Ines Digenio, MD
Medical Director, Special Care Center AtlantiCare
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Ines Digenio, MD, serves as Medical Director of AtlantiCare’s
Special Care Center (SCC) located at the William L. Gormley
HealthPlex, Atlantic City, New Jersey. As Medical Director,
Digenio oversees the treatment and diagnosis of all patients
at the SCC. The care team at the SCC includes physicians,
nurse practitioners, pharmacists, health coaches, clerical
and administrative staff, who partner with members to manage
their health. AtlantiCare collaborates with members’ primary
care physicians, if they have primary care physicians, to
manage their care. Members’ personal health coaches are in
constant contact with them and their care providers, keeping
everyone informed of care plans and progress. The SCC is a
one-stop shop for members’ appointments, prescriptions, lab
work and more, making this a convenient and efficient
approach to their health management.
Doctor Digenio
earned her medical doctor degree from the Universidad de la
Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay. She completed residencies in
Pediatrics at Pereyra Rossell Hospital, Universidad de la
Republica and at Johannesburg Hospital, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She also
completed her residency in Family Medicine at Middlesex
Hospital, Middletown, Connecticut.
Ines previously
served as medical director of Pulso Latinoamerica in Old
Lyme, Connecticut; pediatric and family practice physician
in Johannesburg, South Africa; attending pediatric
physician at the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa; as well as assistant professor
of Physiology and Biophysics at the Universidad de la
Republica Medical School in Montevideo, Uruguay.
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Sandra L. Festa,
LCSW, LCADC
Administrative Director Health Plex,
AtlantiCare
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Sandra L. Festa, LCSW, LCADC
is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed
Certified Drug and Alcohol Counselor in the State of New
Jersey and has worked in the field of social work for more
than 25 years.
Her present position is as the
Administrative Director of the AtlantiCare Health Plex and
is responsible for a redesigned ambulatory care practice
specializing in chronic conditions. Design elements include
relationship based care, use of an electronic medical
record, integration of behavioral health care, aggressive
patient outcomes and satisfaction.
Prior to her
current position, she was the Project Director of Mission
Health Care, a Federally Qualified Health Center for
homeless. She is an adjunct faculty member at Rutgers
University. She has an undergraduate degree from Montclair
State University and an M.S.W from Rutgers University.
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Adam D. Romney
Associate
Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP
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Adam Romney counsels clients
on a number of health law related issues, including Medicare
and Medicaid reimbursement, fraud and abuse analysis, HIPAA
and privacy matters, antitrust analysis, and other
compliance and regulatory issues including patient centered
medical homes. His experience includes policy related to
health care, Medicare and Social Security; and Medicare
reimbursement for hospital services, skilled nursing, home
health, hospice, physician services, durable medical
equipment and prescription drugs.
Previously, Adam
was an Associate with Caplan & Earnest LLC, in Boulder,
Colorado. Prior to that, he served in the Office of Medicare
Hearings and Appeals with the U.S. Department of Health &
Human Services.
Adam is a member of the American Bar
Association. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Political
Science and French, at the University of Utah in 2001, cum
laude, and his Juris Doctorate from the University of
Colorado Law School in 2005.
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Mary Minniti, CPHQ Project Director
Quality Corporation's Patients and Families as Leaders
Initiative
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Mary Minniti, CPHQ, brings a wealth of experience, having
spent more than 25 years working in quality improvement,
community organizing, and enhancing the patient experience
of care. Mary is the Project Director of Oregon Quality
Corporation's Patient and Families as Leader's Initiative as
well as the Project Consultant for the Oregon Health
Authority and Northwest Health Foundation's Patient-Centered
Primary Care Home Implementation Taskforce.
Previously, Mary worked 16 years for PeaceHealth. During
that time, she served as the Pursuing Perfection Project
Manager in the Whatcom County community to develop the
vision of, and implement, a community-wide chronic care
management system that is patient-centered. More recently,
she worked as the Quality Improvement Director for
PeaceHealth Medical Group (PHMG), a large multi-specialty
practice in Eugene, Oregon. PHMG is part of the larger
PeaceHealth integrated healthcare system of hospitals,
clinics and ancillary services serving communities in
Oregon, Washington and Alaska.
Mary’s passion is bringing patients and family members
into authentic conversations about health care
transformation because of the positive and powerful outcomes
it creates for all involved.
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Kathryn S. Reid,
MPH, CPHQ
Research Associate
National Association of Public
Hospitals and Health Systems & National Public Health
and Hospital Institute
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Kathryn Reid, is a Research Associate with
the National Association of Public Hospitals and
Health Systems and the National Public Health and Hospital
Institute.
Kathryn Reid joined the NAPH research team in October of
2009.
Previously, Ms. Reid worked as a maternal and child
health researcher for the University of Florida’s School of
Medicine and conducted pediatric HIV/AIDS research at
Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC.
She
holds a B.S. degree in Chemistry and a Master of Public
Health degree, with a concentration in Epidemiology, from
the University of Florida.
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Sam JW Romeo, MD, MBA
Tower Health & Wellness Center
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Sam Romeo, MD. MBA is a nationally
recognized health care administrator and physician with over
40 years of experience. . He received his B.S. degree from
St Mary’s College, California, M.D. degree from St Louis
University School of Medicine, and M.B.A. from National
University. With the integrity he exudes and the warmth in
his handshake, even his barber doesn’t know that he has
served as the President/CEO of medical groups as large as
3,000 physicians strong, has held senior faculty and
deanship positions at the USC School Of Medicine, the
Medical College of Wisconsin, and St. Louis University
School of Medicine, and has been the CEO and Medical
Director of Health Maintenance Organizations in California,
Florida, and New York.
He continues to be tirelessly
committed to improving health care on a national level and
participates in such organizations as the Accreditation
Association of Ambulatory Care (AAAHC) which insures quality
standards are met by medical organizations. He has served on
the AAAHC Board of Directors, AAAHC Institute for Quality
Improvement (IQI) Board of Trustees, and as a methodologist
in the American Medical Association (AMA) Physician
Consortium for Performance Improvement which is developing
evidence-based performance measurement sets for physicians
to enhance the quality of patient care. From its inception,
Dr Romeo has been a member of the Performance Measures
Advisory Group of the CPT Editorial board creating CPT
Category II Performance Measure codes. He has lectured, been
published, and consulted around the country on medical
ethics, occupational medicine, managed care, family
practice, outcomes measurement that reflect the quality in
health care, quality improvement, and the role of academic
health care centers in the managed care environment. He has
recently published a book “We the Patients” which is
available on Amazon.com.
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Xiaobo Quan,
Ph.D, EDAC
Research Associate The Center for Health Design
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Xiaobo Quan, Ph.D, EDAC is a
Research Associate with The Center for Health Design. Xiaobo
focuses his efforts on special research projects, as well as
our major research initiative, the Pebble Project. Working
closely with our Director of Research and Pebble Project
partners, planners, designers and other researchers, he
examines the impact of the built environment on human
behaviors and healthcare outcomes, evaluates the effects of
evidence-based design innovations and disseminates research
findings through presentations and publications.
Previously, Xiaobo worked as a senior researcher, conducting
healthcare environment research at Karlsberger Companies. He
also worked as an architect at East China Architectural
Design & Research Institute and Shanghai Xian Dai
Architectural Design Group. Xiaobo obtained his Ph.D in
Architecture and a certificate in Health Systems and Design
from Texas A&M University, and his master’s and bachelor’s
degrees in architecture from Southeast University in
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