Candace J. Chitty RN, ASN, BSN, MBA, CPHQ, PCMH-CCE

Candace is a Patient-Centered Medical Home expert in practice transformation, PCMH project management for private practices and Federally Qualified Community Health Centers, speaker on PCMH related topics. Developer and owner of PCMHAssist. She is Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ). Incorporates continuous quality improvement practice in every aspect of management consulting. Includes data analytic and data processing expertise.
She is Experienced in start-up medical management operations for health plans, IPAs, community health centers, and community access programs. She is Licensed Healthcare Risk Manager (LHRM) focusing skills and expertise toward compliance management for health plans, community health centers and physician practices.
Sge Facilitates organization-wide team concept to accreditation survey preparation and management for NCQA, URAC, Joint Commission, and AAAHC standards. She is a Project Management Consultant with expertise in implementation of community based collaborative initiatives related to transitional care management from the Emergency Room to a primary care home.
She is expert in Health Information Technology Informatics and in effectively mapping medical management workflow processes and determining business requirements for software applications. Brings a "user persepctive" and effectively advocates this perpsective between customer and the HIT vendor.
She is a Medical management software designer using rules-based comprehensive medical management decision support work flow. Design features include the use of evidence base guidelines, sophisticated workflow process system intelligence, development of operational definitions for process and outcome measurement using national recognized data collection methods.