Item 32 - Feasibility and Fiscal Evaluation for a Municipal Public Health Agency

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3. Firm and Team Experience ii. General Description of Firm Health Management Associates, Inc. (HMA) is an independent, national research and consulting firm. Founded in 1985, HMA provides technical and analytical services with a focus on advancing the administration and delivery of public health care and social services programs. HMA currently employs 309 total staff, of which more than 230 are consultants who provide services to clients. We have 22 office locations in 16 states and Washington, DC, and we have worked in all 50 states. In the key staff section below, we present five employees who will work directly on this project; they will be supported by a research associate to be assigned once the project begins. HMA is a private, for-profit “C” corporation, incorporated in the State of Michigan in good standing and legally doing business as Health Management Associates, Inc. Dedicated to serving populations who depend on publicly funded services, we provide policymakers, providers, health plans, foundations, and community-based organizations with strategic guidance, technical assistance, data analysis, research and evaluation, policy development, decision support, and implementation services. Through the years, HMA has distinguished itself from other consulting companies by our decades-long tradition of hiring senior-level policymakers, such as former state Medicaid directors, mental health commissioners, budget officers, insurance directors, policy advisors, governors and other elected officials, and former senior officers from key federal agencies, as a complement to our many clinicians, hospital and health system leaders, and Medicaid managed care executives. Our staff members have backgrounds in health policy and program administration, project management and support, managed care, clinical and social services, health information systems, health economics, health care finance and reimbursement, pharmacy benefit design and management, and data analysis and evaluation. iii. Project Manager Christina Altmayer will serve as the project manager and as the primary point of contact between the HMA team and the City. Ms. Altmayer brings more than 20 years of consulting project management experience, including multiple projects in Santa Ana and with the Orange County community. She worked extensively on multiple projects with the County, philanthropic partners, and community agencies and was the former executive director of the Children and Families Commission of Orange County (renamed to First 5 Orange County) from 2012 through 2016. As a consultant, she provided technical assistance to the community planning team to support the launch of the Santa Ana Building Healthy Communities initiative of the California Endowment. She also worked closely with diverse community leaders to successfully capture input and engage diverse representatives throughout the strategic planning process. In addition to serving as the project manager, Ms. Altmayer will directly oversee the community needs assessment and fiscal modeling analysis of the scope of work. She may be contacted at caltmayer@healthmanagement.com or 213-314-9104. iv. Resumes for Key Staff Our proposed team members are presented in Figure 1. Brief overviews of the qualifications and experience of our proposed staff are included in Figure 2 and the resumes that follow. All proposed personnel will be available for the full duration of the project. EXHIBIT 1