Megan Hesketh, MHA, PMP

Megan has over ten years of experience working on nationally recognized quality improvement projects, most notably the CMS Initiative to Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations among Nursing Home Residents, called the New York – Reducing Avoidable Hospitalizations (NY-RAH) project in New York State. As the Senior Director of Grants and Programs at the Greater New York Hospital Association, Megan managed the NY-RAH project and worked with over 50 nursing homes across New York State to improve workflows that would improve patient care through payment incentives in addition to reducing errors and avoidable transfers. Her work on improving the quality of life for the elderly continues as an evaluation consultant for the Florida Health Justice Project on projects related to streamlining and improving Florida Medicaid’s Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Long Term Care Waiver Program.

Megan is an advocate for early communication and documentation of end-of-life wishes, changing the conversation to focus on how one wants to live at the end-of-life. Prior to joining CAPC, she was the Assistant Director of Research at the Emory Palliative Care Research Center, where she worked with leading researchers in testing new models of palliative care and is excited to help translate palliative care research into practice at CAPC.

Megan received her Bachelor of Art in Communications and Rhetoric from the University at Albany and her Master of Health Administration from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.