The healthcare sector has an impact on people throughout the country and on the planet. Technology advances that have enhanced patient care, treatment follow-up, and other crucial issues have contributed to the industry’s evolution over time. On various levels, the healthcare sector seems to be one of the best for working women. Healthcare is a large sector that includes companies that make drugs and medical equipment as well as payers and service providers. Healthcare has higher female representation than other sectors. Women hold executive management positions at the highest levels, including Dawn Maroney, President, Markets, & CEO of Alignment Health Plan.

Dawn is regarded as a pioneer in setting up businesses for success in value-based care, SDOH, health equity, Medicare, Medicaid, and coordinated delivery systems. She has spent the last three decades representing Medicare beneficiaries in the healthcare industry while expanding coverage and improving outcomes. She has succeeded in executive positions with Fortune 100 firms as well as cutting-edge startups. Dawn continuously develops new strategies to exceed shareholder value in a turbulent market characterized by sudden change and variation. She most recently took a Alignment Health from a startup to a successful IPO as a member of an exclusive group both within and internationally.

As CEO of Alignment Health Plan, Dawn Maroney is currently responsible for all aspects of the health plan, including member experience, member retention, growth, expansion, sales strategy, product development, compliance, and regulatory affairs, pharmacy, network contracting and management, and more. Dawn specializes on developing cutting-edge goods, leading brand marketing initiatives, and managing direct response initiatives. She also oversees the complex planning and implementation of sales initiatives, as well as the continual difficulty of combining these channels with Alignment’s wide-ranging provider, health plan, and hospital system network.

Inspiration behind Joining Healthcare

Dawn spent several years in the high desert after being born and raised in Southern California. She grew up showing dogs and enjoying riding horses. Her family has significant roots in California; most of them were raised in Los Angeles. She never got to experience and treasure that connection with seniors because she lost her grandparents when she was a young child. She decided to work in elder health care due to that loss.

Alignment Health Plan

Due to a growing provider shortage, the U.S. healthcare sector is facing a number of difficulties, including affordability and accessibility. The team at Alignment Health takes on these problems by offering a comprehensive range of services that make use of technology, assist the doctor, and prioritize the elderly. With regard to processing data from more than 200 distinct data sources against more than 170 artificial intelligence models, Alignment’s proprietary AVA technology platform does this to give the center’s staff useful insights for delivering individualized treatment at scale.

Wraparound services are provided by Alignment Health Plan to support primary care practices within its provider network. These services include virtual visits for urgent needs and preventive care, as well as at-home visits by Care Anywhere staff for patients who cannot travel to the doctor’s office. In certain markets, the center also offers direct primary care services, where Medicare patients can select an Alignment physician as their primary care provider. Dawn states, “Our primary care practice support helps address the provider shortage, improving access to care and lowering costs by keeping patients out of hospitals.”

View on Leadership

Leadership, for Dawn, means creating and developing a team of professionals who are connected, collaborative, share the same focus, and want to win. She wants anyone who works for her to grow and succeed. She says, “Everything I do and every decision I make is grounded in my faith in those who work for and with me.” Dawn expects everyone to use the Stop, Challenge, and choose approach in their business activities.

Dawn’s message for all emerging leaders is to “know your value. Stay the course. Stay true to yourself. “Remember the dreams you had as a little girl; never let them go, and know that time has no limit.” 

Way to Overcome Challenges

Dawn still has trouble finding a work-life balance. The field of senior health care is challenging and dynamic. She wants to ensure that the company always acts in the senior’s best interests. According to her, company decisions must be in line with what is best for the customers they serve.

Dawn takes “Good to Great” by Jim Collins into consideration to maintain her compatibility as a leader. She shares, “Good to Great illustrates how we can all triumph as time and experience pass and how that success can be ingrained into your corporate culture, taking your organization and the individuals within it from good to great.”

Visioning to bring Transformation

Healthcare organizations that have long tried to use data and technology to improve business operations, boost clinical outcomes, and increase patient happiness should and can copy the innovative care model developed by Alignment Health. The sector generates a staggering amount of digital data, much of which is segregated and unusable within enterprises. This gave Alignment a chance to significantly improve its competitive position through integrated data management. Dawn discovers that rivals in the healthcare sector are imitating Alignment Health. This is encouraging to observe and shows that the business is headed in the right direction. Her objective is to improve healthcare, one patient at a time. She wants to be a part of that by driving change to improve care for seniors across the US.

Website: www.alignmenthealthplan.com