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Fazzi Associates Lead Home Care Consultants

Fazzi Associates' senior consultants bring far more than a wealth of consulting experiences. Our senior consultants are national leaders who have successfully run home care and hospice agencies throughout the country. These are leaders who have dedicated their professional lives to improving the agencies that provide services to patients throughout the country.


Tim Ashe, RN, MBA

Tim is the National Director of Operational Consulting for Fazzi Associates. Tim brings in-depth, practical understanding of home care and health care having served as a registered nurse, charge nurse, clinical nurse educator, nurse manager and senior hospital administrator. He has served as project leader for various initiatives involving New York hospitals in the Rochester area and has served as Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing for the University of Rochester, School of Nursing. Tim has held the positions of Director of Certified Home Health Agency Services and Vice President of Clinical Operations for Visiting Nurse Service of Rochester & Monroe County in New York. Tim has served on committees for the Home Care Association of New York and NAHC and is actively involved in community events and committees.


Cynthia Campbell


Cindy is clearly a national home care leader. She is a home health advocate at state and federal levels; past NAHC Board Member and Chair of the Pediatric Home Care
Cindy CampbellAssociation of America, current Executive Committee Member for the American Telemedicine Association's Special Interest Group: Home Telehealth and Remote Monitoring. She is a highly skilled executive change agent: has provided effective organizational assessment, redesign and change management to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in a variety of home health settings throughout the country.

Bob Fazzi
Dr. Robert Fazzi


Bob Fazzi is the founder and Managing Principal of Fazzi Associates. Bob is a nationally recognized speaker, author, futurist and change expert. He is widely published in trade journals and is the author of a number of books including Management Plus™, a book on supervisory management published by McGraw Hill and named as a main selection on Fortune Magazine’s Book of the Month Club. He has been Director or Co-Director of many of Fazzi Associates national studies and research projects and has provided organizational, planning and change services to hospital and home care agencies and associations in nearly forty states.

Eileen Freitag
Eileen Freitag, MBA

Eileen heads Fazzi's Strategic Consulting Division. She is the past President and CEO of one of the largest home care agencies in the United States, the Boston VNA, has served as the CEO of a long term care continuum that included a major home health component, and the Vice President of Business Development of a start-up software company. During her 27 year career in home care, she has served on the boards of a variety of local and national health care organizations. Eileen's division works with home health agencies on a variety of marketing, customer service, referral enhancement and interim management efforts.


Lynn Harlow


Lynn is a Principal with Fazzi
Associates and manages the firm's administrative and financial operations. SheLynn Harlow directs our research on health care statistics and has served as the Project Coordinator for a number of Fazzi Associates National Studies including the 3M National OASIS Integrity Project and the National Operational Benchmark Study, the project that led to the development of the nation's largest best practice benchmark and management system.


Nancy Kendrick, BSN, MPA


Nancy Kendrick represents
excellence in clinical and operational management. She has served in numerous senior management positions in agencies throughout the country. She has been a Nancy Kendricksurveyor for both CHAP and JCAHO and has extensive experience and expertise in regulatory compliance, risk management and operational management. Nancy provides an array of operational and clinical services as well as Interim Management and compliance audits for Fazzi Associates. Nancy is a true professional who combines a quiet passion for home care and hospice with a zealous commitment to excellence.


Cindy Krafft, MS, PT, COS-C

Gina MazzaCindy has been in home health for 12 years in a variety of capacities from visiting clinician to the Director of Rehabilitation for a six agency home care system. As a Senior Clinical Consultant with Fazzi Associates, she brings tremendous experience in rehabilitation. She has worked with agencies on developing their rehabilitation programs to their highest potential both clinically and financially. Cindy has presented at both state and national levels on topics of program development, therapy utilization and recruitment. Cindy is also the current Vice President of the Home Health Section of the American Physical Therapy Association and received her COS-C, the designation of Certified OASIS Specialist - Clinical. She is also an affiliate member of the American Occupational Therapy Association.


Gina Mazza, RN, BSN

Gina MazzaGina is the National Director of Fazzi's National Patient Satisfaction Benchmark Service and BestWorks®, our National Operational, Financial and Quality Best Practice Service. She has previously served in a number of senior level positions ranging from Clinical Director to QI/PI Director to Program Manager in two of the largest hospital based home care agencies in Massachusetts. She was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing in May 2003 and named the 2004 Manager of the Year by the Home & Health Care Association of Massachusetts.



Dr. Linda Scharf
Linda Scharf

Linda is truly a national expert when it comes to the realities of running, managing and improving
home care agencies. She has had extensive administrative positions in acute care and in home health agencies and has served as an administrator for geriatric service in a large health system. Linda has published extensively and is an active researcher with special interest in quality improvement initiatives including OASIS, patient satisfaction, employee recognition and patient outcomes.



Dr. Carleton Townsend
Carl Townsend

Carl is a Principal with Fazzi Associates and directs the firm's Quality Measurement division and IS Operations. Carl is the primary architect and developer of the Pat/Stat® National Patient Satisfaction Benchmark System and the primary developer of several of Fazzi Associates major data systems including the initial BestWorks® data system and Managed Care Information systems. Carl is a trained psychologist and researcher, and the author of a number of articles on quality measurement and patient satisfaction.


Rhonda Will, RN, BS, HCS-D, COS-C


Rhonda WillWhen it comes to OASIS accuracy, there is no one with more expertise or better known than Rhonda Will. She has over thirty years of nursing experience, with twenty-five of those years in home health. Rhonda was the Co-Director of the National OASIS Integrity Project and is one of home care's most well known national trainer and speaker on OASIS. Rhonda heads Fazzi's OASIS auditing team, a team of senior clinicians who have audited over 2,000 patient records. Rhonda's focus is on helping clinicians gain the skills, knowledge and confidence needed to improve OASIS accuracy and its ultimate impact on financial and quality results.

Kay Wright, RN, MBA

Kay WrightKay is the National Director of Fazzi's Quality Institute, a division dedicated to improving the accuracy of agency OASIS assessments and their quality outcomes. She has served as President of a number of freestanding and hospital-based organizations including one of New England's largest home care agencies. Kay has served on a number of national Boards and has directly provided operational review services to agencies throughout the country. She is recognized as one of home care's premier experts on operations and effective quality and financial management.


Kathy Ziegler, BSN, MPH
 

Kathy ZieglerKathy has had over thirty years experience in home health. As President/CEO Kathy managed and directed growth while building revenue and market share for her agency to become one of the largest, non-profit home health and hospice care providers in the agency's city. She has also served on numerous Boards, including the Georgia Nurses Foundation, VNA of America, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and JCAHO.