OMHSAS Staff Contact Information

Executive Council

Joan L. Erney J. D., Deputy Secretary Office of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services P. O. Box 2675 Harrisburg, PA 17105-2675 OMHSAS Receptionist: 717-787-6443

Responsible for administering all state-funded behavioral health services ranging from community to hospital programs. Focuses the OMHSAS effort on recovery from serious mental and emotional illnesses through community-based services. These services are designed to allow children, adolescents, and adults to break the cycle of repeated hospitalization or residential admissions.

Phil Mader, Director Aidan Altenor, Director, Bureau of Financial Management and Bureau of Community and Hospital Administration Operations P.O. Box 2675 P.O. Box 2675 Harrisburg, PA 17105-2675 Harrisburg, PA 17105-2675

Responsible for budget development / Responsible for implementing and monitoring of the community mental monitoring the community-based health program, HealthChoices services and the unified service system behavioral health program, state mental initiative through collaboration with the hospitals, and OMHSAS headquarters county administrative offices. Also operations. Also responsible for human responsible for overseeing and resources, business partner data directing the effective and efficient support, Internet communications, operations of the Commonwealth- procurement, telecommunications, operated psychiatric hospitals (state Medicaid financial support and review, mental hospitals) and South Mountain and Mental Health Community Support Restoration Center. Services. Roberta Altenor, Special Assistant Stan Mrozowski, Director Criminal Justice and Special Bureau of Children’s Services Populations P.O. Box 2675 P.O. Box 2675 Harrisburg, PA 17105-2675 Harrisburg, PA 17105-2675 Responsible for the policy, program, and Responsible for fostering development operations of the Children’s Behavioral of services and supports for consumers Health delivery system. The Bureau of who have special needs, through Children's Services promotes the collaborative relationships with emotional well-being of children and stakeholders and other systems, ensures that children with emotional including mental retardation, brain doisorders live, learn, work, and thrive in injury, deaf and hard of hearing, their communities. nursing homes, and criminal justice. Jessica Bradley, Executive Assistant Sabrina Tillman-Boyd, Director Consumer and Family Issues Bureau of Policy & Program P.O. Box 2675 Development Harrisburg, PA 17105-2675 P.O. Box 2675 Harrisburg, PA 17105-2675 Responsible for establishing relationships and providing technical Responsible for performing a full range assistance to consumer and family of planning and developmental stakeholder groups; assists in functions. This includes managed care strengthening consumer/family design and development, service stakeholder participation in all system design and development, policy OMHSAS activities. Serves as lead and program development, and state staff for OMHSAS Advisory and county planning, and human Committees/Mental Health Planning resource development within OMHSAS. Council. Dr. Mary E. Diamond, Medical Michael Jeffrey, Director Quality Director Management P.O. Box 2675 P.O. Box 2675 Harrisburg, PA 17105-2675 Harrisburg, PA 17105-2675

Serves as Chief Medical Officer for the Responsible for the development, state mental hospital system and as oversight, and direction of the quality Chief Clinical Officer with oversight of management program. Also responsible the HealthChoices program. for associated data management and HealthChoices is a managed care data reporting functions. The Quality program currently covering more than Management program provides the 70% of the medical assistance framework for OMHSAS to assess and enrollees across the Commonwealth. improve the quality of publicly-funded The Medical Director leads quality behavioral health administrative assurance activities and directs clinical services, clinical systems, and clinical programming by implementing "best care. Oversees management and practices" in clinical psychiatry and execution of Medicaid provider functions addiction treatment for the hospitals. and PROMISe system for behavioral health services. Oversees operation of Medicaid Fee for Service (FFS) authorization processes.

Sherry Snyder, Division Chief Linda S. Zelch, Division Chief Division of Eastern Operations Division of Western Operations P.O. Box 2675 300 Liberty Ave. Harrisburg, PA 17105-2675 Pittsburgh, PA 15222 Responsible for oversight of mental and health and drug and alcohol services in P.O. Box 2675 20 eastern region counties. Directs the Harrisburg, PA 17105-2675 operations of the Scranton and Responsible for oversight of mental Norristown Field Offices. Field Offices health and drug and alcohol services in are responsible for licensure, county 47 western region counties. Directs the plan review, HealthChoices oversight, operations of the Harrisburg and and day-to-day county government Pittsburgh Field Offices. Offices are interface. responsible for licensure, county plan review, HealthChoices oversight, and day-to-day county government interface. C. Lu Conser MPH, Executive Assistant to the Deputy Secretary P.O. Box 2675 Harrisburg, PA 17105-2675

Assists the Deputy with internal

executive activities of the office, including policy and program functions. Serves as OMHSAS liaison to the Office of Legislative Affairs, the Office of Communications, and DPW Human Resources.

