Nancy Skinner

Nancy has, for the past 30 years, served as a case manager, director of case management, and international case management educator. In her current role as principal consultant for Riverside HealthCare Consulting, she advances programs that promote excellence in care coordination and other transitional care strategies. She has presented more than 400 on-site programs and webinars within the past 10 years that offer a primary focus on supporting and enhancing the professional practice of healthcare case management and care coordination. She is the primary author of A Case Manager’s Study Guide: Preparing for Certification and has published more than 25 articles in professional journals in the past 10 years.

In 2002, she was named the Case Management Society of America (CMSA) National Case Manager of the Year, and in 2008, she received CMSA’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She is also recognized as being the only national president of CMSA to be elected to two terms of office, accepting that role in 1997–1998 and again from 2012 to 2014. Nancy was recently recognized as a Case Management Fellow (FCM). As one of the inaugural recipients of this designation, she has been identified as achieving a high level of demonstrated proficiency in the professional practice of case management, showing a commitment to knowledge through continuing education and publication and acknowledging her consistent contributions to the growth of that professional practice.

Nancy has served as a member of both the Stakeholders Advisory Group for Project ACHIEVE and the Steering Committee for the Lambert Center for the Study of Medicinal Cannabis and Hemp. She also served as a member of the Public Policy Committee for the American Case Management Society and as a Member At Large for the Kentucky/Tennessee Chapter of the American Case Management Society. Nancy is a member of the American Cannabis Nurses Association and is an invited member of ACNA’s National Conference Committee. She also recently retired as primary faculty for the University of Southern Indiana Case Management Certificate Course, a role she maintained for more than 13 years.