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Biography
With a Masters degree in Hospital and Health Administration and a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology, Gary Sweeney has worked for and consulted with a variety of organizations during the past eighteen years. Gary has been a hospital administrator for several large proprietary health care companies. He has successfully started partial hospitalization programs and a continuum of outpatient services. During his tenure with the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor Health System, he was responsible for the operations of pre-hospital programs - including occupational health and urgent/primary care facilities. There he led projects that resulted in the formation of a physician group practice organization and construction of two medical office buildings. In addition, he initiated the creation of a skilled nursing unit in one of the system's medical/surgical hospitals, while overseeing two long-term care facilities and a free-standing psychiatric hospital.
Gary also has extensive experience in contract management. He has provided regional oversight for the operations of a number of inpatient and outpatient programs. He served as Vice President of Business Development for PMR Corporation.
Recently, Gary has been working in a full-time consulting capacity, specializing in projects that involve strategic/business plan development for healthcare computer software companies, physician organizations and managed care entities.
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