Leadership
Tasha Mears, RN, BSN, MHI, has over twenty years in health care experience as a Registered Nurse with a focus in information technology, quality, and revenue cycle management in post-acute healthcare settings. Mears has a Master’s in Health Informatics from Louisiana Tech University. She previously worked at Amedisys, a premier home health and hospice company, from 1998 as a Clinical Director to 2015 as the Senior Vice President of Clinical Informatics and was instrumental in the design and implementation of their point of care technology. Ms. Mears has served as the Chair of the Quality Working Group for the Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation. In 2009, she was appointed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as a member of the Technical Expert Panel Project: Care Transition Measure Development; a prestigious panel formed to develop measures used to deliver quality care to Medicare beneficiaries. Ms. Mears also served on the National Quality Forum, led the CMS Home Health Pay for Performance demonstration project for Amedisys, and was active in their CMS Innovation project for Model 3 Bundles. Ms. Mears is currently the Chief Operating officer of MedCentris, responsible for operations that ensure a unified and integrated strategy of care for an at-risk population of patients suffering from both acute and chronic wounds.
Amanda Estapa ACNP-BC, CWS, FACCWS, DAPWCA, is the Chief Clinical Officer for MedCentris, LLC. Amanda earned her Master of Science in Nursing from Vanderbilt University as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in 2004. She is a certified MedCentris Wound Specialist™ and a Diplomat of the American Professional Wound Care Association®. Her experience includes years of trauma and surgical critical care prior to narrowing her practice to focus on Wound Medicine in 2010. She has worked throughout the continuum of care in the acute, long term, hyperbaric and outpatient wound care settings. Amanda’s passion for education on the management of complex wounds and patient advocacy has taken her to the national stage as a speaker to help bring awareness to the specialty of Wound Medicine.
David Monic is the Senior Vice President of Business Development and Marketing for MedCentris. He has over 30 years of healthcare experience in various roles, including Business Development, Marketing, Operations, and Clinical Informatics. He has grown healthcare sales teams to scale from local, to regional, to national models. Monic provides market evaluation and strategic analysis regarding company expansion and growth. He has considerable expertise in assessing, launching, and managing CRMs for healthcare providers. His role in developing a home health physician portal and its marketing strategy, which resulted in more than 11,000 providers in 42 states adopting it, garnered Monic the 2011 Louisiana Governor’s Innovator of The Year Award. He served on various committees and boards during his 22-year employment stint with nationwide home health provider Amedisys, including the Quality and Technology Board, Medical Director Advisory Group, the American Heart Association Steering Committee, and functioned as Chairman of their Charitable Activities Committee. At MedCentris, Mr. Monic has been responsible for launching and leading the regional sales force, marketing team, acquisitions, and implementation of an enterprise CRM.
Guy Ranzino is the Senior Vice President of Operations for MedCentris. A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Ranzino is a Registered Nurse. He graduated from Charity Hospital School of Nursing in New Orleans. He has over 30 years as an experienced healthcare leader with a demonstrated history of roles in the Med-Surgical and Critical Care areas of East Jefferson General Hospital. Ranzino served over 20 years with Amedisys, a national leader in home health and hospice where he was positioned as an Area Vice President in both Operations and Business Development. His other leadership experiences include Chief Operating Officer for a Louisiana-based Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital and a Regional Clinical Administrator with MedCentris before accepting this role. Ranzino’s strengths include strong skills in Enterprise Healthcare Operations and Business Development Management, Corporate Structure Design and Team Building, Strategic Planning as well as Integrating Staff and Processes with Mergers and Acquisitions. He has served on various committees and boards throughout his extensive healthcare career and is a member of the American Nurses Association and Louisiana State Nurses Association.
Kelly is a native of the New Orleans area with over 30 years of progressive accounting and finance experience across multiple industries.
She holds a Master of Science Degree in Management from Troy University, Alabama and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from The University of New Orleans.
She began her accounting career at Sysco Food Services of New Orleans as a Staff Accountant before transitioning to healthcare with Universal Health Services, Inc. as a Senior Accountant and then on to HCA as an Accounting Manager for Lakeview Regional Medical Center. She enjoyed an extensive tenure in the hospitality industry with Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, as an Assistant Director of Finance, participating in numerous front- and back-of-the-house system migrations and completing hotel renovations including post-Hurricane Katrina recovery. She further expanded her accounting knowledge by joining a New Orleans law firm that specialized in Medical Malpractice and Environmental Law before returning to the Healthcare Industry.
Advisory Board
Prior Experience:
- Business Transformation consultant for
- Dunn & Bradstreet, Barclays, GE Capital, and CitiBank
Education:
- BS, UC Berkeley
- MBA, Cornell University
Prior Experience:
- Providing EPS guidance and managing the budget and forecast models
- Venture Capital and Private Equity funds Investor
- Board Member for the Dunn Family Foundation (DFF)
Prior Experience:
- Consulting: MDVIP, CenturyLink, P&G
- Marucci Sports
- Peter Mayer
- Shaw Group
Education:
- BS, Lynn University
- MA, Hofstra University
Prior Experience:
- RN, Baton Rouge General Hospital ICU
- Branch supervisor for Chase Bank
- Volunteer for the Sister Dulce Ministry for the Sick and Dying at Cypress Springs
Education:
- Louisiana State University
- Baton Rouge General School of Nursing