Addus HomeCare Corporation (NASDAQ:ADUS), a provider of comprehensive home and community-based personal care services, today announced that it has named Susan T. Weaver, M.D., FACP, and Darin J. Gordon to its Board of Directors. Dr. Weaver serves as the Chief Executive Officer of healthcare services company, C3Healthcare Rx, and formerly served as the Chief Medical Officer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC), the state’s largest health insurer. Mr. Gordon recently left the State of Tennessee’s Division of Health Care Finance and Administration after serving as the division’s Chief Executive Officer and Director, which included serving as Director of TennCare, Tennessee’s Medicaid program, since 2006 under both Democratic and Republican governors, making him the program’s longest serving Director.
Commenting on the announcement, Dirk Allison, President and Chief Executive Officer of Addus, said, “We are pleased and very fortunate to be adding Susan Weaver and Darin Gordon to the Company’s Board, two highly accomplished healthcare executives who bring important perspectives and valuable experience to Addus.
“As a result of Susan’s tenure at BCBSNC, as well as her hands-on experience as a physician and in hospital management, she has been directly involved in setting up and growing clinically integrated networks, launching start up initiatives and performance programs and using data and analytics to design new models of care and innovative payment methods to move to value-based care. In addition, under Darin’s leadership of the successful turnaround of TennCare, the program maintained the lowest cost trend in its history, made significant improvements in quality measures, and has been nationally recognized for innovations in managed care and payment and delivery system reform, including the successful state-wide implementation of a managed long-term services and supports system.
“We expect Susan and Darin to be great additions to Addus’s Board, as we work to leverage both the increasing shift to value-based care and growing managed care involvement in the home and community based personal care industry, and we welcome them both to Addus.”
Dr. Weaver remarked, “Given the quality care and cost reduction imperatives affecting the full continuum of healthcare under value-based reimbursement models, Addus has a unique opportunity to expand its leadership in the personal care industry, due to its scale, geographic presence, relative technology sophistication and financial strength. I look forward to taking part in helping Addus achieve this and other goals.”
Mr. Gordon added, “States across the country are actively grappling with the demands presented by their Medicaid populations for improved quality of care and lower cost. I believe Addus will be the best positioned firm in the personal care sector of the healthcare industry to be part of the solution, which is expected to be very beneficial for patients and healthcare payors and providers and, in turn, the Company’s stakeholders.”
Prior to joining C3Healthcare Rx, Dr. Weaver was President of Transformation Health Partners, a healthcare consulting company she founded in 2015, after three years of service at BCBSNC. In addition, Dr. Weaver earlier held various executive positions at WakeMed Health & Hospital (Raleigh, NC), including serving as the organization’s Executive Vice President of Medical Affairs and Physician Practices. She was a founding member and Executive Director of Alliance Medical Ministry, a not-for-profit organization providing medical care to the working uninsured of Wake County, NC. Weaver earned a M.D. from the Duke University School of Medicine (Durham, NC) and B.S. in Psychology from Duke University, and completed postgraduate training at Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA). She is board-certified in Internal Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.
In 2006, Mr. Gordon became Director of the Division of Health Care Finance and Administration for the State of Tennessee, an $11 billion health care enterprise that provided services to nearly 1.5 million Tennesseans and which included his responsibilities as Director of TennCare. In addition to Tennessee’s Medicaid and CHIP programs, he was responsible for the State’s high-risk pool, pharmacy assistance program, e-Health strategy, all payers’ claims database as well as its multi-payer payment and delivery system reform initiative. In Mr. Gordon’s 18 years with the division – spanning three Governors – he also served as the Director of Managed Care Programs and Chief Financial Officer. He has also been involved in healthcare policy nationally through consultations with states, in his leadership roles in the National Association of Medicaid Directors, including serving as President, and his involvement in a variety of National Governors Association initiatives and task forces.