Field Office Managers

Thomasina Bouknight, Community Michael J. Orr, Community Program Program Manager Manager Southeast Field Office Scranton Field Office 1001 Sterigere Street 100 Lackawanna Avenue Norristown, PA 19401 Scranton, PA 18503 Manages the Southeast Field Office in Manages the Scranton Field Office. Norristown. Responsibilities include, but Responsibilities include, but are not are not limited to, oversight of 5 limited to, oversight of 15 counties in counties in Southeastern Pennsylvania Northeastern Pennsylvania. The 15 (Montgomery, Delaware, Bucks, counties served by the Scranton Field Chester and Philadelphia). This field Office are Berks, Bradford, Carbon, office handles the licensure of mental Lackawanna, Lehigh, Luzerne, Monroe, health programs and collaboration with Northampton, Pike, Schuylkill, Sullivan, Norristown State Hospital. Susquehanna, Tioga, Wayne, and Wyoming. This field office handles the licensure of mental health programs and collaboration with Clarks Summit, Allentown, Danville, and Wernersville State Hospitals. Valerie J. Vicari, Community Julie Barley, Program Manager Program Manager Harrisburg Field Office Pittsburgh Field Office P.O. Box 2675 300 Liberty Ave. Harrisburg, PA 17105-2675 Pittsburgh, PA 15222 Manages the Harrisburg Field Office. Manages the Pittsburgh Field Office. Responsibilities include, but are not Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, oversight of 24 counties in limited to, oversight of 23 counties in Central Pennsylvania. The 24 counties Western Pennsylvania. The 23 counties served by the Harrisburg Field Office served by the Pittsburgh Field Office are Adams, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, are Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Centre, Clinton, Columbia, Cumberland, Butler, Cameron, Clarion, Clearfield, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Elk, Erie, Fayette,Forest, Greene, Juniata, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lycoming, Indiana, Jefferson, Lawrence, McKean, Mifflin, Montour, Northumberland, Perry, Mercer, Potter, Venango, Warren, Snyder, Somerset, Union, and York. Washington, and Westmoreland. This This field office handles the licensure of field office handles the licensure of mental health programs and mental health programs and collaboration with Danville, Torrance, collaboration with Warren, Torrence, and Wernersville State Hospitals. and Mayview State Hospitals.

State Hospital CEOs

Andrea Kepler, CEO Gerry Kent, CEO Wernersville State Hospital Norristown State Hospital P. O. Box 300 1001 Sterigere Street Wernersville, PA 19565 Norristown , PA 19401 Andrea is the former Chief Social This Chief Executive Officer has Rehabilitation Executive of responsibility for the 24 hour treatment of Harrisburg State Hospital individuals with severe and persistent (HSH)and led the Community mental illness. Administers a large Resource Team, which was residential facility in the Southeast region of developed to support individuals Pennsylvania. affected by the closure of HSH. As CEO she is responsible for the 24 hour treatment of individuals with severe and persistent mental illness, who have been court committed from Adams, Berks, Lancaster, York, and Lebanon Counties Edna I. McCutcheon, CEO Gregory M. Smith, CEO P.O. Box 111 1600 Hanover Ave. Torrance, PA 15779 Allentown, PA 18109 Edna was appointed as CEO in In addition to his duties as hospital CEO, July 2004, twenty-three years after Greg also administers the state hospital Risk starting at Torrance State Hospital Management, NRI-Performance (TSH) as a Social Worker 1. Measurement System, and the state hospital Subsequent positions at TSH PRN/STAT Medication database. He is a included Social Work Supervisor, faculty member of the National Executive Social Work Director, and Chief of Training Institute on the Reduction of Social and Rehabilitative Services. Seclusion and Restraint and has presented With a capacity of 233, the hospital nationally on this subject. He has 30 years provides recovery-focused inpatient experience in the public mental health services for individuals from 10 system supporting people with disabilities. counties in Southwestern Pennsylvania (Armstrong, Indiana, Blair, Butler, Bedford, Somerset, Cambria, Fayette, Westmoreland and 6 townships in Allegheny). TSH also operates the Sexual Responsibility and Treatment Program (SRTP) for the entire Commonwealth. Thomas P. Comerford, Jr., CEO Donna M. Ashbridge, CEO Clarks Summit State Hospital 1451 Hillside Drive 200 State Hospital Drive Clarks Summit, PA 18411 Danville, PA 17821 Has been a CEO since 1996. Provides leadership, Provides leadership, organization, organization,coordination, and direction of and direction of all facility services all facility services for this 185 bed inpatient for the 245 bed inpatient state state psychiatric hospital in North Central psychiatric hospital. The hospital is Pennsylvania. nine miles from Scranton and serves 11 counties in Northeastern Pennsylvania. David A. Kuchewary, CEO Thomas White, Acting CEO Warren State Hospital South Mountain Restoration Center North Warren, PA 16365 10058 South Mountain Road David has worked for DPW for 33 South Mountain, PA 17261 years in various administrative As the Chief Executive Officer at South capacities at state centers and Mountain Restoration Center, he is charged state hospitals. He was appointed with the general administration of the facility, CEO of Warren State Hospital a long term care facility committed to (WaSH) in March 2007. At WaSH providing the highest quality of care for its he provides leadership, residents in a safe, supportive environment coordination, and direction to an with the goal of maximizing their potential. organization which facilitates and supports the recovery process for individuals with severe mental illness. WaSH serves 13 counties in Northwestern Pennsylvania. In addition to his duties as CEO, David also serves as chairperson of the OMHSAS Unified Practices Committee.