Madeleine (Maddy) Shea, PhD

Principal

Health Management Associates

Baltimore, MD

mshea@healthmanagement.com

(202) 785-3669

Maddy Shea has a passion for health equity and the federal, state and local cross-sectoral expertise to guide community health improvement measurement and action. She understands how to identify opportunities in healthcare transformation to deliver better care, more efficiently, and with better health outcomes. Throughout her career, Maddy has joined forces with housing, planning, energy, food systems, community development, academic and criminal justice organizations to accelerate progress on community health goals.

Maddy brings decades of health policy and program experience to her work with Health Management Associates (HMA) and the Community Strategies and Housing Services and Supports practice groups. Leveraging her expertise in policy, risk assessment, evidence-based interventions, partnerships and collective action, and performance measurement, she works at the intersection of health and housing. She consults with clients on solutions to aging in place, care management and care transitions needs, chronic disease self-management, behavioral healthcare access, and injury prevention.

Maddy is helping senior affordable housing organizations in California and Maryland develop a braided financial model to enrich resident services, housing stability, access to health and social services, and resilience in aging while reducing avoidable healthcare costs. She also helps nonprofits, housing providers, Medicaid and managed care plans expand programs, secure financing, establish partnerships, and design improvement and evaluation frameworks.

Prior to joining HMA, Maddy worked for the CMS Office of Minority Health, leading the development, implementation, and evaluation of the CMS Equity Plan initiatives and innovations. She analyzed CMS regulations, policies, and standards to identify disparities and to increase beneficiary and partner engagement to meet the needs of minorities and rural populations. She consulted on the design of new models addressing social health determinants and technical assistance approaches to support grantees in meeting their quality and outcome goals.

Prior to CMS, Maddy supported Quality Improvement Organizations (QIO) by providing customized reports and evidence-based approaches to reduce disparities in chronic disease, adverse drug events, readmissions, and nursing home quality. She was the Maryland Health Department’s first Office of Population Health Improvement director, developing healthcare transformation performance measures now included in the state’s Medicare waiver program.

In Baltimore, she developed the first U.S. city healthy homes division and an asthma home visiting program that saved Medicaid hospital costs. With the Maryland AIDS Administration, she held progressively accountable roles working in evaluation, prevention, training, housing assistance, and care community engagement and leadership.

Maddy earned her PhD in public policy from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, her master’s degree in management from Johns Hopkins University, and her bachelor’s degree in economics from Trinity College in Washington. She is an emeritus trustee of the National Center for Healthy Housing and has served on multiple home environmental health advisory groups.