Biography

Maureen grew up in Grand Rapids, graduated from Catholic Central and GRCC (then known as GRJC), then transferred to the University of Michigan to complete her bachelor's degree. She received her master's degree in public health (MPH) from the UM School of Public Health in 1990.

Over her 28-year career, she has worked for the Kent County Health Department, the Michigan Department of Community Health, and ran her own consulting business. In 2008, she took a position at First Steps, Kent County's early childhood agency, as the manager of the Children's Healthcare Access Program (CHAP). After building that program, she moved to the position of Director of Health Initiatives, overseeing CHAP, Welcome Home Baby, FitKids 360, and the Kent County Oral Health Coalition.

In 2014, she led the formation of Health Net of West Michigan through a merger between First Steps' health programs and Kent Health Plan. She has served as Health Net's executive director since that time. In that role, she helps lead a number of system-level community initiatives, including the Kent County Population Health Consortium, Invest Health, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid's Accountable Health Communities project in Kent County, for which Health Net is the grantee.

Maureen is divorced and has one young adult son. She has been involved in singing and acting in local community theater for many years, and currently sings with the Grand Rapids Women's Chorus. She also enjoys reading, cooking (especially baking), and is a devoted basketball fan- Go Blue and Go Pistons!