Lynn Hill Spragens, MBA
Partner, Spragens & Gualtieri-Reed; Consultant, Center to Advance Palliative Care
Lynn Spragens, MBA, is a partner with Spragens & Gualtieri-Reed, a consulting firm based in Chapel Hill, NC, and is founder of the firm. With more than 30 years of experience as a healthcare executive and consultant, Ms. Spragens provides strategic planning, business planning, and leadership support to clinical innovators within healthcare and community organizations across the nation.
She has worked extensively with non-profit health care organizations, philanthropic foundations, hospitals, health systems, group practices, home care providers, and hospices. Her areas of focus include palliative care and geriatrics with significant expertise in strategic planning and business planning to build successful new clinical programs that require coordination across the continuum of care and the development of programs that are well integrated into organizational strategy, meet business requirements, and serve the expanding market need for care to the seriously ill and aging population.
Ms. Spragens has worked closely for 22 years with the Center to Advance Palliative Care (www.CAPC.org) and is an author of business tools and curriculum utilized by CAPC. In 2011, she was awarded the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) presidential citation for having made significant contributions to the field of hospice and palliative medicine and in 2017 Ms. Spragens received the CAPC Innovation Award for leadership and innovation to the dissemination efforts of the field of palliative care.
Ms. Spragens has a master’s in business administration from the University of North Carolina and an undergraduate degree with honors from Duke, where she also served on the university Board of Trustees for three years as a student trustee.