Four Federally Qualified Health Center Unified Network member clinics are benefiting from the expertise of Kristie Sams, MBA, CCMP, FMVA, LBBP, ESG, CBCP, their fractional director of risk management. For the past several months, Sams has been working closely with the clinics as an extension of their teams, reviewing clinical-related processes and identifying which ones need to be updated and/or assigned an owner to be responsible for their oversight. In partnership with Sam

FUHN Health Informatics Consultant Joel Farley, PhD, FAPhA, FAMCP, is a pharmacist, pharmaceutical outcomes researcher, teacher, and mentor. For more than three years, he has provided valuable insight to the FUHN member clinics, facilitated a key relationship with the University of Minnesota’s Best Practices Integrated Informatics Core, included his doctoral students among the FUHN leadership team, and provided data and analysis to guide FUHN’s efforts in value-based care.

Kristie Sams, MBA, CCMP, FMVA, LBBP, ESG, CBCP, may not have a clinical background, but she brings expertise in what she does best: helping organizations mitigate risk. A consultant with Creative Planning Business Services , she brings deep experience to the Federally Qualified Health Center Unified Health Network as a fractional director of risk management for four of FUHN’s member FQHCs. One of the many benefits of FUHN, a clinically integrated health network , is that memb

The Federally Qualified Health Center Unified Health Network (FUHN) has benefited from physicians who have postponed retirement to serve health centers and patients, from Dr. Dan Florey to Dr. David Thorson. For more than two years after retiring from practicing medicine, David Thorson, MD, served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer of Riverland Community Health, formerly United Family Medicine. “Dr. Dave” practiced family medicine and sports medicine