Leadership

  • Founder/Principal

    Teri Sholder, RN is Founder and Principal of Sholder Healthcare Consulting. She combines her extensive C-Suite experience with a profound understanding of how to engage health system board members, leaders and teams around common strategic goals to drive organization excellence.

    She spearheaded an award winning care coordination model leading to significant reductions in length of stay and post-acute care utilization that has been adopted in several U.S. hospitals.

    Over the last decade, serving in two large health systems as SVP and Chief Quality Officer, Teri used a proven methodology to lead both systems to national top decile ranking for quality, safety and operational efficiency.

    Teri brings her extensive expertise and proven track record of achieving health system goals to healthcare leaders aiming for clinical and operational excellence within their systems.

  • President

    With over a decade of experience as a senior executive in the real estate sector, Blake brings a wealth of strategic insight and leadership to Sholder Healthcare where he serves as President.

    As a real estate executive, Blake has led commercial recruiting efforts on several transformative multi-million dollar development projects and leverages his extensive business experience to help guide Sholder Healthcare.

    Blake is responsible for driving the company's strategic vision, cultivating client relationships, driving business growth, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality consulting services.

  • VP of Client Services

    As a dedicated and compassionate healthcare provider, Katy Bartley, Certified Nurse Practitioner has nearly two decades of experience spanning critical care, interventional radiology and nursing supervision.

    Leveraging her extensive experience collaborating with health system physicians, leaders, and teams, Katy excels in identifying inefficiencies and opportunities for performance improvement.

    Grounded in research, she brings a distinctive perspective to expedite progress by implementing impactful evidence-based solutions, standardizing care protocols, and enhancing patient outcomes.

    As a board-certified practitioner, her expertise extends beyond the bedside to active involvement in driving physician performance improvement on CMS’s merit-based incentive program (MIPS).

  • VP of Client Services

    Chelsea Shoemaker MA CCC-SLP is a Speech Language Pathologist with vast experience in both the acute and post-acute care settings.

    She has facilitated and led interdisciplinary teams to address quality and safety issues for patients with a focus on execution to achieve performance improvement goals. Chelsea’s proficiency extends to her role in developing a care transitions framework for patient discharge planning, where she introduces optimization strategies, collaborating seamlessly with nurses, physicians, and the care team to ensure the delivery of unparalleled quality care.