Candy Hanson, BSN, PHN, LHIT-HP, CPF, Program Manager, Stratis Health 

Candy Hanson has worked in healthcare for over 30 years, with 20 of those years in public health and home health. In her role as program manager for Stratis Health, she has led many organizations across a variety of settings in quality improvement projects. She is one of the Stratis Health facilitators for convening health systems across Minnesota in telehealth.  She has a certificate in health information technology for health care professionals from the University of Minnesota and is a certified practice facilitator.

IS TELEHEALTH WORTH THE COST?

• Learn about telehealth, televisits, and telemonitoring and how they relate to decreasing hospital readmissions and increase efficiency.  
• Learn how telehealth can augment and support the workforce. 
• Discuss tips for improved Claims Based data results. 

John B. Fraser, CEO, Recover Care

John brings 20 plus years of diverse experience across Manufacturing, Financial Services, and Healthcare. His passion is creating business opportunities through technology, process, and people. John's career in post-acute health care started in 2010, driving a home health company from $8M to $35M and ready for private investment.  From 2018-2020 he helped another home health organization grow and sell to one of the larger providers in the US. He now is CEO of Recover Care and is passionate about using technology as differentiator for employees, clients, and their loved ones!

PANEL: IMPROVE OUTCOMES USING TELEHEALTH

• Discuss the factors that were considered when making the decision to invest in telehealth. 
• Discuss the hurdles your agency has overcome. 
• Discuss any unique patient challenges you have encountered.  
• Discuss the return on investment you are seeing from integrating telehealth into your services.

Moderator: John B. Fraser, CEO, Recover Care

Panelists: 
Tamara Althoff, RN, MSN, HCS-D, COS-C, Quality Coordinator, Telehealth Nurse, CHI Health at Home

Tammi Althoff, MSN, RN is currently the Telehealth Nurse and Quality Coordinator at CHI Health At Home which is part of the CommonSpirit Health system.  She is OASIS and Home Health Coding Certified.  She has been with CHI since 2005 in various roles including Nursing Assistant Trainer, Inservice Director, Corporate Responsibility Officer and Director of Home Health and Hospice.  She has also been employed in long term care, care of the developmentally disabled and was an Assistant Professor of Nursing for both the ASPN and RN programs at North Dakota State College of Science.

Lindsey Sand, LHSE, NHA, Vice President of Population Health, Knute Nelson

Lindsey Sand serves as Vice President of Population Health for Knute Nelson in Alexandria, MN, an aging services organization offering a full continuum of services across more than 30 counties in northwestern and central Minnesota and eastern North Dakota. Before joining Knute Nelson, she was director of community services and subsequently Administrator and Chief Operating Officer of Assumption Community, a full-service retirement and senior living community in Cold Spring, MN. She is a licensed nursing home administrator, a licensed health services executive, and serves on the board of LeadingAge Minnesota and the LeadingAge Minnesota Foundation.  She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Human Services from the University of MN, Morris, and a graduate certificate in Long-Term Care Administration from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Lindsey’s current responsibilities with Knute Nelson involve reimaging rural healthcare delivery for aging adults by elevating the aging service provider's role in the care delivery model and creating deeper relationships between providers across the healthcare continuum, community-based programs, payors, and aging adults.  Her work involves implementing social care models into the home and community-based healthcare services, creating whole-person-centered care planning, and implementing technology to support patient monitoring, telehealth, and client and family engagement.