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About GOODCARE.com®
Headquartered in Pittsford, New York with a second office in Washington, DC, GOODCARE.com ® is a privately run consultancy that helps consumers and businesses understand the puzzling world of healthcare services and financing. Our special focus is helping people during their pre-retirement and retirement years.
At GOODCARE.com ®, we provide targeted research, consulting and training, along with a wide variety of helpful resources to assist people at all stages of their lives plan for, and determine how to pay for, the healthcare they need.
We hope you find GOODCARE.com ® informative and useful. Be sure to take a look at our free, downloadable GOODCARE Tool Kit™. If you have any questions or problems that aren’t featured in this site’s FAQ section, please contact us. We’re always here to help you.
Meet the people behind GOODCARE.com ®
Dr. Kathryn McCabe Votava
President and founder of GOODCARE.com ®
Dr. Votava is a registered professional nurse and has a PhD in health economics and nursing from the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. She completed a pre-doctoral fellowship in community and preventive medicine at the University of Rochester and a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School. Prior to starting GOODCARE.com, Dr. Votava worked as the director of clinical specialties and education at Visiting Nurse Service of Rochester and Monroe County, Inc.
With her in-depth experience as a nurse practitioner and healthcare administrator, Dr. Votava is an expert in healthcare reimbursement and outcomes, including those related to Medicare, Medicaid and long-term care. A major focus of Dr. Votava’s research is healthcare costs and outcomes for people during their retirement years, and she has been published widely and spoken frequently on these topics.
Together with other healthcare experts in their respective fields, Dr. Votava and her staff work to develop customized solutions to clients’ questions and solve their healthcare puzzles. In order to help more people get the information they need about planning and paying for healthcare, in 2004 Votava created GOODCARE.com ®, an online source for information, resources and free tools.
Cymantha Campbell
Operations Manager, GOODCARE.com®
The friendly voice you’ll likely hear when you call GOODCARE.com ® is that of Cymantha Campbell, GOODCARE.com’ssm operations manager. Cymantha provides full administrative and operational support for the consultancy’s new headquarters in Pittsford, New York. Cymantha has in-depth experience working to help other people. Following her graduation with honors from The Maryland Institute of Art, she worked in the arts-in-education field as the assistant to the director of the Rochester City School District’s Artist in Residence program, and then as program coordinator for Young Audiences of Rochester. Before joining GOODCARE.com ®, Cymantha served as the operations manager for Fireproof Children, a nonprofit educational organization in Pittsford, New York. Her background includes office management, project management, office technology, event planning and Web design. Cymantha is available to answer your questions and provide other sources of information to help solve you and your family solve your healthcare planning and financing puzzles.
Ann Marie Rotter RN,CCM
Consultant, GOODCARE.com ®
Ann Marie Rotter is a healthcare consultant with over 30 years experience as a Registered Professional Nurse and over 20 years experience as a Certified Nurse Case Manager.
Her experience in case management has been with rehabilitation, insurance carriers and third party administrators. Prior to joining GOODCARE.com ®; Ann Marie worked with a large national insurance broker and risk management company assisting self-insured employers in developing managed care and injury management programs that were cost effective and met best practice standards. She has extensive knowledge of medical, disability and injury management programs and brings a solution oriented approach to a wide variety of client healthcare issues and needs.
Her hospital-nursing career included acute psychiatric inpatient nurse manager roles, substance abuse program manager, and orthopedic/medical/surgical experience. In addition Ann Marie has several years experience working with Ontario County providing services for the elderly and mentally ill in the community.
Updated: June 11, 2009