Mary Gelliarth

Quality Manager

Mary is originally from Cleveland, Ohio where she attended Cleveland State University and Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital School of Nursing. Her professional career includes positions in Ohio, Georgia, and Florida. Although Mary’s plan was to specialize in orthopedics, she quickly gravitated to Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health (ADM) positions in publicly and privately run sectors. To maintain medical nursing skills as well as behavioral health, Mary worked in an Urgent Care Center off hours. Mary’s relevant positions include being a Department Director for an Adult Psychiatric Unit in Atlanta, Mental Health/Chemical Dependency nurse at Lake and Glenbeigh Hospitals, Chemical Dependency Nurse at Hanley – Hazelden, Director of Utilization Review and Quality Management for Mandala Healing Center and Alternatives in Treatment. Mary also has managed care experience as a Quality Management Supervisor at the Health Care District of Palm Beach County / Personal Health Plan, and was the behavioral health liaison between those organizations and Agency for Health Care Administration Area 9 mental health providers. She has experience at the payee and payor aspect of insurance, understands the balance of advocating for Clients to utilize available insurance benefits, as well as the insurance rules governing administration of those benefits. Components of Mary’s mission include the concepts of instructing and supporting staff on quality models. The goal is not improvement, it is sustained improvement over consecutive re-measurement periods. Although the mission is challenging, the positive effects are quite exciting.