Elizabeth M. Fago is a healthcare entrepreneur and operator with more than 30 years of experience in long-term, post-acute, and transitional care. She founded and led Home Quality Management (HQM), growing the organization into one of the nation’s largest privately held healthcare providers, with more than 100 facilities, 13,000 employees, and approximately $800 million in annual revenue prior to its divestiture in 2007.
Ms. Fago has extensive experience advancing care delivery models aligned with value-based payment and quality reporting frameworks. She participated in early CMS bundled payment initiatives that helped inform national payment and delivery system reforms and has worked across the care continuum to align clinical outcomes with sustainable reimbursement models. Her work includes the development of coordinated care approaches across hospital, post-acute, and home-based settings, leveraging clinical oversight, advanced technology, and artificial intelligence to support real-time decision-making, reduce avoidable utilization, and improve patient outcomes. She is currently engaged in initiatives focused on integrating care delivery across settings through collaborative models that align providers, operators, and care teams around shared accountability and value-based savings.
She has served in a number of advisory and governance roles, including appointment to the National Cancer Advisory Board at the National Institutes of Health, as well as service on the Harvard Medical School Systems Biology Advisory Council, the Health Care District of Palm Beach County Board, the Florida Council of 100, and the Scripps Florida Funding Corporation Board, where she contributed to oversight of state funding allocations supporting the development of the Scripps Florida campus and the advancement of biomedical research initiatives.
Ms. Fago has also supported biomedical research and innovation through her contributions to Scripps Florida’s, where she is recognized as a Founder, with the Elizabeth M. Fago Library dedicated in her name.
Her work reflects a continued commitment to improving care quality, strengthening care coordination, and advancing sustainable healthcare delivery models across the care continuum.
