Barbara Huston, RN, BSN, COS-C
Quality Improvement Manager
Celtic Healthcare, Inc.

 

Barbara Huston, RN, BSN, COS-C has over 29 years of nursing experience ranging from nursing faculty in a community college to staff education in critical care. For the last 15 years she has worked in Home Health and Hospice as a staff nurse and then as a Quality Assurance Manager. She is currently a Performance Improvement Coordinator for Celtic Healthcare were her duties include regulatory guidance, policy and procedure development and education, quality improvement activities, safety and infection control preparedness and coordination, and staff education.
 

 

Marian Essey, RN, BSN
VP Performance Improvement
Celtic Healthcare

 

Marian Essey is Vice President, Performance Improvement for Celtic Healthcare, Inc., a Pennsylvania-based geriatric home health organization.  Prior to joining Celtic Healthcare, Ms. Essey was Director of Health Care Quality Improvement for the Home Health Quality Improvement Support Center (QIOSC) and for Pennsylvania's Quality Improvement Organization (QIO), Quality Insights of Pennsylvania.  In this capacity, she led multiple home health quality improvement projects in the areas of home health and long term care.  She has served as a technical expert on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) panel for the Home Health Publicly Reported Measures Resource Binder and as a member of the CMS Transformational Change Workgroup.  Her publishing accomplishments include the topics of disease management, care transitions, quality improvement, home telehealth, and outcome improvement. Ms. Essey has over 20 years of home health experience including clinical informatics; utilization review; outcomes and case management; and clinical supervision.

 

Misty Kevech, RN, RN, BS Ed, MS, COS-C
Director of Nursing Education
Celtic Healthcare, Inc.

Misty Kevech, RN, BS Ed, MS, COS-C  is currently the Director of Nursing Education and Program Development for Celtic Healthcare.  She was previously the Communication/Training Manager for Quality Insights of Pennsylvania, the Home Health Quality Improvement Organization (QIO)Support Center, where she coordinated and produced tools and resources for QIOs and home health agencies nationally.  She has provided national presentations on many topic areas, especially related to best practices, immunizations and interventions to reduce avoidable acute care hospitalizations and quality improvement. She received her bachelor's degree in public health care education and her master's of science degree of Professional Leadership with emphasis on training and development. Over 25 years of home care experience, primarily in quality improvement and education.

 

 

Tonya Miller,  PT, DPT COS-C
Director of Rehab Education and Program Development
Celtic Healthcare

Tonya Miller is currently the Director of Rehab Education and Program Development for Celtic Health Care.  In this role, Tonya creates and provides education programming for interdisciplinary clinicians, patients and families related to rehabilitation services in home care.  She coordinates clinical program development including implementation of evidenced practice into patient care.  Tonya has 15 years of homecare experience including leadership and program development.  She is currently the editor of the American Physical Therapy Association, home health section newsletter and  is a well-known author and speaker in the areas of home therapy and interdisciplinary care. Tonya has recently been a panel member for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services OASIS-C review.

 

 

Andra Roig, RN, BSN
Telehealth-Disease Management Supervisor
Celtic Healthcare

Andra Roig has 25 years of nursing experience working in the Emergency Department, Med/Surg, Cardiac Step Down, ICU, Surgical Orthopedics, and Home Care. She joined Celtic Healthcare in 2007 as the Telehealth- Disease Management Supervisor and has created Celtic's Telehealth- Disease Management Programs. Andra currently oversees all telehealth and disease management initiatives at Celtic Healthcare. She is a 1985 graduate of Youngstown State University and is currently pursing post-graduate education.

 

1. Understand the role of OASIS-C and  other  healthcare system changes on home health disease management programs.

 

2. Create disease management partnerships across the continuum with hospitals, nursing facilities, physicians, and vendors.

 

3. Take your disease management program to the next level by providing feedback loops for referral sources and partners.

 

4.  Develop "win themes" for marketing your disease management programs across the continuum.
 
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