About Alera Heath

Empowering providers, patients, and systems to work together for better outcomes.

Your Partners for Good

You’re dedicated to doing good in the world. We’ll help your healthcare facility be great. Whether it be early identification and treatment of chronic health issues, population health analytics and care alerts, or building Integrated Systems of Care (ISOCs) like ONEcare networks, we can provide the strategic, tactical, and technology services your healthcare facility needs to improve the health of your patients. Our team builds, advises, and manages accountable care organizations and population health programs for some of the largest payers, providers, and health systems in the United States, designing and implementing effective structures, processes, tools, and capabilities that are transforming how population health is delivered.

Our History

Blaze Advisors was formed in 2016 to offer a suite of talent and tools to help healthcare partners optimize their pay-for-performance programs. We took a pragmatic, innovative approach to identifying realistic and impactful solutions for our customers. Services often included assembling and analyzing disparate population health data, implementing and automating care management programs, and designing and deploying communal disease/risk screening tools.

In 2017, Blaze Advisors was asked to build and manage integrated care networks as a core project, now known as ONEcare, that coordinated the historically siloed medical and behavioral health communities. Using straightforward communication protocols and tools, ONEcare networks sought early identification of disease, timely access to care, and robust treatment activation and patient engagement.

By 2022, we realized we had outgrown our name, so we changed it to Alera Health. Alera – which is Latin for “eagle” – suggests agility, grace, power, and strength. We believe it reflects how our multifunctional advisory and management team works with hospitals, emergency rooms, primary care, behavioral health, and post-acute care providers across the nation. We are proud to help our partners design and accelerate care innovation that helps save lives, one population at a time.

Our Leadership

We are a group of cross-trained experts with extensive, professional experience creating high-performance networks for behavioral health, post acute care, and community-based organizations. Our team is clinically and operationally integrated across the healthcare continuum, including an array of traditional medical providers and specialty sector providers. This real-life experience based on successes and lessons learned in the management of at-risk payment programs and the pursuit of effective results give us the insights we need to help our partners improve patient care by creating uncommonly good collaborations.

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Mike Rhoades,

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

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Kathy Smith,

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

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Deborah Aldridge,

Chief Network Officer

Jose Castillo,

Chief Information Officer

Leesa Bain,

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, NETWORK DEVELOPMENT

Colleen Russell,

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Seth Terndrup,

Senior VICE PRESIDENT, LEGAL AFFAIRS

Renee White,

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF NETWORK OPERATIONS

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Drew Shuping,

Senior Vice President of Security and Data Analytics

John R. West,

Senior Vice President, Finance

Jaimica Wilkins,

Senior VICE PRESIDENT OF QUALITY

Patrice Clayton,

Vice President of Network Operations

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Peter Greene,

Executive Director of Health Analytics

Kye Gardner,

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE OPERATIONS & DEVELOPMENT

Alera Health Staff Lizzy Reklau

Lizzy Baum,

Executive Director of Network Operations, Development, & Payor Contracting

Joe Oladimeji

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

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Mary Ann Crowder,

Executive Director of IT Program Development

Nancy Jo Sutton-McLeod, LCSW,

Executive Director of Network Operations

Alera Health Staff Jennifer Wade

Jennifer Wade,

Executive Director of Network Operations & Development

Kim Jameson,

DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS

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Nermin Isic,

DIRECTOR OF NETWORK OPERATIONS

D’Erikah Carr,

Director of Marketing Operations & Development

Jenna Emery,

CONTROLLER

Rick Ross,

DATA ANALYTICS DEVELOPER

Kristi Van Meter,

Data Analytics Developer