Regina Elkins
740.817.2301
helkins@columbus.rr.com

Reggie frequently works with Somerset’s Health Care Team as a consultant. Reggie has worked in the health care industry for more than 25 years in varying leadership roles for both hospital and physician networks. Reggie’s management career began when she served as the Director of Cardiovascular/Neurological Services for Mount Carmel Health, an Ohio based health system. For five years Reggie worked as the Vice President of Operations for Ambulatory Management Services, a physician practice management and consulting division of Trinity Health. Reggie has an extensive background in physician network operations, including practice acquisition, network start-up, physician compensation, practice and network operations, financial management, revenue cycle performance and assessment, budget and proforma creation, physician governance and practice/network financial turnaround. Day-to-day operations, revenue cycle performance and network financial turnaround are of special interest to Reggie, and she has provided extensive client work in these areas throughout the United States. Reggie was instrumental to the start-up and growth of an Ohio-based physician network that now employs upwards of 125 physicians.

Mary K. Knerr
317.472.2219
mknerr@somersetcpas.com

Mary is a supervisor in the Health Care Team at Somerset. She is a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor and has several years of experience in customer service, computer and accounting related positions. Mary brings more than 14 years of hands-on experience in the health products, construction and retail products fields. Previously, she has managed and maintained computer networks, supervised product orders and customer service and had direct responsibility for all aspects of bookkeeping. Mary consults with clients regarding their accounting software needs, including selection, installation, implementation and training. Mary graduated from Ivy Tech State College with a degree in Computer Science and has completed additional course work.

Charles H. Mason, Jr., FACHE
260.373.7057
charles.mason@parkview.com

Charlie frequently works with Somerset’s Health Care Team as a consultant. Earlier in his career, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Parkview Health in Fort Wayne, Indiana and now serves as President Emeritus of Parkview. From 1975 to 1996, Charlie’s career was in California where he participated in merging a 300-bed nonprofit hospital with a 400-bed district hospital into Mills-Peninsula Health Services. From there he was one of the four key CEOs that created California Health System through a merger of four California hospitals, which was later merged into Sutter Health. With these many years of experience in the health care industry, Charlie’s areas of expertise include strategic assessment, strategic visioning, human resource assessment, communication of strategic and operational imperatives, mediation and facilitation. Charlie is a graduate of Emory & Henry College in Virginia and received a Master of Hospital Administration from Washington University Medical School in Missouri. He serves on the boards of directors of the Indiana Hospital & Health Association, Fort Wayne/Allen County Economic Development Alliance, Northeast Indiana Regional Marketing Partnership and the University of St. Francis in Fort Wayne. Charlie is a member of the American Hospital Association where he serves as a member of the AHA Regional Policy Board representing Indiana. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and a member of the Greater Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce.

David W. Oster, MBA
208.921.4462
doster5126@aol.com

David frequently works with the Health Care Team of Somerset CPAs as a consultant. He has been a successful leader for many years in the health care industry, with extensive experience at the Executive Director and CEO level. David received his B.A. from the University of Colorado and an MBA from National University in San Diego, California (Summa Cum Laude). He also received top honors from the U.S. Army Transportation Officers Basic and Advanced Courses and Department of Defense Comptrollership School. For his work while Executive Director of Saint Alphonsus Physician Services, Inc., David won the Qualis Award and Blue Cross Quality Award. David has worked for years in both for-profit and not-for-profit sectors. He once ran the Northern California Region of MedPartners, Inc., the largest fully-delegated health care network of both hospitals and medical groups in the nation. After that, David became a Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions for MedPartners, successfully acquiring and integrating many medical groups and hospital organizations (50 plus) into the company. David has operated both hospitals and physician groups and knows the nuances of both. He has also served as the interim CEO of troubled hospital organizations and led them to successful turnarounds. David has extensive skill and expertise in assembling and leading high performance teams during stressful situations in health care organizations. He also has deep experience in working with Boards of Directors to both educate and train them in creating a high performance organization. David also brings strong experience to the formulation and execution of strategic plans in health care organizations. The strength brought in assistance of actual execution of the plan is a unique skill set on the part of David and Somerset. His key areas of expertise include:

• Turning around troubled medical organizations
• Working with administrators and physician leaders, creating and directing high performance teams to achieve success through strong leadership techniques, financial discipline and organizational reform/restructure
• Assisting new medical organizations through the development and building process
• Working with medical organizations to create and execute strategic plans
• Working with medical organizations requiring a financial turnaround and/or increased profitability
• Providing interim management services at the CEO level
• Board of Directors education, development and effectiveness training
• Mergers and acquisitions direction, advice and execution
• Integration of physician groups into hospital organizations
• Physician compensation planning