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Ms. Ripin is a graduate of Stanford University and the Harvard School of Public
Health. She has been an independent community health center consultant since 2000,
and is the owner of Shoreline Health Solutions.
Prior to her consulting work, Ms. Ripin spent three years in leadership at a
community health center. In this role, she coordinated all grant activities,
prepared grant applications, facilitated the Joint Commission accreditation
process, coordinated HIV and wellness programs, managed the quality improvement
program, and served as team leader for the HRSA Diabetes Collaborative program.
Ms. Ripin also previously worked for a Medicaid Managed Care organization in
Massachusetts, providing services to their membership of over 70 community health
centers. In this role, she was the coordinator for their domestic violence screening
and outreach program, as well as their HIV counseling and testing programs.
As a consultant, she has provided direct technical assistance to community
health centers and primary care associations throughout the country. This
includes strategic/business planning; grant writing; grant application reviews;
FQHC compliance and preparation assistance; quality improvement program
design/implementation, including peer review, incident management, and sentinel
event response; Joint Commission accreditation preparation; development of
policy and procedure manuals; and staff/Board training activities
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Ms. Gwisc has a Masters in Public Health from the University of Connecticut, where she
was awarded the Graduate Program Committee Fellowship to conduct a web-based public health research
study. Prior to her community health center work, Ms. Gwisc worked for a statewide community health
agency and at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, where she obtained large grant funding awards
from the Allstate Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Ms. Gwisc has been working with community health centers through Shoreline since 2002.
Throughout her tenure with Shoreline, Ms. Gwisc has worked with health centers throughout the
ountry to improve access to health care for under-served populations. She is an experienced grant
writer, with extensive knowledge of FQHC requirements, FQHC compliance preparation, and obtaining 330 funding.
Ms. Gwisc also has in depth expertise with conducting data collection and analysis to support community needs
assessments, including use of the UDS Mapper system.
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