
Managed Mental Healthcare with guest Anya Eliassen Part 1
09/11/20 • 14 min
In this two-part CANA Connection Podcast, CANA Advisors' President Rob Cranston and Resource Lead Cherish Joostberns interview Anya Eliassen about managed mental health care in Oakland County, Michigan. Anya shares insights about her organization, the Oakland County Health Network, to include its provided services, the role of data analytics in care assessment, and also the network’s ongoing response to the COVID-19 health crisis.
Anya is the Chief Financial Officer of Oakland County Health Network and has been with the organization for over 20 years. She has a depth of experience in all aspects of budget and finance decision-making within the organization, including roles as a team support specialist, fiscal coordinator and controller of costing. Anya currently has responsibility for Budget and Finance of Costing, Accounting, Contracts, and Facility Management, and is a member of the OCHN Executive Leadership team dedicated to quality service delivery for clients. Anya was selected as one of Crain’s Business Detroit 40 under 40 for 2019 and most recently served concurrently as Interim CEO and CFO of OCHN during 2020.
If you would like to read more about OCHN, go to oaklandchn.org.
And, if you would like to stay informed about more CANA Connection Podcasts follow us on social media, subscribe to our podcast feed, join our newsletter, or consider joining in the conversation at our website in our community forum.
#teamCANA #CANAstrong #ochn
In this two-part CANA Connection Podcast, CANA Advisors' President Rob Cranston and Resource Lead Cherish Joostberns interview Anya Eliassen about managed mental health care in Oakland County, Michigan. Anya shares insights about her organization, the Oakland County Health Network, to include its provided services, the role of data analytics in care assessment, and also the network’s ongoing response to the COVID-19 health crisis.
Anya is the Chief Financial Officer of Oakland County Health Network and has been with the organization for over 20 years. She has a depth of experience in all aspects of budget and finance decision-making within the organization, including roles as a team support specialist, fiscal coordinator and controller of costing. Anya currently has responsibility for Budget and Finance of Costing, Accounting, Contracts, and Facility Management, and is a member of the OCHN Executive Leadership team dedicated to quality service delivery for clients. Anya was selected as one of Crain’s Business Detroit 40 under 40 for 2019 and most recently served concurrently as Interim CEO and CFO of OCHN during 2020.
If you would like to read more about OCHN, go to oaklandchn.org.
And, if you would like to stay informed about more CANA Connection Podcasts follow us on social media, subscribe to our podcast feed, join our newsletter, or consider joining in the conversation at our website in our community forum.
#teamCANA #CANAstrong #ochn
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Operational Readiness Rollup: An interview with Connor McLemore
In this episode of the CANA Connection Podcast, CANA Advisors' President Rob Cranston interviews CANA team member Connor McLemore about his recent award and the 88th MORS Symposium.
Connor is a Principal Operations Research Analyst with over 12 years of experience in scoping, performing, and implementing analytic solutions. Recently he was awarded the 2020 John K. Walker, Jr. Award from the Military Operations Research Society (MORS) for his September 2019 article on Operational Readiness Rollup. The award is given "to recognize the author(s) of the technical article judged to be the best published in PHALANX, The Magazine of Military Operations Research, during the previous calendar year." The article highlighted Connor's analytics work on the Probability Management team with co-authors Shaun Doheney and Dr. Sam Savage.
If you would like to read more about the John K. Walker Jr. Award and MORS head on over to https://www.mors.org/Professional-Development/Awards/John-K-Walker-Jr-Award
To read the award-winning Operational Readiness Rollup article you can find the PDF version here. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a4f82d7a8b2b04080732f87/t/5d9bad674c5cd75a54567708/1570483564174/OperationalReadinessRollup_PhalanxSeptember2019.pdf
And if you would like to stay informed about more CANA Connection Podcasts follow us on social media, subscribe to our podcast feed, join our newsletter or consider joining in the conversation at our website in our community forum.
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Managed Mental Healthcare with guest Anya Eliassen Part 2
In this second part of our two-part CANA Connection Podcast, CANA Advisors' President Rob Cranston and Resource Lead Cherish Joostberns interview Anya Eliassen about managed mental health care in Oakland County, Michigan. Anya shares insights about her organization, the Oakland County Health Network, to include its provided services, the role of data analytics in care assessment, and also the network’s ongoing response to the COVID-19 health crisis.
Anya is the Chief Financial Officer of Oakland County Health Network and has been with the organization for over 20 years. She has a depth of experience in all aspects of budget and finance decision-making within the organization, including roles as a team support specialist, fiscal coordinator and controller of costing. Anya currently has responsibility for Budget and Finance of Costing, Accounting, Contracts, and Facility Management, and is a member of the OCHN Executive Leadership team dedicated to quality service delivery for clients. Anya was selected as one of Crain’s Business Detroit 40 under 40 for 2019 and most recently served concurrently as Interim CEO and CFO of OCHN during 2020.
If you would like to read more about OCHN, go to oaklandchn.org.
And, if you would like to stay informed about more CANA Connection Podcasts follow us on social media, subscribe to our podcast feed, join our newsletter, or consider joining in the conversation at our website in our community forum.
#teamCANA #CANAstrong #ochn
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