J.A. Thomas Executive Biographies
Joanne Webb
RN Chief Executive Officer, Partner
J. A. Thomas & Associates, Inc.
Joanne Webb is CEO of J.A. Thomas & Associates, Inc. Prior to becoming CEO, Ms. Webb served as VP Clinical Consulting. In this capacity she provided leadership and training to our staff and clients in the areas of CMS compliance and clinical documentation. Ms. Webb is an expert in CMI analysis and in providing strategies for implementing successful sustainable documentation improvement programs that include physicians, clinical documentation specialists and coders. She is very involved in supporting the company�s sales and marketing efforts. As well as monitoring company performance Ms. Webb monitors client performance against JATA benchmarks.
EXPERIENCE
Ms. Webb�s areas of expertise include:
- Medicare inpatient prospective payment systems
- Clinical documentation for accurate reflection of SOI/CMI
- Medical record documentation analysis
- Hospital / Physician profiling
- CMS Hospital Quality Initiative
- Public speaking
- Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Medical-Surgical Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Emergency Department nursing
- Designing, planning, and implementing educational programs
- Providing training to all departments on new hospital-wide software program
EDUCATION
Joanne is a graduate of Georgia State University and has a Master of Science Degree in Adult Health Nursing.
