Mr. Schafer is president of Schafer Consulting Inc. and responsible for project leadership, marketing and contract development, operations oversight, finance, and quality control.
Sample
projects include:
Operations
due diligence on acquisition of a $700 million national human
service system
Risk
pool analysis and strategies for Lead Agencies managing care under Florida’s child
welfare privatization and global transfer of some $587 million from the
State to the lead agencies through the Florida Coalition for Children
Operations assessment and enhancement of a $56 million
county-city operated social services system that provides 53 different social
services programs including a comprehensive community mental health and
substance abuse treatment center, children’s services, MR/DD services, older
adult programs, home care, corrections and probation contractual services, with
a unionized workforce
Product line
assessment of adult and a geropsychiatric inpatient units, a Geriatric Assessment
Center, Intensive Outpatient Chemical
Dependency Treatment Program, Partial Hospital, and intake center for an acute medical hospital system
Interim turnaround management of two inpatient psychiatric units in acute care medical centers
National business development for a multi-state therapeutic foster care company including finding and providing intermediary services for an acquisition
Joint Commission accreditation for a large free-standing psychiatric residential treatment facility
CARF accreditation for an opioid treatment clinic and
a multi-service community agency providing behavioral health, home
health, MRDD case management, early intervention and Head Start
COA accreditation for a children and youth agency
providing free-standing psychiatric residential treatment, therapeutic
foster care and adoptions
Medicaid cost report, rate and licensing policies for
a staff-secure 176 bed adolescent residential treatment center serving
adjudicated adolescents with histories of habitual offending and sex offenses
Managed Medicaid behavioral healthcare plan for a non profit
children’s hospital
CARF accreditation and business consulting to a private Canadian foundation providing behavioral health and special education services to youth
As Vice President of United Psychiatric Group, a psychiatric hospital system operating
facilities in Ohio, Indiana, Kansas and New Mexico, Mr. Schafer was part of the
senior management team responsible for three new facility start-ups, then
provided backup to facility administrators, business development, government
and insurance contracting, and had line responsibility for operations of the
residential treatment units in each facility. During a three year period he
helped increase revenues from $35 to $100 million.
With Universal Health Services, he was National Director of Residential Admissions, developing government contracts with states and counties for UHS facilities in Florida and Texas.
While Executive Director of
the Child Guidance Center of the Lehigh Valley and Administrator of the
Philadelphia Center for Human Development, a large adolescent, adult, and older
adult psychiatric partial hospital, Mr. Schafer worked with Boards of Directors in
developing and managing budgets, strategic plans, quality improvement, risk
management, human resources, information technology, compliance, facility
master plans, fund raising (private foundation grants, federal grants, and
donations), community and public relations. In both these roles, the
organizations grew, and improved their financial and service quality.
As Supervisor of Planning and Community Relations for
KidPeace, a national children and youth
agency providing outpatient, inpatient, and wraparound mental health services
as well as residential treatment, therapeutic foster care, home and family
preservation services, Mr. Schafer worked with state and county government
agency officials as well as provider systems in order to develop contracts with
22 states and 100’s of counties, helping the organization grow from a 90 bed single-site
program to a multi-state, multi-campus children and youth service system.
As Residential Director of Today, Inc. in Newtown, PA,
a 120 bed residential treatment and outpatient drug and alcohol program for
adolescents and young adults, he helped increase the program from a single 60
bed long term unit to an integrated service that included an intake/short term
unit and a community transitional group home and shifted the service model to
emphasize family involvement.
As Coordinator of After Care Services for a large
community mental health center (Penndel MH Center in Bucks
County, PA) Mr. Schafer designed
and created a community-based service for 375 persistent mentally ill adults
being discharged from Byberry State Hospital
in Philadelphia.
This included writing successful federal, state, and private foundation grants
to hire additional caseworks. He was promoted to Director of Partial Hospital
Programs and oversaw the operation of the Looking Glass School, a special
education and day treatment program for adolescents, and two other adult
programs.
Mr. Schafer received a Master's in Divinity from Andover Newton Theological School in 1972.
He has published numerous articles relevant to the behavioral health and social services fields, e.g.:
- “CASSP in a
Managed Care Environment,” PA CASSP, December, 1997
- “Managed Child
Welfare: Seeking Successful Solutions,” Philanthropic Monthly, May, 1997
- “Marketing
Strategies for Managed Care,” Caring Magazine, Fall, 1996
- “How to Plan
Information Systems for Integrated Service Systems Targeting Dual Mental Health
and Substance Abuse Disorders”, co-authored with Bruce
Johnson, Managed Behavioral Health News, July, 1999
- Over 20 other
articles and information pieces published in print or on the Internet
