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Walid Michelen, MD
Dr. Walid Michelen, MD is a graduate of Cornell University Medical College. He received his training at Montefiore Hospital’s Residency Program in Social Medicine, one of the first primary care programs in the country. He went on to obtain a fellowship in Rheumatology, also at Montefiore.
Dr. Michelen has a varied career in medical care, medical management., and population health. After practicing at Segundo Ruiz Belvis Health Center he became the Director of the residency program for the Internal Medicine department at Bronx Lebanon Hospital.
His career in medical management began in 1991 as the Medical Director of North Central Bronx Hospital, part of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC). He was promoted to Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for all of HHC. While in that position he was asked to serve as Acting Executive Director of MetroPlus as well as Senior Vice President of the then Southern Manhattan/ Northern Brooklyn Health Network, which then included Bellevue and Woodhull Hospitals, Goldwater Skilled Nursing Home and Gouverneur Skilled Nursing Home/Health Center. Part of Dr. Michelen’s accomplishments during that time included renegotiating affiliation contracts with seven medical schools which switched the payment system from one based on number of doctors hired to one primarily based on productivity and quality standards; thereby saving the Corporation millions of dollars annually while improving the quality of care in the public health system. He led a team that redesigned and standardized across the Corporation the way quality and clinical performance was measured and reported, by creating a system that exists to this day. He also set new performance standards and operational systems at MetroPlus, making it as competitive as other Medicaid managed care plans and improving its efficiency and the plan’s relationship with hospitals and providers.
Dr. Michelen left HHC to become the Vice President for Community Health at New York Presbyterian. His responsibilities included managing both operationally and clinically the Ambulatory Care Network, a group of community health centers in Washington Heights providing care to the underserved, all the clinics, including specialty care at both campuses, and developing numerous health programs in partnership with community based organizations as a way to address the social determinants of diseases that impact a person’s health. Some of his accomplishments included creating a community health worker program; standardizing the way the care was delivered; creating parish based services; and establishing chronic disease programs, among others.
Dr. Michelen left New York Presbyterian when he was asked by its President, Dr. Benjamin Chu to take on the role of Chief of Staff for the Generations+ Health Network, consisting of Harlem, Lincoln and Metropolitan Hospitals, as well as the Morrisania, Segundo Ruiz Belvis, and Sydenham Health Centers. Besides carrying out the tasks of a chief of staff, he was also responsible for running the health centers; managing the risk arrangement with MetroPlus and Health First; Getting the network ready for the Home Health Program; and preparing the network for DSRIP. He was asked by HHC’s CMO to head the task force to prepare the corporation for the Patient Centered Medical Home and successfully achieving the highest level for, three, for all the health centers and Ambulatory Care Departments,17 in total, for HHC.
When HHC decided to convert all its health centers, school based clinics and community health practices into one network, called Gotham Health, Dr. Michelen became its first CEO/CMO. He successfully converted them into a Federally Qualified Health Center. At Gotham Health he initiated population health and chronic disease measures, while standardizing the clinical care and operations. This increased the revenue significantly from Gotham Health’s risk sharing agreement and improved its quality metrics to one of the best in HHC
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