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Joseph Tomaino is the Chief Executive Officer of Grassi Healthcare Advisors, LLC. He has over 40 years of experience in healthcare management, working in the nonprofit, for-profit, and government-sponsored sectors. As a chief executive officer, chief nursing officer, consultant, and educator, Joseph has worked with provider organizations and payers across the U.S. as an architect of value-based care, improving clinical effectiveness and the efficient use of resources. Joseph uses data to analyze populations being served and organizational effectiveness, then applies innovative structure and program designs to improve performance, helping clients transform to successfully operate in managed care and accountable care reimbursement environments.

Joseph brings C-suite experience to his advisory engagements. Before joining Grassi, he served as Chief Executive Officer of the Continuing Care Division of a major multi-hospital health system, responsible for organizations with $280 million in annual revenue. His significant accomplishments in this role included leading the system’s application and approval as an awardee of the Model 2 CMS Bundled Payment Initiative, developing a cross-continuum care coordination platform, and restructuring and consolidating duplicative and inefficient program components to achieve improved profitability. He draws on this experience to assist struggling healthcare organizations as a turnaround advisor, focusing on controlling costs, growing revenue, and restructuring capital. He also has experience serving in the role of chief restructuring officer. Joseph has served as a Patient Care Ombudsman for the Office of the United States Trustee, monitoring healthcare businesses as they restructure under bankruptcy.

Joseph has advised both payers and providers to redesign processes to align with emerging value-based payment methodologies, such as a year-long engagement with a DSRIP PPS to integrate primary care and behavioral health, and a multi-year project to assist a client in developing a Behavioral Health Care Collaborative and an IPA. He is a member of the Managed Long-Term Care Clinical Advisory Group of the New York State Department of Health.

Joseph is a member of the Board of Directors of Nassau HealthCare Corporation (NHCC) and a member of the Turnaround Management Association and the American Healthcare Law Association. He has served on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Westchester Medical Center, a tertiary academic medical center, and of HEALTHIX, a regional health information exchange. Joseph also served on the Executive Management Committee of Long Island Health Network, a clinically integrated multi-hospital network. He has also served on the graduate faculty of Pace University, the College of New Rochelle, and Columbia University, where he was Assistant Dean of the School of Nursing and Director of Clinical Affairs. He also served on the Big Data Advisory Board at Rutgers University.

Joseph received his Master of Science in Nursing Administration from the College of New Rochelle and his Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the Catholic University of America.