Our Team
Our team provides practical strategic and business planning support through our in-depth knowledge
and experiences of health care operations, financing, and leadership.
Lynn Spragens, MBA, is a partner with Spragens & Gualtieri-Reed and founder of the firm. With more than 30 years of experience as a healthcare executive and consultant, Ms. Spragens provides strategic planning, business planning, and operations consultations to healthcare organizations across the nation. She has worked extensively with non-profit health care organizations, philanthropic foundations, hospitals, health systems, group practices, home care providers, and hospices. Her areas of focus include palliative care and geriatrics with significant expertise in strategic planning and business planning to build successful new clinical programs that require coordination across the continuum of care. Her personal goal is the development of programs that are well integrated into organizational strategy, meet business requirements, and serve the expanding market need for care to the severely ill and aging population.
Ms. Spragens has done extensive work for over 20 years with the Center to Advance Palliative Care (www.CAPC.org) and is an author of business tools and curriculum utilized by CAPC. Ms. Spragens has served as a consultant for numerous health systems in the development and evaluation of palliative care services. In 2011, she was awarded the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) presidential citation for having made significant contribution to the field of hospice and palliative medicine and in 2017 Ms. Spragens received the CAPC Innovation Award for leadership and innovation to the dissemination efforts of the field of palliative care. She also works extensively with national innovators in geriatric care, including several initiatives through the American Geriatrics Society, and serves on the Health in Aging Foundation (HIAF) board.
Prior to establishing her own consulting practice, Ms. Spragens was a partner for four years in The Bard Group, a consulting firm in Boston that provided leadership development, strategic planning, and operations improvement services to integrated health systems and physician organizations. Her initial nine years in health care were with Kaiser Permanente in North Carolina, where Ms. Spragens rose through positions to take the role of business administrator for the Carolina Permanente Medical Group, serving more than 136,000 HMO members through 200+ medical group physicians and practitioners, and 2300 affiliated community physicians.
Ms. Spragens has a Masters in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina and an undergraduate degree with honors from Duke.
Contact:
(919) 740-4608
Lynn Spragens, MBA, is a partner with Spragens & Gualtieri-Reed and founder of the firm. With more than 30 years of experience as a healthcare executive and consultant, Ms. Spragens provides strategic planning, business planning, and operations consultations to healthcare organizations across the nation. She has worked extensively with non-profit health care organizations, philanthropic foundations, hospitals, health systems, group practices, home care providers, and hospices. Her areas of focus include palliative care and geriatrics with significant expertise in strategic planning and business planning to build successful new clinical programs that require coordination across the continuum of care. Her personal goal is the development of programs that are well integrated into organizational strategy, meet business requirements, and serve the expanding market need for care to the severely ill and aging population.
Ms. Spragens has done extensive work for over 20 years with the Center to Advance Palliative Care (www.CAPC.org) and is an author of business tools and curriculum utilized by CAPC. Ms. Spragens has served as a consultant for numerous health systems in the development and evaluation of palliative care services. In 2011, she was awarded the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) presidential citation for having made significant contribution to the field of hospice and palliative medicine and in 2017 Ms. Spragens received the CAPC Innovation Award for leadership and innovation to the dissemination efforts of the field of palliative care. She also works extensively with national innovators in geriatric care, including several initiatives through the American Geriatrics Society, and serves on the Health in Aging Foundation (HIAF) board.
Prior to establishing her own consulting practice, Ms. Spragens was a partner for four years in The Bard Group, a consulting firm in Boston that provided leadership development, strategic planning, and operations improvement services to integrated health systems and physician organizations. Her initial nine years in health care were with Kaiser Permanente in North Carolina, where Ms. Spragens rose through positions to take the role of business administrator for the Carolina Permanente Medical Group, serving more than 136,000 HMO members through 200+ medical group physicians and practitioners, and 2300 affiliated community physicians.
Ms. Spragens has a Masters in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina and an undergraduate degree with honors from Duke.
Contact:
(919) 740-4608
Tom Gualtieri-Reed, MBA is a partner with Spragens & Gualtieri-Reed, joining the firm in 2013. Mr. Gualtieri-Reed has close to 30 years of health care management and consulting experience working with hospitals, health systems, provider practices and clinics, and within payer organizations. Mr. Gualtieri-Reed’s expertise is in strategic and business planning, clinical program development and implementation, team function, and leadership support. He has a specific interest in addressing the needs of the aging population and those with serious illness, working nationally with palliative care and other care models focused on addressing the needs of these complex, high-need populations.
