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David A. Roush
Christine Bassett
Jeffrey M. Landa
Barbara J. Wyser
Gardi Hauck
Anne Marie Brightman
Mary Woods, RN
David A. Roush
 David A. Roush is an attorney and health care consultant. He co-founded the Roush/Radius companies, which specialize in providing management, development, and advisory services to clients involved in senior care and post-acute services. Roush/Radius has an in-depth knowledge and expertise in working with New England not-for-profit and proprietary clients. Mr. Roush manages the firm’s consulting practices.
Prior to founding Roush & Associates, Mr. Roush served as Managing Partner at ADS Consulting. Mr. Roush worked with more than 300 clients including hospitals, government agencies, assisted living operators, nursing homes, lenders, not-for-profit organizations and a variety of health care organizations. He has specialized in strategic planning, regulatory affairs, managing work outs, project management advice and hospital senior care network development. His work has included assisting more than 20 hospitals establish senior care programs including transitional care and sub-acute units.
Prior to joining ADS Consulting, Mr. Roush served as Director of the Patient Protection
Unit of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. In 1995-1996, he served as an appointed advisor to the Department of Health and Human Services OBRA Impact
Assessment Advisory Group.
A frequent speaker and author, Mr. Roush’s presentations have included numerous
speeches to the National Health Lawyers Association and many long-term care
organizations. He has drafted legislation and regulations.
Christine Bassett
 Christine Bassett is a Principal and co-founder of the Roush/Radius companies. Ms. Bassett manages the firm’s operational services. Her professional career includes more than 35 years of health care experience. She is the President of the firm’s post-acute management company, Radius Management Services.
Roush & Associates was formed in 1997, and provides consulting and strategic planning services to New England healthcare providers with a concentration on not-for-profit institutions. Radius Management Services was founded in 1999 and manages its owned skilled nursing facilities, as well as skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities for other providers, including not-for-profit providers.
Prior to joining Roush/Radius, Ms. Bassett worked at the ADS Group in Newton, MA. Her work included serving as Managing Director of ADS Consulting, Vice President for Operations for ADS Berkshire, and Vice President of Marketing. As Vice President for the Daley Hotel Group, she was responsible for operations of three Boston hotels. She directed a $40 million renovation and refurbishment program, and developed comprehensive marketing and public relations strategies for the group as well as serving as Executive Vice President of Operations. As Director of Operations for JD Associates, Inc., she had executive responsibility for the operations of luxury, multi-level nursing and retirement facilities.
Ms. Bassett has provided private consultation to long-term facilities, CCRCs, and assisted living facilities. She has also taught healthcare administration at three universities in the greater Boston area. She holds a B.A. from Boston College/Newton College and an Ed.M. from the University of Massachusetts.
Jeffrey M. Landa
 Jeffrey Landa joined Roush & Associates as a Partner in 1998 to establish the Financial Services Division for the Consulting Practice. He is a Certified Public Accountant with over twenty years experience in the field of health care finance.
While at R&A, Jeff has helped numerous not-for-profit senior care providers solve many strategic, operational, regulatory and reporting issues. Successes have included determinations of financial feasibility for appropriate compliment of Independent, Assisted and Skilled Nursing Services; creation and/or restructuring of fiscal services departments; provision of CFO services, including training, oversight and mentoring of staff; implementation of financial and management reporting tools; liaison services with Governance, regulators and lenders.
Prior to joining Roush & Associates, Mr. Landa was the Senior Vice President of
Finance for the Olympus Healthcare Group. In this capacity he was responsible for
the appropriate recognition and maximization of revenue, third-party reimbursement
issues, management of the financial impact of regulatory changes and product/service line costing.
As the Assistant Vice President of Finance for the ADS Group, Jeff developed protocols and provided financial and reimbursement advisory services to more than 20 hospital-based transitional care units, throughout their proposal, development, start-up and operational phases. In addition, he was responsible for the operating budgets for all free-standing nursing facilities, management of all third-party reimbursement, cost reporting, and internal audits, company wide.
Recognized as an authority on third-party reimbursement in the post-acute
marketplace, Jeff was appointed to the American Healthcare Association’s PPS
Committee that worked directly with CMS in developing and implementing
Medicare’s prospective payment system. He has spoken at numerous seminars
hosted by groups in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut on financial and
reimbursement issues and the opportunities presented by regulatory change. He is
past chairman of the Massachusetts Society of CPA’s Long-Term Care Committee.
Jeff holds a BS in Accounting from Bentley University.
Barbara J. Wyser
 Barbara J. Wyser is Managing Director of Roush & Associates, Inc. Ms. Wyser manages all R&A’s consulting services. Working closely with R&A colleagues and other individuals delivering product to consulting clients, she is directly involved with every proposal and engagement of contracted services undertaken by R&A. Ms. Wyser is accountable for overall communication and quality control and oversees corporate communications. She delivers selected consulting services directly, particularly in the areas of public policy, regulatory affairs, advocacy and public relations. Her primary client focus is on not-for-profit senior service organizations in Massachusetts and throughout New England.
Ms. Wyser has over 25 years experience in public affairs, development, community relations and management in both the private and public sectors.
Ms. Wyser has over 25 years experience in public affairs, development, community
relations and management in both the private and public sectors. Prior to joining Roush & Associates, Ms. Wyser served as Director of Public Affairs for the ADS Group, a Massachusetts healthcare company specializing in the development and management of eldercare facilities. Here she promoted the national and state visibility of the company, developed media relationships to enhance public exposure, researched and monitored regulatory and legislative activity related to healthcare and wrote policy papers, articles and speeches to facilitate these activities.
Ms. Wyser holds a B.A from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and is an
alumna of the Graduate Program for Women in Politics at Boston College.
Gardi Hauck
 Gardi Hauck has worked in the senior housing marketing industry since 1981, and serves as Director of Senior Housing Marketing for Roush & Associates.
Ms. Hauck’s experience in pre-sales of entry fee retirement communities includes Hebrew Senior Life – NewBridge on the Charles in Dedham, Stella Maris in Quincy, the Residences at Snow Place in Roslindale, the Community at Pond Meadow in
Wrentham, Fuller Village in Milton, Fox Hill Village in Westwood, and Carleton Willard Village in Bedford. In addition to consulting for a number of other independent retirement communities, she oversaw the successful start-up marketing of The Seasons and The Villa at St. Antoine, both assisted living facilities in Rhode Island.
Her experience working with residential care homes includes assignments with
Winchester Mount Vernon House in Winchester, Hale House in Boston, Merrimack
River Valley House in Lowell, the Dana Home in Lexington, the Sophia Snow House
in Roslindale, and the Pond Home in Wrentham. Ms. Hauck was responsible for the
start-up and on-going marketing and admissions for Mary Ann Morse Skilled Nursing
and Rehabilitation Center in Natick. In addition, she served as project analyst in the
planning department of Framingham Union Hospital. Ms. Hauck is on the Board of Directors of the Scandinavian Living Center, an assisted living facility in West Newton, and serves as Treasurer. She holds a B.A. from Smith College.
ANNE MARIE BRIGHTMAN
 Anne Marie Brightman has worked in the elder care industry since 1984 and serves as an Associate Consultant for Roush & Associates.
Ms. Brightman’s experience in skilled nursing facilities includes direct care,
executive operations and marketing/community relations with organizations including
A.D.S, The Whittier Health Network and Beverly Health Care. In addition, she served
as Senior Services Program Director and Gerontology Division Administrator at Beth
Israel Deaconess Medical Center focusing on improving inpatient and outpatient care
as well as the discharge process for seniors transitioning to a skilled nursing
facility setting.
Her experience working in the community setting spans direct care, volunteering,
policy and program administration, case management, executive operations, and
marketing/community relations with organizations including Elite Home Health Care,
Hallmark Hospice, The Executive Office of Elder Affairs, Jewish Family Children
Services and HouseWorks, LLC.
Her consulting assignments have included program development and member
recruitment for Vineyard Village at Home and Radius Inner Circle/DoveTail Health
as well as market analyses for long term care continuum providers in Massachusetts
and Rhode Island.
Ms. Brightman holds a B.A. from Saint Anselm College and a Masters Degree in
Health Services Administration from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
MARY WOODS, RN
 Mary Woods, RN is a Registered Nurse with over 30 years of experience in the health care field and is the Chief Clinical Consultant for Roush & Associates.
Prior to joining Roush & Associates, Ms. Woods served as the Chief Nursing Officer for a 140 bed skilled nursing facility located in the greater Boston area and part of the Partners HealthCare System. Here she worked collaboratively and extensively with the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care Department at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Ms. Woods is experienced in a variety of management positions within the acute hospital, Ambulatory Specialty and Long-term care settings. She has also worked in three separate Regional Health Systems in both Massachusetts and New York State. Currently, she provides a wide array of clinical consulting services to Roush & Associates not-for-profit consulting clients.
Ms. Woods was awarded a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Nursing from Keuka College in Keuka Park, New York and holds nursing licenses in Massachusetts and New York State.
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