Faizah Muheb joined ASU in December of 2003.   She received her MBA/MHA degrees from Georgia State University.  As Director of the CARE Program and ASU, she supervises the day-to-day administrative and operational components for the department. She also maintains CARE’s compliance as JCAHO certified Performance Measurement System, oversees various state and federal grant implementation and assists hospitals with implementation of the CARE program. Faizah has experience managing the PHA Core Measures database and provides ad hoc statistical analysis for a variety of ongoing ASU and PHA projects.

Samantha Cobb joined ASU in May of 2006.  She received her Bachelors Degree in Management with a minor in Accounting from Kennesaw State University.  Samantha’s role is Customer and Technical Support Associate.  She provides technical support and customer service for our entire suite of CARE products, including member education and training and user manual updates.  She is responsible for assisting our members with their data uploads of JCAHO Core Measures and is knowledgeable of the technical manuals and continual updates from the Joint Commission.  Samantha maintains the CARE website as a resource for our hospitals.     

Lynne Hall,RN BSN joined GHA’s ASU team in June of this year.  She is a graduate of University of Georgia with a Bachelor’s degree in Hospital Child Life.  She also earned her BSN from Emory University and has worked in Healthcare for 21 years both as a bedside nurse and in quality improvement.  As an ASU team member she is responsible for assisting with CARE TAC and the marketing and teaching of Care Products.  Lynne also has experience with abstracting and maintaining Core Measures that allows her to bring her clinical expertise to the team.  She also has her green belt in Six Sigma performance improvement.

Marvin Morrison Jr. joined GHA’s ASU Team in June of 2008.  He is a graduate of Kennesaw State University with a Bachelors degree in Information Systems.  As a Data Analyst for ASU, Marvin’s responsibilities include administering, aggregating, cleaning, and formatting various ASU databases. He is responsible for the systems analysis and design process for the various databases. He develops programs in Access, SPSS, Crystal Reports, and SQL relative to a wide range of routine and ad hoc projects. He also performs statistical analyses for GHA member hospitals and other researchers, and interprets data into various reports for member hospitals and GHA staff.

Leslie Sainovich joined GHA’s ASU team in 2002.  With over 14 years of data programming and manipulation, she developed the process and reports for quarterly Core Measure trending data and control charts that are published to GHA’s web site for member hospitals to utilize in their analytical efforts.  Leslie also programs the Georgia Discharge Data for outcomes reporting.  In addition she coordinates special projects such as programming the CART Conversion Utility, special uploads for individual hospitals as well as research project requests.     

Debbie Schmitz began with GHA as Program Assistant for the CARE Program in October 2005.  As CARE Contract Administrator, Debbie coordinates the contracts and billing for CARE2 and CARE Core.  Her responsibilities also include maintaining the member database and marketing and promotion of the CARE Program both locally and nationwide.  In addition she provides administrative support for the CARE Program.