Our mission is to empower healthcare providers to enhance the delivery of healthcare services, fostering both their long-term viability and operational stability.
Services
Healthcare Organization Management
We specialize in comprehensive services for various healthcare facilities and organizations, including hospitals (critical access, rural, and community acute care), physicians (single and group practices across specialties), wound care, skilled nursing facilities, and onsite vascular programs. Our tailored solutions address the unique needs of each sector, contributing to improved healthcare delivery. Learn more…
Interim Leadership
Healthcare Connects provides experienced leaders on short notice to fill critical leadership gaps in healthcare organizations. Our interim leadership solutions cover key positions, including CEO, CFO, COO, and revenue cycle management. With real-time industry expertise, our interim leaders ensure seamless transitions and effective management during periods of change or when additional leadership support is required. Learn more…
System/Process Assessment and Optimization
Healthcare Connects specializes in conducting comprehensive assessments of healthcare providers' systems and processes to drive improvement and optimization. Our wide-ranging services include enhancing revenue cycle management, evaluating nursing care processes, conducting charge capture and coding audits, optimizing the Charge Description Master, improving case management and revenue integrity, ensuring compliance through audits, minimizing denials, enhancing patient access and cash flow, optimizing technology, and assisting with payor credentialing. By providing in-depth assessments and optimization solutions, we empower healthcare providers to enhance efficiency, financial performance, compliance, and overall operational effectiveness. Learn more…
Talent Acquisition
With over 25 years of experience, Healthcare Connects specializes in comprehensive talent acquisition services for the healthcare industry. We excel in executive recruiting, physician recruiting, and staffing solutions across clinical, administrative, financial, and operations roles. Leveraging our extensive network and industry expertise, we identify and secure top-level executives, highly qualified physicians, and skilled professionals to meet the specific needs of your organization. Our goal is to provide the best-fit candidates for your success in healthcare. Learn more…
Leaders
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Carmen A. Voelz, FHFMA, FHAM
Carmen is an Advisor in Healthcare Connects with a lifelong passion for healthcare. She continues to pursue innovative, out-of-the-box thinking to keep quality medical services available where patients need it most: in their local community. A background in healthcare Administration and Finance, she has held leadership positions in several healthcare organizations, lending her considerable provider experience to optimizing operations and affirming that mission and margin need not be mutually exclusive. Under her leadership, Carmen has successfully steered organizations through mergers and acquisitions, technology implementations and built leadership teams to deliver improved financial results. Her collaborative style allows Carmen to leverage her knowledge, skills and a network of healthcare professionals built through a long and successful tenure in healthcare.
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Chris Joiner
Chris Joiner is an Advisor in Healthcare Connects. He is an innovative healthcare leader, driven to improve the healthcare process. Focused on results driven outcomes, experienced in revenue cycle, financial operations and management, information technology, as well as strategic planning, project management and tactical implementations. Chris has a 38-year history of creating successful business strategies, recruitment and development of powerful leadership teams, enhancing revenue streams, and reducing operating costs, while improving both internal and external customer service levels, consistently improving service levels while achieving growth in client base, market share and profit. Chris has supported roles in all areas of the revenue cycle from Access to CFO positions.
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Guice Smith
Guice Smith is a partner in HealthCare Connects. A former CPA Guice has been a leader in executive search for over 25 years. He leads a team that currently does C-Suite searches and placement for Hospitals, SNF's and Physician Offices throughout the U.S. He also conducts searches for physicians and compliments with staffing in the Clinical, Administrative, Financial and Operations areas.