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The Health Advancement Collaborative of Central New York is a not for profit corporation formed in 2005 to bring together employers, hospitals, physicians, insurers, and consumers in a collaborative forum to address regional health issues. The Collaborative is the result of a merger between two prior collaborations, the Health Care Planning Organization (HCPO) and the Health Care Collaborative of Central New York (HCCCNY), which had similar yet complementary missions to promote access to affordable, high quality health care in the Central New York region.
Six organizational members came together through the merger process to form HAC-CNY: Excellus BlueCross BlueShield (Excellus), the Greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce (Chamber), the Hospital Executive Council (HEC), the Manufacturers Association of Central New York (MACNY), the Metropolitan Development Association of Central New York (MDA), and the Onondaga County Medical Society (Medical Society).
The Collaborative’s core operating principles are to build understanding among members of the community, encourage cooperation, trust and the setting aside of individual agendas, build consensus, develop action-oriented plans and projects, achieve measurable outcomes, seek win/win solutions, provide transparency, shared governance and decision-making and encourage the candid exchange of information in a safe environment.
The Collaborative is governed by a 26 person board that, as specified by its bylaws, represents a diverse segment of the business community including: ten businesses, three health insurers, six physicians, five hospitals, and three representatives at large. The Collaborative’s board president is Stephen A. McCormick, senior plant manager of Anheuser-Busch, Inc. who also chairs the Business Council of New York’s Health Care Task Force. The Collaborative’s first executive director, Nancy H. Smith, was brought on in October 2006, and brings extensive experience in health systems policy and design.
The Collaborative is unique among other regional coalitions in several ways. First, it is the product of key community stakeholders, hospitals, physicians, insurers, and employers, coming together voluntarily to address common health care issues and concerns in the absence of any external incentives or pressures. Second, its board is comprised of the key stakeholders needed to build consensus on regional health issues. Finally, board members have been proactive in identifying, underwriting and implementing priority activities.
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Nancy H. Smith, MA, Executive Director
Ms. Smith has served as Executive Director of the Health Advancement Collaborative of Central New York since October, 2006.
Prior to joining the Collaborative, Ms. Smith was an independent consultant specializing in health policy, service and research in Upstate New York. From 1996 to 2002, she served as deputy director of the Institute on Aging at the University of Pennsylvania where she directed aging research and educational programming and developed a system-wide geriatric clinical service group across five hospitals. Prior to Penn, Ms. Smith served as director of the Executive Office of the American College of Physicians, as lead Medicare policy analyst to the late Senator John Heinz (Minority Chair of the Senate Aging Committee), and as long-term care policy analyst for the House Committee on Aging. She also held policy and planning positions with the U. S. Veterans Administration, local planning commissions, and the State of Vermont.
Contact details here.
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Officers
- President: Stephen A. McCormick, Senior Plant Manager, Anheuser-Busch, Inc.
- Vice Presidnet: Orrin B. MacMurray, President, C&S Engineers, Inc.
- Vice President: David T. Page, MD, President, FamilyCare Medical Group, PC
- Treasurer: Paul Casey, Regional Marketing Manager, The Maxon Company
- Secretary: Thomas P. Quinn, President & CEO,
Board of Directors
- Joseph Augustine, MD, CNY Family Care
- Robert Didio, Director, Human Resources and Employee Benefits, Stickley Audi & Co.
- David G. Duerr, Executive Vice President, Greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce
- David B. Duggan, MD, MACP Professor & Chair, Department of Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University. Associate Vice President & Associate Dean, Clinical Initiatives
- Ann Gilpin, RN, Chief Executive Officer, Oswego Health
- Eric W. Hunt, Vice President & CEO, Information Technology, Welch Allyn
- Paul J. Kronenberg, MD, President and CEO, Crouse Hospital
- J. Kemper Matt, President, Dupli
- Paul Muoio, President, Benefit Specialists of NY
- Alan J. Murray, Vice President, NY Markt Lead, United Healthcare
- David Oliker, President & CEO, MVP Health Care
- Craig Painter, Board Chair and President, Kinney Drugs
- Theodore M. Pasinski, President, St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center
- James R. Reed, Regional President, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield
- Phillip S. Schaengold, Senior Vice President for Hospital Affairs, SUNY Upstate Medical University, and Chief Executive Officer, Upstate Medical University Hospital
- Jeffrey S. Sneider, MD, FACP
- James Tifft, MD, FACP Associated Gastroenterologists of CNY
- Arthur Vercillo, MD, V.P. & Chief Medical Officer, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield
- Eleanor Ware, SVP Human Services & Government Relations, Syracuse University
- Jeffrey M. Way, Vice President Supply Chain Management, National Grid
- Robert W. Weisenthal, MD, CNY Eye Care
Advisors
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The mission of the Health Advancement Collaborative is to bring together employers, hospitals, physicians, insurers, and consumers to address ways to advance high quality health care, access and safety in Central New York while decreasing or maintaining costs.
Our current priorities are to:
- Develop a community-wide electronic clinical information exchange focused initially on improving quality and efficiency around medication management and radiology and laboratory services.
- Identify options for optimizing the capacity of our health system through medical technology review and promotion of best practice standards.
- Address issues related to primary and specialty physician manpower supply.
The Collaborative is committed to fostering positive change in health care for the Central New York community.
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