Lynn Hill Spragens, MBA

Principal
Spragens and Associates, LLC
4304 Us Highway 70 W
Durham, NC 27705
919-309-4606

Ms. Spragens is president of Spragens and Associates, LLC and specializes in strategic business planning for health care organizations interested in building successful clinical programs that are well integrated into organizational strategy and meet business requirements. She has eighteen years of experience as a healthcare executive, including 9 years with Kaiser Permanente, and nine as a business and operations consultant to health care organizations across the nation.

Currently Ms. Spragens' work includes extensive work with the Center to Advance Palliative Care to promote increased access to Palliative Care in acute care hospitals. She serves as faculty for all CAPC conferences, a consultant to the Palliative Care Leadership Centers, author of the business tools and curriculum utilized by CAPC, and has served as project manager for the design and implementation of numerous hospital palliative care programs. She is the business consultant to the Promoting Excellence in Palliative Care in the ICU project, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In addition to her palliative care work, Ms. Spragens works with numerous non-profit organizations such as the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Grantmakers in Aging, and serves as a business advisor for three national nursing home initiatives, the Wellspring Institute, the Green House project, and the Pioneer Network.

Ms. Spragens presents widely on the business case for palliative care and her firm has analyzed data from numerous active programs to identify actual financial impact and opportunities for program expansion.

Ms. Spragens has an MBA from the University of North Carolina, and a BA from Duke.

If you have additional questions, please contact us via e-mail at: pallcare@partners.org