Mr. Gualtieri-Reed has served as a consultant on numerous projects for the design and implementation of palliative care and other clinical programs across the continuum, including hospital, clinic, and home-based settings. He has presented on a range of business planning and program development topics at national and regional conferences such as the National Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Summit and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Statewide Comprehensive Cancer Summit. He has extensive expertise in facilitating effective product or program development, team function and process improvement efforts, and leadership development. Mr. Gualtieri-Reed works extensively with the Center to Advance Palliative Care (www.CAPC.org), serving as faculty at CAPC conferences, and is an author of CAPC’s business and program development tools and resources. As consultant co-lead for CAPC’s payer initiative, Mr. Gualtieri-Reed co-authored several publications on payer-provider partnerships and led the establishment of a national payer workgroup with leaders from commercial health plan, health system, and Medicare organizations.
Prior to working as a consultant, Mr. Gualtieri-Reed was Director of Strategy at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) where he led several enterprise-wide strategy development efforts with senior leadership, including the establishment of initial post-healthcare reform market segment positions. Before his time at BCBSNC, Mr. Gualtieri-Reed spent seven years at Duke University Health System where he gained experience in clinic operations and practice management and developed clinical and financial decision support tools focused on improving quality of care and outcomes across the health system. Prior to Duke, Mr. Gualtieri-Reed was at Kaiser Permanente of North Carolina where he worked with clinical leaders to analyze medical cost and utilization trends and implemented a physician staffing and productivity system. Mr. Gualtieri-Reed started his career at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center working in hospital operations, supporting quality improvement initiatives across multiple clinical departments.
Mr. Gualtieri-Reed earned his Masters in Business Administration from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and his undergraduate degree in Economics from the College of the Holy Cross.
Contact:
(919) 619-3008
Tom Gualtieri-Reed, MBA is a partner with Spragens & Gualtieri-Reed, joining the firm in 2013. Mr. Gualtieri-Reed has over 30 years of health care management and consulting experience working with hospitals, health systems, provider practices and clinics, and within payer organizations. Mr. Gualtieri-Reed’s expertise is in strategic and business planning, clinical program development and implementation, team function, and leadership support. He has a specific interest in addressing the needs of the aging population and those with serious illness, working nationally with palliative care and other care models focused on addressing the needs of these complex, high-need populations.
Mr. Gualtieri-Reed has served as a consultant on numerous projects for the design and implementation of palliative care and other clinical programs across the continuum, including hospital, clinic, and home-based settings. He has presented on a range of business planning and program development topics at national and regional conferences such as the National Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Summit and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Statewide Comprehensive Cancer Summit. He has extensive expertise in facilitating effective product or program development, team function and process improvement efforts, and leadership development. Mr. Gualtieri-Reed works extensively with the Center to Advance Palliative Care (www.CAPC.org), serving as faculty at CAPC conferences, and is an author of CAPC’s business and program development tools and resources. As consultant co-lead for CAPC’s payer initiative, Mr. Gualtieri-Reed co-authored several publications on payer-provider partnerships and led the establishment of a national payer workgroup with leaders from commercial health plan, health system, and Medicare organizations.
Prior to working as a consultant, Mr. Gualtieri-Reed was Director of Strategy at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) where he led several enterprise-wide strategy development efforts with senior leadership,including the establishment of post-reform market segment strategies. Before his time at BCBSNC, Mr. Gualtieri-Reed spent seven years at Duke University Health System where he gained experience in clinic operations and practice management and developed clinical and financial decision support tools focused on improving quality of care and outcomes across the health system. Prior to Duke, Mr. Gualtieri-Reed was at Kaiser Permanente of North Carolina where he worked with clinical leaders to analyze medical cost and utilization trends and implemented a physician staffing and productivity system. Mr. Gualtieri-Reed started his career at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center working in hospital operations, supporting quality improvement initiatives across multiple clinical departments.
Mr. Gualtieri-Reed earned his Masters in Business Administration from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and his undergraduate degree in Economics from the College of the Holy Cross.
Contact:
(919) 619-3008