Background
Betty Carey is a Maternity Management Consultant. As an independent consultant she provides program design assistance to Health Care Organizations, prenatal care providers and health sites. She is dedicated to helping organizations improve pregnancy and birth outcomes and decrease costs through health education and case management. She also represents innovative programs, products and services in women’s health for which she conducts training to improve implementation and to facilitate desired behavior change and compliance.
Expertise
She has expertise in low and high risk obstetrics, health education, case management, health services marketing, health promotion planning, and evaluation. She is familiar with the issues in perinatal care, health services delivery, medical benefits, managed care, private practice, and professional liability. She is “competent in all phases of Web-based clinical content design and her expertise in women’s health topics facilitates fast-paced Web-based content development.”
She has completed extensive professional development and training in subjects relating to quality healthcare, case management, managed care, and quality improvement. As an independent consultant she advocates for the profession of case management and tracks legislative trends that will impact case managers in Washington State.
Service
Carey is Past-President and Treasurer, 1999-2000, of the Washington Medical Case Management Association, an affiliate chapter of the Case Management Society of America. She is a member of both organizations and has served on a variety of commitees as follows:
CMSA, Case Management Society of America
Membership, 1998
Nominations, 1997-1998
Policies and Procedures, 1997-1998
Government Affairs, 1996-1997
WMCMA, Washington Medical Case Management Association
Nominations Commitee Chair, 1997-1998
Regional Conference Co-chair, 1997-1998
Disease Management Workshop Co-chair, 1997-1998
Fundraising Chair, 1999-2001
Carey is also a member of the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetrics
and Neonatal Nursing and the Washington Association for Health Care Quality.
Author
Carey is co-author of “Prenatal Education: Quality Materials Empower Patients to Improve Outcomes,” Inside Case Management, Aspen Publications, July 1999, Vol. 6, No. 4.; author of a 1995 white paper on case management presented to the Washington State Health Care Services Commission and moderator of the OB case managers’ talk list at PrenatalEd.com.