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Prior to joining KCG, Yazell worked for five years at Providence Health and Services in Portland, Oregon, a $25B not-for-profit hospital and healthcare organization. His work on their health plan subsidiary improved their financial stability with a $75M turnaround during his first two years and integrated the acquisition of a twenty-hospital system into the Providence organization. In addition to Integrated Delivery System experience, Yazell has also worked for Humana for four years, a Fortune 100 health insurance organization. In this role, he developed their Medicaid service line into a $3B annual revenue line of business, winning 7 state contracts during a four-year period.

I have worked as a leader in healthcare for the past 20 years, and these past 12 months have been the most difficult of my career. * Effective and safe adoption of new science I truly believe that when the dust settles, and once we have been able to mourn all of the losses our country has suffered, we will see that this pandemic has been a catalyst for positive change within our industry. As a strong believer in getting the voice of the customer, and to make sure I wasn’t totally off base, I have spent the past four months reaching out to healthcare leaders within the region. Having spoken with physicians, nurses, quality professionals and C-suite leaders in over 30 organizations, I’ve made some initial observations.

In 2015, MUSC Health engaged KCG to develop a single-hospital ‘health system’ construct to better align the hospital, physician practice, and academic enterprise. To this end, KCG partnered with leaders from the hospitals, faculty practice, and College of Medicine to establish a divisional governance model – comprised of a single parent Board and discrete advisory Boards for each new, geographic region – to ensure that new entities were oriented with both regional and system goals, while maintaining relationships with the local community. The divisional governance model allowed local and parent Boards to split strategic and advisory responsibilities, while maintaining a manageable number of local advisory Boards. This model presented a hybrid between the legacy single-parent Board model and the inherited local-level Board model

In her new role as Senior Consultant, Hamilton will serve as an integral member of KCG’s healthcare consulting team, helping lead strategy engagements and client teams. Hamilton joined KCG in August of 2018 and has taken part in some notable projects, including the redesign of a client’s process and structure for completing its operating budget and the development of a strategic investment fund for a health system to invest in core initiatives and programs. Hamilton earned an MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and a BS in Business Administration from Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Antonacci graduated magna cum laude from the Honors College at the College of Charleston with a BS in Mathematics and a minor in Women’s and Gender Studies.