How Healthcare Payers are Addressing Health-Related Social Needs
Meghan Grady
Meghan Grady joined Meals on Wheels of RI as its fourth executive director in June 2019, bringing with her over 15 years of progressive experience in nonprofit leadership. Prior to joining our team, Grady was chief operating officer at YWCA Rhode Island for eight years, where she was responsible for internal operations and day-to-day leadership of the organization. She previously held leadership positions within the City of Providence during Mayor Angel Taveras' administration and at the American Heart Association.
Her career has garnered many accolades. In 2021, she received the Providence Business News Business Women’s Awards –Women to Watch, Social Services award. She was named a Providence Business News 40 under 40 and received a United Way of Rhode Island Young Leaders Spark! Award, both in 2016. In 2017, Grady was selected for the nationally competitive Allstate Foundation Greater Good Nonprofit Leaders Program. In 2015, she was awarded a Hassenfeld Public Service Fellowship and completed Harvard University Kennedy School of Government's Leadership Decision Making executive education program. She also has won a Roger Williams Young Alumni of Achievement Award.
Grady serves on the United Way of Rhode Island Board of Directors. She holds a master's degree in public administration from Roger Williams University and a bachelor's degree from Merrimack College. A native Rhode Islander, she lives in Barrington with her husband, Eric P.W. Hall and daughter, Olympia.
Amy C. Hulberg
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Amy C. Hulberg is a Director of Medicaid Policy with the Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services, having previously served on the leadership team for the Department of Health’s COVID operations unit. Before moving to Rhode Island, Hulberg served as the Director of Policy at The Health Initiative, a national organization dedicated to advancing policies that address the social drivers of health. Hulberg also worked at Health Leads’ as a Manager of Program Operations, where she launched social needs programs across the country, developed nationally-recognized best practices, and served as an expert on screening and social needs interventions. She co-authored three evaluations on the connection between resource needs and health outcomes, most recently published in JAMA Internal Medicine. She spent the prior decade providing case management in behavioral health and child welfare settings. She received her Masters in Public Policy from the Heller School of Social Policy and Management.
Gary Chavez
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Senior Manager of Clinical Engagement, Neighborhood Health Plan
Travis Sherman, MA
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Travis Sherman, MA is a Sr. Clinical Program Manager at UnitedHealthcare and manages several programs related to Housing and SDOH. Travis has over 20 years’ experience in various positions within the behavioral health field.
Breanna Lemieux
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Breanna Lemieux is an Accountable Entity Program Analyst at the Executive Office of Health and Human Services. She supports the quality component of the AE Program under the Health System Transformation Project (HSTP), which is RI Medicaid’s signature delivery and value-based payment initiative. It aims to reduce costs, improve quality of care, and improve population health outcomes.
She also supports Medicaid’s Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) investment strategies in the context of the AE Program that enable stakeholders to address individual health-related social needs and address upstream social determinants of health and racial inequities.
Prior to joining the Executive Office of Health and Services she worked as a Population Health Operations Manager at Village Medical and Director of Quality Management at Ocean State Healthcare and has over 10 years’ experience in Quality Improvement and Social Determinants of Health.
Participatory Budgeting is one of the four SDOH investment strategies, due to its ability to elevate community members voices and enhance their decision-making power in addressing the social and environmental factors that influence their health.