Chris Nester

Director of Care Management @AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Los Angeles, CA, US

Co-Authored the Divisions Model of Care Program (receiving a score of 100%), the Utilization Management Program Description, The Organization’s Cultural Competence Program and its Risk Management Program. • Collaborate with the Organization’s Medical Directors and National Director of Quality to execute the organization’s Model of Care, Care Coordination, Risk Management and Cultural Competence Work plans. • Collaborate with National Director of Grants and Funding for Ryan White Specialty, Medical and Non-Medical Case Management contractual, operational and fiscal execution • Oversee fiscal budget for Medicare, Medicaid and Ryan White product lines • Collaborate with National Medical Director of Mental health to establish the organization’s first Community Standard of Mental Health practices. • Provide effective leadership to a Care Coordination and Utilization Management staff of 30 clinicians (RNs, LVNS, NPs, LCSWs, BSWs,) establishing goals, performance standards and accountability to those standards particularly as they relate to clinical outcomes of contractual requirements and accreditation guidelines. • Provide ongoing staff development towards professional and organizational goals via training, dissemination of evidence based practices, clinical industry standards and continuing education conferences, seminars and guest expert lecturers

Rush University

Doctor of Nursing Practice, Psychiatry and Mental Health

Virginia Tech

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Dual Major - Spanish Language and Literature, Psychology

The Johns Hopkins University

Bachelor of Science (BSN), Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing