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Michele brings more than 20 years of experience across the spectrum in long-term care, home care and post-acute care. In 1998, she began serving as an Assistant Director of Nursing, then as a Director of Nursing.  Over the course of her skilled nursing positions, she also served as a Lead Registered Nurse Assessment Coordinator (RNAC). With her vast experience with facility based management, Michele assumed the position for a for-profit provider as a Clinical Reimbursement Specialist/Clinical Service Specialist with oversite of multiple skilled nursing facilities and personal care homes in western Pennsylvania. She has extensive hands-on experience in regulatory compliance and survey management, clinical programming, comprehensions, and analysis to develop interventions to reduce high risk areas to enhance quality outcomes, Minimum Data Set (MDS) and Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) processes with completion of assessments and reimbursement factors. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and is a certified Dementia Practitioner and Infection Preventionist.