Team

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Our Team:

The Health Home team will help answer any questions you may have about referrals, our care management agencies or more information about the program.

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Annie Cummings,

AVP of Health Homes and Care Coordination

Cummings has dedicated her career to community health: ensuring that under-served communities receive comprehensive medical and behavioral care with the lens that social determinants significantly impact health. Her passion is to affect change for the patients she serves through collaborative programmatic and systems change.

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Carmen Plaja-Cordero,

Director of Health Home Operations

Carmen has extensive health care and social service experience in administrative and senior leadership roles in Care Management, FQHC, Hospital and Domestic Violence. She has worked in community and patient relations providing support and advocacy for child abuse, domestic violence, and substance use disorder. She successfully assisted in managing a State funded program overseeing daily operations, managing new initiatives, developed policies and procedures and build CBO relationships leading to partnerships.

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Ashley Klimavicius,

Director of Quality

Driven by a passion for justice and institutional change, Ashley has spent the last six years dedicated to serving the underserved. Prior to her current role, Ashley conducted behavioral health research and treatment for justice-involved youth, advocated for alternatives to incarceration for individuals with serious mental illness and provided care coordination to Health Home members and those under court-mandated Assisted Outpatient Treatment.

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Sidenyia Ulysse,

Health Home Program Coordinator

Sidenyia Ulysse has a passion for healthcare and patient advocacy. Her role involves quality assurance on routine operations by analyzing and overseeing hospital admissions and referrals. Developing strong relationships is the foundation of what she does professionally and personally. Sidenyia has created meaningful relationships with OASAS treatment centers, hospitals and various community-based organizations. These relationships have led to partnerships and overall growth of the Health Home.

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Thomas Bow,

Health Home Clinical Quality Manager

Thomas Bow is currently the Clinical Quality Manager for the CHN Brooklyn Health Home. In this role he evaluates the quality of services provided by the Health Home’s 19 care management agencies, provides feedback and recommendations and monitors progress toward performance improvement goals. Prior to this role he was supervisor and team leader for the Disaster Distress Response Program at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, where he supervised a team of therapists while providing short-term mental health services to superstorm Sandy survivors. Thomas is an experienced mental health professional currently and has been in private practice in Manhattan for 11 years.

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Hillary Dowdle,

Health Home HARP/Adult Home Supervisor

Ms. Dowdle started her career with CHN in 2017 as the HARP Administrative manager and was promoted to the her present role in 2018. Since that time, Ms. Dowdle has displayed strengths in organizational leadership, training development and implementation, networking, and team supervision. While working in Health Homes, with oversight of HARP and Adult Home Plus, Ms. Dowdle has successfully developed collaborations with stakeholders, including managed care organizations, referral sources, agency leads, and direct care staff to improve outcomes and streamline processes to ensure optimum patient care.

Jennie Fredericks,

HARP/Adult Home Administrative Manager

As a dedicated patient rights advocate who has provided care coordination services to underserved populations in New York City for the past 8 years, Jennie draws upon her prior experience with Community Based Organizations and directly serving Members to provide supportive administrative oversight and ensure the quality of specialized care coordination services for our High-Risk Members.

Maureen Blake,

Health Home Quality Associate

Maureen has been at CHN for over 15 years providing Cobra Targeted Case Management and then as a Care Manager for the Health Home Program. Maureen’s dedication and compassion for the Health Home population led to her promotion to the position of Health Home Quality Associate. Due to her experience in the field, Maureen is a crucial part of the Health Home Quality Team and is instrumental in ensuring that our Care Managers provided the highest level of care to our Members.