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The Home Health Care Innovation Summit: Meeting Patients Where They Are

Debra Corbett

Vice President, Care
Management Solutions,
VNS Health

Debra Corbett is the Vice President of Care Management Solutions for VNS Health. Debra has over 25 years of experience in health care quality and care management. Most recently she served as VP for Quality, Risk Adjustment and Care Coordination at CinqCare. Previously she served as the Director of Clinical Service Strategy for Senior Products at Tufts Health Plan, and as the Emblem Health Program Director for Beacon Health Options. Other related positions include serving as the AVP for Care Management and Quality at VillageCareMax. Since 2008, Debra has worked as an independent consultant enabling her to further broad her experience in the industry. She has a BA from St Michael’s College and her graduate studies were in Clinical Psychology at the University of Nebraska. Debra is a Certified Professional in Health Care Quality.

James Powell, MD

Chief Executive Officer,
Clinical Practice Group,
DocGo

James R. Powell, M.D. is a board-certified internal medicine physician and healthcare executive who serves as CEO of the Clinical Practice Group at DocGo. He leads clinical strategy across the company’s bi-coastal locations and services, specializing in hybrid care, telemedicine, and Value-based services. Dr. Powell focuses on designing workflows and partnerships that improve access, outcomes, and the comprehensive wellness of underserved communities. 

Katie Westman

Director of Clinical
Programming, Continuing
Care Service Line,
Allina Health

Tyler Okoren

Executive Director of
Consumer & Employer
Solutions,
Sentara Healthcare

Tyler is the Executive Director of Consumer & Employer Solutions at Sentara Healthcare, specializing in the space where digital transformation meets daily operations. A former Administrative Fellow and M&A Manager, Tyler brings a unique “business-meets-bedside” perspective to healthcare leadership.  Over the past 10 years at Sentara, he has scaled virtual care programs from their infancy to a system-wide powerhouse generating over $20M in annual revenue with over 220K visits in 2025 across multiple specialties of care.

In 2025, Sentara’s employer service contracts grew by 20% while retaining every existing client. Additionally, we are in the process of reimaging our occ health operational model to better meet the evolving employer needs in the market.

When he isn’t refining virtual care strategies or employer care, you can find him baking, playing games with his wife and three kids, trying to surf, or trying to improve his serve on the Pickleball court.

Kelly McCabe

Director, Community Health
Interventions & Research,
Sinai Urban Health Institute

Kelly McCabe joined SUHI in June 2020 and currently serves as Director of Community Health Interventions & Research, providing leadership for SUHI’s community health worker (CHW) interventions and research development, along with efforts to integrate and evaluate CHW interventions within Sinai Chicago (Sinai). She develops, designs, implements, and evaluates intervention research, focusing on integration into Sinai. As director, she leads grant writing and management, developing research and funding plans, data analysis, and dissemination activities.  She serves on the DePaul University/SUHI Advisory Committee and leads Sinai’s inaugural CHW Steering Committee. Kelly has over 20 years of experience in health equity work, public health grant management, and community-based research. Her experience includes designing, implementing, and evaluating research programs aimed at addressing health inequities in underserved communities. She brings considerable epidemiological skills to her work in analyzing health data to develop impactful and practical strategies.

Kelly has advanced public health strategies in a variety of settings including field locations in developing countries, state and local governmental entities, academia, and currently at SUHI. Prior to joining SUHI, Kelly worked at the Department of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she directed federally funded clinical research studies testing and implementing an HIV intervention for African American women and their teenage daughters. She served as Co-Investigator on a pilot research study to expand the intervention to a younger cohort and was a Sub-Investigator on a randomized control trial in South Africa.

Kelly also has experience working at the Cook County Department of Public Health and the Louisiana Office of Public Health Infectious Disease Epidemiology Section. She has conducted outbreak investigations, led emergency preparedness exercises, and analyzed large amounts of surveillance data to develop and evaluate programmatic initiatives and disseminate information to a broad audience.

Most notably, her Peace Corps experience in Paraguay was formative and motivated her to pursue a career rooted in community health.

Education:

M.S.P.H., Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

B.A., Molecular and Cellular Biology/Spanish language, Northwestern University

 

The Home Health Care Innovation Summit: Meeting Patients Where They Are

As healthcare delivery rapidly shifts beyond traditional clinic walls, for hospital and health system leaders, the real challenge isn’t whether care moves into the home. It’s how to operationalize, staff, support, and scale high-quality care in decentralized environments without adding complexity or cost.

This virtual summit, produced in partnership with TytoCare, brings together provider leaders who are actively redesigning care delivery, from in-home clinical teams and mobile programs to hybrid models supported by virtual oversight, to share what’s working in real-world settings.

Rather than focusing on theoretical models or future-state concepts, the sessions spotlight proven “bright spots” where health systems and care organizations have successfully:

  • Extended clinical reach into the home and community
  • Enabled frontline clinicians to practice at the top of their license
  • Reduced avoidable emergency department utilization
  • Built trust and continuity through provider-led, patient-centered care

Each presentation takes a distinct angle on delivering care where patients live, examining operational design, clinical workflows, staffing models, and enabling technology that support safe, efficient, and scalable care in the home.

The goal of the summit is not inspiration alone, but translation: breaking down how these care models function day-to-day and equipping provider leaders with practical, replicable strategies they can adapt across service lines, populations, and geographies.

Agenda highlights:

  • Setting the Context for Home-Based, Mobile & Provider-Led Care
  • Mobile Care & Community-Based Health Delivery
  • The Modern Visiting Nurse Model
  • Hybrid Home + Virtual Care Models
  • Scaling Home-Based Care Programs
  • Specialized Use Cases in Home Health & Mobile Care
  • From Pilot to Platform—Scaling Care Where Patients Are

 

Co-Hosted By:

Debra Corbett

Vice President, Care
Management Solutions,
VNS Health

James Powell, MD

Chief Executive Officer,
Clinical Practice Group,
DocGo

Katie Westman

Director of Clinical
Programming, Continuing
Care Service Line,
Allina Health

Tyler Okoren

Executive Director of
Consumer & Employer
Solutions,
Sentara Healthcare

Kelly McCabe

Director, Community Health
Interventions & Research,
Sinai Urban Health Institute

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