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Samantha Holcombe, MPH

Senior Director, Practice Improvement
National Council for Mental Wellbeing
Washington, District of Columbia

Ms. Holcombe has over 10 years of experience designing and implementing healthcare programs serving complex and high-needs populations. As Senior Director, Practice Improvement at the National Council, she oversees the National Council’s portfolio of healthcare transformation and financing programs to drive clinical change and improve health outcomes. This includes leading training and technical assistance to support Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) in successful implementation, serving as Project Director for the SAMHSA-funded CCBHC-Expansion Grantee National Training and Technical Assistance Center and supporting the National Council’s CCBHC Success Center. She provides coaching, technical assistance, and training to state agencies, health systems, and behavioral healthcare organizations on clinical, quality improvement, and business models that support success in care integration and alternative payment models. Previously, she led a four-year, $29 million CMS-funded grant focused on creating new and replicable models of care to improve clinical outcomes for people with serious mental illness and build capacity of providers to transition to value-based payment arrangements. She has extensive experience in leading development and oversight of project monitoring, data analysis and evaluation plans, including cost savings methodologies. Ms. Holcombe holds a Master’s in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park.

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