Stroudwater Associates, a leading national healthcare consulting firm specializing in mission-critical strategic, operational and financial solutions for healthcare leaders’ most pressing challenges, announced the addition of four consultants and its first directors of human resources and marketing.

C. Ross Berry joined Stroudwater as a Principal. A native of South Carolina, Berry is a healthcare leader with more than 25 years of strategic, operational and financial leadership experience in healthcare. Berry joined Stroudwater after years of service as an executive in both rural and urban community hospitals, primary care, multispecialty and large subspecialty clinics, as well as population health based management services organizations. He began his healthcare career with Hospital Corporation of America in Atlanta, Georgia, where he gained expertise in developing and operating physician networks that led him to The Emory Clinic followed by PROMINA Health System. Berry also served as the chief executive officer of two large independent cardiovascular practices in North Atlanta, and was instrumental in leading both practices to industry recognition for Outstanding Operation and Financial Performance by receiving Certificates of Superior Performance from the Medical Group Management Association each year from 2000-2002 and 2006-2010.

Berry is committed to continuous learning, both personally and professionally, as well as attaining quality improvement recognition in the healthcare field. As CEO of Solaris Heart Group in the metropolitan Atlanta market, he was awarded both the MGMA/ACMPE Medical Practice Executive of the Year and the AAMA/ACCA Award of Excellence in 2010, becoming the first professional to receive recognition from both organizations in the same year.

Under his tenure as hospital CEO, his facility was recognized as the top performing hospital in the RegionalCare Hospital Partners organization with the Chairman’s Award for Quality and received the J.D. Power & Associates Award for Distinguished Hospital Inpatient Service of Excellence.He earned a bachelor’s degree from Francis Marion University, formerly the University of South Carolina at Florence, and was awarded a Master of Business Administration from Kennesaw State University in 1997.

Jacquetta Johnson joined Stroudwater as its first Director of Human Resources. An accomplished human resources and talent acquisition professional, Johnson has more than 15 years of strategic HR experience. She has worked in a variety of industries, and a significant portion of her career has been in the healthcare industry, including acute care, long-term care and rehabilitation.

Johnson spent several years working with Piedmont Healthcare, one of the largest not-for-profit healthcare systems in Georgia, where she held steadily increasing leadership roles.Prior to joining Stroudwater, Johnson formed J3 Consulting, an HR consulting firm specializing in building HR infrastructure for small companies. Most recently, she developed the HR infrastructure and became the first Director of HR for the College Football Hall of Fame in Downtown Atlanta.Johnson earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Human Resources Management from Georgia Southern University and a Master of Business Administration in Executive Management from Troy University.

She has also earned and maintains certifications as an HR professional through the Society of Human Resources Management and the HR Certification Institute.

Clare Kelley joined Stroudwater as a Consultant, and brings to the firm her passion for public health and healthcare policy, as well as a strong background in geography, cartography and data visualization in the healthcare space.

Kelley interned at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice where she researched and reported on numerous international representations of healthcare variation. In a similar role at the not-for-profit Partners in Health, she assisted in making healthcare facility maps for major sites and analyzing data to aide in the decision-making behind new facility sites.

She has created base maps of healthcare facilities in Haiti, Rwanda and Malawi to be distributed to citizens and presented to organizations. At Stroudwater, Kelley contributes to the Affiliations & Partnerships, Strategy, and Rural practices, helping to ensure sustainable access to healthcare for all communities.Kelley earned her Master of Public Health from The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. She holds a B.A. in Geography from Middlebury College and is a member of the Association of American Geographers.

Kimberly McCall joined Stroudwater as its first Director of Marketing. With more than two decades in marketing, communications and public relations, McCall’s healthcare experience includes serving as Anthem’s director of marketing for Maine. She was the first marketing manager at MaineHealth, a healthcare system ranked among the nation’s top 100 integrated healthcare delivery networks; she also worked at one of Maine’s largest law firms as marketing and business development director, where she helped launch Affordable Care Act and Data Privacy practice groups.

For a dozen years, McCall helmed her own boutique marketing, writing and media buying agency, McCall Media & Marketing, Inc.McCall has a BA in Communications and her continuing education endeavors include earning marketing and strategy certificates from Columbia Business School and Harvard University.

Lan Mai Nguyen joined Stroudwater as a Consultant in the firm’s Valuation, Compliance and Physician-Hospital Alignment practices. Nguyen has a strong background in data analysis and process improvement; in her previous role as a patient-safety analyst at Synensys Health, she performed statistical analyses across various healthcare data streams, including quality, patient safety, and finance, helping to drive evidence-based decision making for clients around quality and patient safety improvement.

She also served as an Oracle Financials implementation consultant at Hitachi Consulting, where she improved client business processes by implementing global technology solutions and leveraging enterprise resource planning systems.As a former Certified Nursing Assistant, Nguyen has firsthand experience with clinical care and a deep understanding of the importance of clinical quality, safety, and patient empowerment across the care continuum. She brings a strong commitment to patient-centered solutions to each Stroudwater client engagement.

Nguyen earned a Bachelor of Science with honors in management from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she also received certificates in Information Technology Management and Finance. She received her MBA from Georgia State University and is currently a candidate for a Master of Health Administration.

Jonathan Pantenburg joined Stroudwater as a Consultant, where he brings a strong record of leadership in rural healthcare. A highly accomplished, results-driven senior executive, he has more than 12 years of progressively responsible experience advising profit, non-profit, and governmental entities through complex issues including cost reduction, acquisitions, contracts, financial analysis, and operations. At Stroudwater, his expertise is focused on the Rural practice area.

Pantenburg served as chief financial officer and chief operating officer of Kahuku Medical Center, a 21-bed non-profit critical access hospital on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii. Under his leadership, Kahuku Medical Center saw increased post audit total margin and operating revenue; he modified, maintained, and performed ongoing internal audits, expanded services to include primary care and computed tomography, and implemented a fully integrated clinical EHR in five months and business office functions in 11 months, among other improvements.

The high clinical, operational and quality standards achieved at Kahuku were recognized through accreditation from The Joint Commission, a significant accomplishment for a critical access hospital. Prior to his role at Kahuku, Pantenburg served in CFO and similar executive roles at Hawaii Behavioral Health and Hawaii Department of Health.He holds a BA in history from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a BBA with honors in Accounting from the University of Phoenix. He earned a Master in Health Administration at Ohio University in 2016.