She has served as Chief Nursing and Operations Officer, Care Coordination, Utilization Management while providing value-based care, and Population Health to improve patient outcomes. Lorie has extensive knowledge of the Joint Commission and Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Regulations. She has served on Corporate Patient Safety Committees and oversight of compliance and reporting of quality and safety scorecards for 71 facilities with Health Management Associates. Lorie implemented the first care transitions team “Health Connect” resulting in a 7% decrease in readmissions in one year. 

In 2014, Lorie’s efforts to decrease high utilizers in the Emergency Department and readmission were published in the Generations Journal of American Society on Aging; “A Community-Based Approach to Address Health Disparities Among African American Medicare Beneficiaries in Mississippi.

Lorie is a graduate of Mississippi College with a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing. Lorie obtained her Masters in Nursing and Healthcare Administration from Loyola University and Masters in Population Health from the University of Mississippi Medical Center.