Sherry’s Profile Sherry L. Aliotta is a Registered Nurse and a Certified Case Manager.She is an independent consultant specializing in care management for commercial and geriatric populations.Her clients have included HMO’s, PHO’s, Medical Groups, Hospitals, and foundations.Prior to becoming an independent consultant in 1997, she spent nine years in senior care management positions.This includes heading an innovative program for self insured companies that established a case management program in a fee for service environment. Additionally, she served as Director of Patient Care Management for FHP, Inc. and National Director of Case Management for Prudential HealthCare.She also has a background in home health care and has held positions of progressive responsibility including Director of Nursing. In addition, Ms. Aliotta has a lengthy background as a home health case manager, a managed care case manager, and a case manager in fee for service, and workers’ compensation. Ms. Aliotta has authored numerous articles in peer reviewed journals, and contributed a chapter to a book: Managed Care and Chronic Illness: Challenges and Opportunities (1996).The chapter is entitled Components of a Successful Case Management Program.
Ann Llewellyn (left) hands Sherry CMSA president's gavel 2004-2005
Ms. Aliotta is a nationally recognized speaker on care management and has presented for the American Association of Health Plans, Managed Medicare and Medicaid Congress, California Association for Health Care at Home, American Society on Aging, AgeWave, American Association of Health Services Researchers, and others. She has served on National Groups including the Robert Wood Johnson HMO Workgroup on Care Management and the Council for Case Management Accountability, and chaired the Council 1998-1999. Ms. Aliotta has a BS in Nursing from the University of Evansville, and a Certificate in Medical Management from University of California, Irvine: Graduate School of Management. In 1996, the Case Management Society of America awarded Ms. Aliotta Distinguished Case Manager of the Year. She served as president of the Case Management Society of America (CMSA) in 2004-2005.
