Resume of Cathryn H. Winslow
SUMMARYCathryn Winslow is a nurse case manager, life care planner, operations manager. She has worked in the disability management field since 1984. She also has 20 years of clinical nursing experience, predominantly in critical care.
CERTIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION
Certified Disability Management Specialist, (CDMS) 1992; 1997; 2002; 2007
Certified Case Manager (CCM) 1993; 1998; 2003; 2008
State of Maryland Workers Compensation Case Manager (WCCM) 1999; 2003
Certified Nurse Life Care Planner (CNLCP) 2006
Bachelor of Science, Nursing
St. Joseph College,
Emmitsburg, Md. 1972
Coronary Care Nursing Certificate
Essex Community College, Baltimore, Md. 1979
Critical Care Nursing Certificate
Greater Baltimore Medical Center 1982
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Owner: Winslow Solutions, LLC: Provide individual case management services for persons with catastrophic illness or injuries. Primary focus - adult / elder case management. Provide life care planning and cost projection services for litigation (plaintiff and defense) and reserve purposes (insurance industry). Provide management support services for private rehabilitation sector.
Product Manager; Catastrophic Case Solutions: Corvel Corporation 2005 – 2008. Responsibilities included development and delivery of life care plans for plaintiff and defense. Developed and delivered associated products, including cost projections on catastrophic injuries, evaluations and cost projections on complex older claims, nursing expert testimony , expert witness locator services, Medicare set aside allocations and submissions, risk assessments.
District Manager: CorVel Corporation, April 1, 1999 – 2005. Operations manager for Corvel’s Maryland/DE District Office. Oversaw management and sales of all product lines for Maryland office, including: medical case management and associated services, vocational rehabilitation, medical bill review, and provider network development & maintenance. Responsible for customer sales and service implementation, plus quality assurance. Accountable for budgeting/financial goals. Developed and taught training program for certification of RNs as Workers Compensation Case Managers (WCCM) in Maryland. Developed life care plans & medical cost projections on catastrophic cases. Experienced expert witness/legal consultant.
Branch Manager - Medical: CorVel Corporation, May 1, 1997 – March 1999. Serviced and sold to accounts. General business management duties. Hired and trained new consultants. Monitored service quality. Expanded service volume and geography. Provided life care plans, expert testimony, and other legal consultative services related to catastrophic injury. Initiated and directed new product development, and outcomes measurements.
Director of Medical Services: Rintelmann and Associates, Inc., December 1988 – May 1997. Supervised, marketed, and directed medical case management department of regional case management firm. Managed worker’s compensation, group health, liability, and long-term disability cases. Compiled and supervised life care plans. Provided supervision and training on catastrophic injury cases (TBI, SCI, amputations, etc). Provided expert testimony for workers compensation cases, and life care plans. Provided in-service training in basic anatomy, mechanics of injury and abnormal conditions for insurance claims adjusters.
Medical Case Manager: Rintelmann & Associates, Inc. March, 1986 – 1988. Provided medical case management services for the physically disabled, primarily injured workers. Handled long–term disability claims and SSDI applications. Subspecialties included adult and adolescent traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, and cardiac disease.
Rehabilitation Specialist: Central Rehabilitation Associates,Inc., Vienna, VA 1984 – 1986. Monitored and coordinated care of physically disabled with catastrophic and non–catastrophic injuries. Clients included injured workers, and long–term disability recipients. Provided medical case management and vocational placement services.
Emergency Room Staff Nurse- Registry: Greater Baltimore Medical Center, 1986 – 1992. Provided acute emergency nursing care for community hospital.
Charge Nurse/Staff Nurse Coronary Care Unit: Greater Baltimore Medical Center, 1981 – 1986. Administered bedside nursing care to cardiac and other patients requiring intensive care. Also worked as charge nurse, overseeing shift on duty; delineating and supervising patient assignments.
Staff Nurse: U.S.P.H.S. Hospital, 1972 – 1973, 1978 – 1981. Provided general medical surgical nursing and critical care nursing in recovery room, medical intensive care unit, and surgical intensive care unit.
Occupational Health Nurse: Social Security Administration, 1973 – 1974, 1982 – 1983. Provided health care counseling, screening and first aid for employees and contractors on site in Social Security Administration offices in Baltimore, MD.
PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS
- Served on review/contribution committee for Case Management Practice Guidelines, Traumatic Brain Injury, 1994 – 1995.
- Compiled narratives for Manual of Basic Anatomy for claim trainees at The Maryland Insurance Group in 1995.
- Program Chair for "Eldercare 2000" one-day CMSA seminar for case managers presented, May 1997.
- Seminar presentation: "Case Management of Catastrophic Injury – Spinal Cord"; Presented to Zurich Commercial Insurance Company, Corporate Headquarters, January 1998.
- Panel presentation at Maryland Joint Task Force Conference: "Legislative update regarding Nursing Work group at Maryland Board of Nursing" June 1998.
- Panel presentation: "Trends in Managed Care" 14th Annual MWCEA Conference, September 1998.
- Member of Maryland Board of Nursing Work Group for Nursing Management of the Injured Worker, 1997 – 1998.
- Developed 16–hour training course for internal training of Corvel case managers – Certified by Maryland Board of Nursing as an approved Workers Compensation Case Management training course, December 1999.
- Developed and presented "Chronic Pain Case Management" at the CARPPS sponsored Pain Management Seminar December 6, 2000.
- Panel presentation "Ethics and Nursing Case Management" at Maryland Joint Task Force Conference June 5, 2001
- Medicare Set Aside Trust and Life Care Planning Techniques (Developed for In house training program – Corvel Corporation) 2003.
- Medicare Set Aside Life Care Planning presented to Maryland Trial Lawyers November 5, 2003, and MWCEA Annual Conference September 22, 2003.
- Developed and presented 4 hour workshop "Rehabilitation Perspectives– Coping with Catastrophic Injury" for Chesapeake Association of Rehabilitation Providers Private Sector (CARPPS), March 2004.
- Developed and presented 1–hour workshop "Rehabilitation Perspectives" for Maryland Brain Injury Association, March 2006.
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- Case Management Society of America: Program Chair of Chesapeake Chapter 1994 – 1997; President–Elect 1999–2000; President 2000 – 2001
- Brain Injury Association of Maryland Board of Directors: Member 2005 – 2006; Vice President 2006 – 2007; President 2007 – 2009.
