Genesis HealthCare System CEO and leadership

Christopher Schoelles, R.N., MSN, NE-BC, was named chief operating officer of physician services in 2017. His role entails overseeing the area physician operations.

Having worked in clinical areas as a registered nurse and in several areas in clinical leadership, Schoelles has experience with administrative responsibilities over several hospital departments. With over 20 years as a nurse, manager and executive, Schoelles’ background in clinical care provides a strong understanding of the provider relations with all hospital staff. Schoelles obtained a Master of Science in nursing from Chamberlain University College of Nursing.

Dianna LeVeck, MHR, SPHR, has been a member of the senior leadership team since 2013 and in 2018 was named chief administrative officer for Genesis HealthCare System. Her role entails overseeing the areas of Human Resources/Payroll, Education Services, Support Services (including Environmental Services, Food & Nutrition Services, and Plant Operations), Property Management, Northside Pharmacies, Northside Oxygen and Medical Equipment, Home Infusion, Lean Six Sigma, Public Safety, Mission, Spiritual Care, Volunteer Services & Auxiliary, and Genesis Children’s Center.

A mission-driven leader, LeVeck was recently awarded by the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity for loyalty, dedication and commitment to the mission of sponsored ministries. She has been with Genesis for more than 30 years. With over 22 years in a leadership position, LeVeck’s background in Human Resources provides a strong understanding in hospital operational excellence with physicians, volunteers, clinical and nonclinical staff. LeVeck completed her undergraduate degree at Muskingum University, and obtained a Master of Science in human resources from Keller Graduate School of Management. She has been nationally certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources since 2001.

* I am a heart surgeon leading a minimally invasive/robotic and transcatheter valve program.

* In that role, I am also responsible for the Performance and Quality Improvement of the structural heart and the cardiac surgical program, Thus set up key performance indicators and maintain best practice guidelines for the program.

* I am responsible for development of standardized clinical care pathways, financial assessment of cardiovascular DRGs and lean through-put for cardiovascular patients, in preparation for bundled payments.

* I have initiated minimally invasive cardiovascular programs nationally and internationally. In addition, as National Proctor for Edwards LifeSciences Transcatheter Heart Valve Program, I have initiated more than 35 transcatheter valve programs. Also initiated the MitraClip program at Lourdes Health System

* I am currently consulting for Venus Medtech to develop Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Valves

* In my non-clinical role, I served as a Board Member representing Trinity Health System at Healthtrust Purchasing Group (Global Purchasing Organization) cardiovascular supply chain board (2015-16)

* I am the Adviser to Healthtrust Purchasing Group on clinical valuation of all current and future cardiovascular products.

* I Chair the Clinical Quality & Value Analysis (CQVA) Team at the hospital for value analysis of all new technologies and evaluation of all existing inventory under supply chain at Genesis Hospital.

Cost avoidance in new supplies at Lourdes in 2017 was $880k. Reconfiguration through Medical Economics Committee (MEC) had helped us a net savings of $5.1 million in supply chain. over the course of one Year.

Michael Norman CPA (Inactive), has been with Genesis HealthCare System since 2010 and part of the senior leadership team since 2018, when he was named the chief financial officer. In this role, he is responsible for Accounting, Decision Support, Purchasing & Materials Distribution and Revenue Cycle, which includes the Patient Access Center, Registration, Medical Billing and Patient Resource Center. Norman also oversees Health Information Management & Coding and Pricing & Reimbursement Services, which includes contracting for hospital and physician services.

Before joining Genesis, Norman was the vice president of finance for an Ohio hospital, manager of accounting for two large energy companies and worked for an emergency medicine physicians recruiting company. Each management position had multiple areas of responsibility that included accounting, billing, financial reporting and materials management. Norman holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Ohio University where he graduated summa cum Claude.

Health Care Executive with thirty years of progressive healthcare information technology and population health leadership experience in single and multi-site health care settings and integrated delivery systems. Demonstrated record of success in building and leading high performance teams and departments responsible for the planning, acquisition, implementation and management of health care information technology, clinical technology and the origination, communication and management of health care information and population health management across the continuum of care. Experienced transformative leader and change agent including information systems, cybersecurity, population health, health information management, clinical engineering, project management office, medical transcription and telecommunications. Experienced with enterprise-wide EMR acquisition and implementation including Epic EMR, Healthy Planet population health, Microsoft Teams collaboration suite and enterprise wide ERP acquisition and implementation including Infor/Lawson. Community physician engagement and development and implementation of community physician EMRs, population health and care management, and Revenue cycle solutions using Epic application software.Specialties: Building and leading highly engaged high performance teams, acquisition and implementation of Epic EMR and Revenue Cycle systems, Epic community physician EMR and PM strategy and delivery, acquisition and implementation of Infor ERP, ACO/CI, Population Health, IT strategy, budgeting, cybersecurity, delivering high value IT solutions, business plans, business process, consulting, contract management, customer relations, customer service, due diligence, executive management, information systems, leadership, management, management consulting, management reporting, medical transcription, needs analysis, networking, project management, medical record/HIM

Michael Deming is a COO at Genesis HealthCare System and is based in Zanesville, Ohio.