Home > Consulting Team > Mary Anne Ford Mary Anne Ford As a consultant with Strategies for Tomorrow, Mary Anne Ford brings 25 years of health care policy and project management experience to her work with health information exchanges. As a project consultant and analyst to the Capital Area Health Alliance in Lansing, Michigan, she has actively participated in planning and implementing the Capital Area RHIO. She also consults with the Michigan Health Information Network Resource Center at Michigan State University, which is a resource to regional HIE planning in Michigan. Over the years, Mary Anne has acquired extensive consulting experience working with health care prevention, chronic disease management, and treatment initiatives that engage physicians, health systems, other providers, public health, health care associations, and others. In her consulting capacity, she has served as project manager, strategic planner, facilitator, and analyst. She has worked with several health care associations and health care organizations on projects related to public health, physician practice improvement and continuing education. She has also worked with the principal investigators on a grant funded project to evaluate the impact of health literacy training in physician practices on patients’ understanding of, and compliance with, medication therapy. Some of her other past projects include: developing a leadership skills training program for mid-level managers at a Michigan hospital, and for the Asthma Initiative of Michigan, developing and co-presenting a training program for distribution of an asthma resource manual in clinical practice settings. As a project manager for the Michigan Association of Health Plans Foundation, Mary Anne coordinated multiple projects related to prevention and chronic disease management, including a primary care practice workflow improvement pilot to improve chronic disease management, and a survey of health plan members to examine facilitators and barriers to cancer screening. Since 2005, she has served as the Foundation’s managing director. Previously, Mary Anne spent 17 years at the Michigan State Medical Society, moving from its government relations department to become the Director of the Department of Medical Economics and Health Care Delivery. She then joined the senior management team of the society, as General Manager of Subsidiary Operations and Education. Mary Anne completed her undergraduate studies at Michigan State
University and her Masters in Health Services Administration at
the University of Michigan. Mary Anne is a member of the Board of
Trustees and the Executive Committee of the Michigan Health Council,
an organization dedicated to educating, recruiting and retaining
a skilled health care workforce, with online placement services
operating in several Great Lakes states. |
