .
Tell us a little about your background and experience ? I have been an RN for over 32 years . I have worked in a nursing facility , hospital , home care and liaison for a large hospitalbased organization . I am also a certified case manager .
What is one thing about you that would surprise people ? My family has a five-generation family-owned and -operated dairy farm .
Darius
What captured your interest about your new role ? The opportunity to work with a team of talented people to advance good public policy and provide tools for data-based decision making .
What do you think you bring to the table ? A hearty appetite . ( Also an enthusiastic belief that data can be turned into useful information that can support members in their important work serving elders .)
Tell us a little about your background and experience ? I ’ ve worked with financial and statistical data for over a decade and have been involved in learning and trying to explain changes in reimbursement methodologies and payment structures across the continuum .
Darius Kirstein Director of Financial Policy and Analysis
Susan Chenail Senior Quality
Improvement Analyst
What is one thing about you that would surprise people ? Duties of my first job after college included training llamas and chasing hot air balloons . ( Both llamas and balloons are more predictable than Medicaid reimbursement .)
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