{"id":16433,"date":"2015-03-13T10:24:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T14:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glensfalls.com\/glensfallsbusinessjournal\/2015\/03\/homkey-at-adirondack-health-institute-says-employee-number-could-reach-70.html"},"modified":"2015-03-13T10:24:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T14:24:42","slug":"homkey-at-adirondack-health-institute-says-employee-number-could-reach-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glensfalls.com\/glensfallsbusinessjournal\/2015\/03\/homkey-at-adirondack-health-institute-says-employee-number-could-reach-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Homkey At Adirondack Health Institute Says Employee Number Could Reach 70"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cathy Homkey is CEO of the Adirondack Health Institute based in Glens Falls\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

BY BARBARA PINCKNEY<\/p>\n

Cathy Homkey is at the center of healthcare
\nin the North Country.<\/p>\n

Homkey, 54, is CEO of the Adirondack
\nHealth Institute, a Glens Falls-based
\nconsortium of about 80 providers and
\nother stakeholders in nine counties. AHI
\nis a joint venture of Glens Falls Hospital,
\nSaranac Lake-based Adirondack Health,
\nHudson Headwaters Health Network and
\nChamplain Valley Physicians Hospital in
\nPlattsburgh.<\/p>\n

As CEO, Homkey oversees a budget of
\n$4.5 million and 46 employees–a number
\nshe expects to reach 70 by the end of 2015.
\nShe also provides strategic leadership for
\nAHI’s many initiatives, which center on
\nimproving population health in the North
\nCountry through the coordination of community
\nresources and new forms of care,
\nsuch as the Patient-Centered Medical
\nHome and Health Home models, which
\nreward providers for quality and efficiency.<\/p>\n

At the moment, the institute is a administering
\na $2 million grant as a Performing
\nProvider System under the state’s Delivery
\nReform Incentive Payment (DSRIP)
\nprogram, a $6 billion attempt to improve
\npopulation health while reducing Medicaid
\ncosts. Much of those funds will find their
\nway to other community organizations AHI
\nwill be partnering with.<\/p>\n

“AHI is the hub, working to connect all
\nthe dots as we transform the healthcare
\ndelivery system,” Homkey said. “We make
\na difference, and that is really where my
\npassion lies.”<\/p>\n

Homkey, a native of Queensbury, has
\nbeen in her current role since 2011, but
\nhas nearly 20 years of experience in the
\nhealthcare field It all started, she said, because she was
\nlooking for the best way to use the business
\ndegree she earned at Trinity College
\nin Burlington, Vt. She started in public
\naccounting, working at times with health
\ncare clients. That led to an opportunity
\nas finance director with a primary care
\nnetwork. She then took her skills to a
\nhealth insurer, and in 2005 joined the Upper
\nHudson Primary Care Consortium, the
\nforerunner to AHI.<\/p>\n

She has worked to promote a positive
\nculture within the organization, which she
\nbelieves carries over into AHI’s relationships
\nwith its community partners and
\nbolsters its reputation as a “neutral, trusted
\nconvener and collaborator.”<\/p>\n

Innovation is another thing Homkey
\nbrings to her role.
\n“I like to think that I have a very creative
\nside and I bring a lot of that to my work,”
\nshe said. “In a rural region you have to be
\ncreative. You have to look at efficiencies
\nand economies of scale so I’m always trying
\nto solve that, to figure out how best
\nto create this unified vision and align all the resources across our region. I find it
\nintriguing to try to look for those solutions
\nand leverage the resources within our communities.”<\/p>\n

The biggest challenge, she said, is
\nthe rapid pace of change taking place in
\nhealthcare.
\n“It is evolving by the minute, by the hour,
\nby the week,” she said. “Partly because of
\nthe Affordable Care Act, we are asking a lot
\nof patients and providers and we are really
\nstarting to ask a lot of our community.”<\/p>\n

The mother of three boys–two in college,
\none in high school–admits that
\nfinding work-life balance can be difficult
\nin a job like hers.
\n“Some days I enjoy the pace, some days
\nI am driven crazy by it,” she said.<\/p>\n

In 2014, Homkey was appointed by Gov.
\nAndrew Cuomo to a one-year term on the
\nstate Rural Health Council. She also serves
\non the New York State Health Foundation
\nCommunity Advisory Committee and on the
\nboards of the Adirondack Region Chamber
\nof Commerce and Mountain Lake Children’s
\nResidence Inc. in Lake Place.<\/p>\n

Photo Courtesy Adirondack Health Institute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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