Brian Meade, MBA, MS, has been named vice president of healthcare transformation for Kaleida Health.
Meade will have direct oversight of the Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO). EPMO is charged with supporting projects to achieve goals within Kaleida Health’s six strategic focus areas: Patient Experience/Access, Physician Network and Practice Optimization Plan, Referral Management, Cost/Financial Transformation, Workforce/Human Capital and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. The Cost/Financial Transformation focus area includes the development and implementation of initiatives that support the system’s two-year, $300 million margin improvement plan. In addition to EPMO, Meade will have direct oversight over Utilization Management, and administrative oversight of Enterprise Data Management and Analytics (EDMA), Bundled Payment programs and Process Improvement.
Meade, who has been with Kaleida Health since 2007, most recently served as senior director of healthcare analytics and value based programs for Kaleida Health. Prior to that, he held several other leadership roles, including senior director of utilization management and length of stay; senior director of strategic implementation; and director of planning and implementation.
Meade received a Bachelor of Arts in economics from the State University of New York at Buffalo, a Bachelor of Arts in health and human services from the State University of New York at Buffalo, a Master of Science in counselor education from Canisius College and a Master of Business Administration from Medaille University. He also received an Executive Education Certificate in Managing Healthcare Delivery from the Harvard Business School.
Kathryn Phillips, MBA, was promoted to director of EDMA and value based programs.
In her new role, Phillips will oversee the EDMA team and the Bundled Payment for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI-A) program/team. While continuing to provide near real-time dashboards in support of leadership and operations, EDMA’s focus will be on continuing to support EPMO initiative data needs. BPCI-A is a CMS initiative aimed at improving quality and reducing costs for 90-day episodes of care for Medicare fee for service patients with certain medical conditions. Under Phillips’ leadership, the BPCI-A team will be evaluating and selecting which bundles to operate in for 2024-25.
Phillips most recently served as manager of clinical and population health data analytics. In this role, she developed and managed clinical data systems that enable and support population health, clinical and operational initiatives. Prior to that, she was a utilization management project manager. She joined Kaleida Health in 2015 as a value analysis agent for Interventional/Med-Surg.
She received her bachelor’s degree in business administration and operations management from the State University of New York at Fredonia and her Master of Business Administration from St. Bonaventure University.
Joseph Pesany, MBA, has been named manager of EDMA technical services and will lead the EDMA technical team. In his new role, he is charged with leading the team’s design and maintenance of the EDMA data warehouse in support of the near real-time dashboards. The team will continue to extract and transform data from disparate source systems to increase Kaleida Health’s operational reporting capabilities.
Pesany began his career with Millard Fillmore Hospitals in 1992 and most recently served as the senior technical specialist for EDMA where he lead the design and implementation of EDMA data warehouse structures. He held various programmer/analyst and systems analyst positions at Kaleida Health previously. He was involved with many of the system-wide Cerner clinical system projects over the years.
He received his bachelor’s degree in biomedical computing from the Rochester Institute of Technology and his Master of Business Administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo.