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Lisa Tripp, JD, is a nationally recognized expert on healthcare regulatory matters. She has more than two decades of experience working with health facility regulators at the state and federal levels. She began her career as an attorney with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in 2000 and spent six years litigating cases that relied on state survey agency investigations of nursing homes and hospitals.
After leaving HHS in 2006 for an academic position, she consulted with many state health departments and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) about regulatory matters concerning nursing homes, hospitals, and other providers. In 2015, she accepted a position with CMS as a technical director focusing on long-term care enforcement matters. In that role, she led the effort to rewrite the CMS guidance on immediate jeopardy and to update the guidance on abuse and neglect.
In 2020, she was appointed to the CMS-CDC COVID-19 Task Force, where she helped draft the Hospital Without Walls waivers, and then co-led the team that wrote and implemented the CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver. In her task force role, she also led the CDC/CMS nationwide nursing home strike force initiative to assist nursing homes that were experiencing large COVID-19 outbreaks.
After leaving government in 2021, Lisa led the advocacy team at Medically Home, which was instrumental in getting Congress to extend the CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver in 2022 and getting the House and Senate to introduce bills for a five-year extension of the waiver in 2024. Lisa also worked with Medically Home customers in more than a dozen states to navigate a wide range of regulatory issues.
She has been a frequent speaker at health regulatory conferences, including the annual state survey agency director conference, and in April of 2024, she co-chaired the first conference to focus specifically on the legal and regulatory aspects of hospital at home.
Shira Hollander, JD/MPP, is a health care attorney and policy advisor with over a decade of experience developing policy, advocating for patients and providers, and advising hospitals, health systems, payers, and pharmaceutical companies on compliance with health care rules and regulations.
As an attorney in private practice at Latham & Watkins LLP, Shira advised hospital, pharmaceutical, and payer clients in matters concerning violations of the False Claims Act, regulatory issues involving CMS, and compliance with government contracting regulations.
After leaving private practice, Shira joined the American Hospital Association, where she led AHA’s federal advocacy strategy on enabling the use of telehealth during COVID-19 and secured several flexibilities in enforcement of telehealth law. She also led AHA advocacy and member education on value-based payment and innovative payment and care delivery models.
Shira joined Medically Home in March 2022 as the Director of Federal and State Strategy. In that role, Shira and Lisa designed and executed Medically Home’s advocacy strategy, which was instrumental in getting Congress to extend the CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver in 2022 and introduce bills for a five-year extension of the waiver in 2024. Shira and Lisa’s immersive, live demonstrations of hospital at home – which Medically Home was invited twice to offer inside the U.S. Capitol – were critical to Congress Members’ understanding of and support for hospital at home care. Shira has deep expertise on state regulations supporting or impeding care in the home and advised Medically Home customers in nearly two dozen states on complying with these and other regulations. She also created and maintains the State Campaign for Hospital at Home website to provide advocacy and information for state laws that advance care in the home.
Shira holds a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center and a Master of Public Policy (MPP) from the Harvard Kennedy School, where she was the recipient of the Ellen S. Raphael award, bestowed upon one graduating MPP student who exemplifies academic achievement and public service. Shira also holds a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania.
Colleen Hole, BSN, MHA, FACHE, is a nationally recognized leader in hospital at home. She was the executive tasked with building Atrium Health’s Hospital at Home program at the start of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. Colleen built that program over seven hospitals in the Charlotte metro area to become the biggest, most successful, DIY hospital at home program in the country. The success of the program has yielded deeper investments into remote patient monitoring capabilities and wearable devices that make the hospital at home experience convenient and user-friendly for Atrium Health patients – so much so that patient satisfaction scores are markedly higher compared to care provided in the system’s bricks-and-mortar facilities – while also putting downward pressure on the cost of delivering care.
While at Atrium Health, Colleen also served as the vice president of clinical integration and chief nurse executive for Atrium Health Medical Group, responsible for non-provider clinical practice and role optimization in ambulatory care. Prior to implementing hospital at home in March of 2020, Colleen served as Atrium Health’s vice president of clinical integration in population health, where she was responsible for integrating the principles of population health and value-based care into clinical and operational practice. Colleen previously served in the system’s CHS medical group, providing strategic and operational leadership of six provider specialties including, pulmonary, critical care, infectious disease, palliative care, geriatrics and emergency medicine. In addition, she also led the CHS critical care network to standardize, coordinate and enhance critical care services across all the Carolinas Health System (which became Atrium Health) facilities and implemented the virtual critical care program to monitor nearly 400 ICU beds across the region – a program Atrium Health continues to depend upon to support some of its more rural hospital locations. Colleen’s early and mid-career positions were primarily in acute care nursing leadership roles.
Colleen received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and began her nursing career at Charlotte Memorial Hospital in 1984, which is now known as Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center and is the flagship hospital for the Southeast region of Advocate Health, of which Atrium Health is a part. She was also a 2008 recipient of the North Carolina Great 100 award and is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Evan Pankey, MMSc, is a Lean Start Up Intrapreneur, product executive and health care informatics specialist with over 15 years of in-depth experience. His product expertise spans leadership from product ideation, positioning and pricing through successful launch, and customer validation in a highly competitive EHR environment. Evan’s practical skills include UX research, vendor negotiation, controlled medical vocabularies, agile project management, and event planning. Evan’s work focuses on leveraging curiosity, creativity, human capital and web information technology to improve value-based health care delivery in the US and beyond.
Jess Yang, DNP, ACNS-BC, RN, is a seasoned business leader with 20 years of experience in healthcare, specializing in driving innovative product development and operations. Passionate about efficient operations and achieving strategic goals, she leads interdisciplinary teams to deliver impactful products from minimum viable product to maturity. Utilizing an agile, data-driven approach, Jess excels in breaking down complex problems into actionable steps, aligning product vision and positioning with market needs, and crafting effective go-to-market strategies. Jess has 13 years of experience as an acute care nursing leader at Massachusetts General Hospital and six years of experience at Medically Home in the hospital at home care model. At Medically Home, Jess designed and launched their first medical command center and lead nursing operations, implemented HaH with partner health systems, designed their proprietary software from inception to maturity and in recent years oversaw the HaH business service line.
Dr. Lucille Woodard, MD, has held several roles as a family medicine physician. Throughout her career she has focused on enhancing care for all patients with a particular focus on underserved. She currently practices in an outpatient setting providing primary care with a focus on healthy lifestyles and prevention, as well as providing disability evaluations to Veterans. Prior to her most recent role she was an Implementation Physician Lead for the Medically Home Group based in Boston, MA. In this role, she worked to lead the way in decentralizing patient health care and helping hospital systems and healthcare organizations create a successful network to provide virtual hospitals at home.
She practiced the full scope of family medicine in inpatient and outpatient settings. Upon completion of her training, she practiced at a Federally Qualified Health Center in the North Omaha urban community where she was born and raised. She was able to work at Charles Drew Community Health Center and Creighton University Medical Center where she was able to receive care herself when she was uninsured. She wanted to be able to provide that same care for her community. She then continued to practice the full scope of family medicine at the community-based hospital, the Bellevue Medical Center. She has had the privilege of caring for a diverse population of patients and their families throughout the entire spectrum of life, from sunrise to sunset. She spent the five years as the Veterans Medical Director for Nebraska Western Iowa Veterans (NWI) Affairs Health Care System. She was instrumental in creating the first Women’s Health Clinic in the NWI region, providing structure to the women’s health Program throughout the VA, and working to reduce disparities between women and male Veterans.
Dr. Woodard holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She received her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She completed her family medicine training at Omaha, NE's Clarkson Family Medicine Residency training program. She is a board-certified family medicine physician of 20 years. She is also a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, Nebraska Academy of Family Physicians, American Medical Association, Omaha Chapter of National Council of Negro Women, National Medical Association and NAACP.
