Maribel Health

United States - Santa Monica, California

• 16/03/2023
• Series A
• $25,000,000

Health systems face unprecedented challenges with capacity, workforce, and reimbursement. We work for health systems to design, build, and operate advanced clinical care models in the home and community to expand total capacity and improve access​.

In late 2021, Ronald Paulus, MD, a health system CEO, and Adam Groff, MD, a home and community services entrepreneur and hospital medicine physician, came together to enable health systems to respond to inevitable demographic shifts and workforce constraints driving care out of hospitals and into the home. Together, they founded Maribel Health to design, engineer, and operate the capabilities – including technology, clinical models, and operational management services – in order to enable the home and community to be increasingly central to both patients’ and health systems’ success.

Maribel focuses on solutions that augment the home-based workforce to deliver more advanced clinical services. As a technology-enabled operating partner of health systems, Maribel enhances capabilities and integration of existing home and community organizations to expand total health system capacity. Examples of work underway include building out hospital-at-home logistics and clinical operations, community-based palliative care, mobile integrated health / community paramedicine, and longitudinal complex chronic care with our partners.

Maribel Health is named in honor of Maribel Sanchez Souther who died in 2016 at age 41 after a two-and-a-half-year battle with triple-negative breast cancer. She lived an amazing life as a wife, mother of three, friend, Ivy League coach, and All-American runner. During her treatment, Maribel had multiple hospital admissions that took her away from her young family. Often, these issues could have been addressed more effectively in the home with the right support and technology. Maribel Health exists so that patients like Maribel receive the care they deserve where they need it most - in their home.

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Ronald PaulusFounder

United States - Santa Monica, California

Ronald A. Paulus, MD, is President and CEO of Maribel Health, a technology-enabled operating partner enabling advanced care in the home for health systems. Maribel designs, builds, and operates advanced clinical care models in the home and community to expand total health system capacity and improve patient access and outcomes.

He is also an Executive in Residence at General Catalyst and the immediate past President and CEO of Mission Health (www.Mission-Health.org), a $1.9 billion integrated health system serving all of western North Carolina. Mission Health includes 6 hospitals, and insurance company (Healthy State), a post-acute company (CarePartners) and nearly 1,000 employed providers.

Mission Health is the only health system ever designated as one of the nation’s Top 15 Health Systems in six of seven years by IBM/Watson Health (2012-2015; 2017-2018) . Mission was acquired by HCA Healthcare in February, 2019.

Before joining Mission Health System, Dr. Paulus was Executive Vice President, Clinical Operations and Chief Innovation Officer at Geisinger Health System (www.Geisinger.org), where he managed Geisinger’s hospitals and its more than 800 physician group practice. At Geisinger, he also was responsible for ensuring system-wide innovation.

Prior to joining Geisinger, Dr. Paulus was co-founder, President and later CEO of CareScience, Inc. (previously NASDAQ: CARE), now part of Premier healthcare informatics (https://www.premierinc.com/transforming-healthcare/healthcare-performance-improvement/) with the software in use in nearly 1,000 hospitals and health systems nationwide. CareScience offered a web-based analytics platform to support health systems’ quality and efficiency improvement work.

Dr. Paulus received his MD degree from The School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and his MBA, concentration in healthcare management, and BS in Economics from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has published and speaks regularly on the topics of health care quality and efficiency, using analytics to transform care delivery, innovation, physician leadership, and new models of care. In 2014, Dr. Paulus was voted one of Modern Healthcare’s Top 50 Most Influential Physician Executives and Leaders, and was among the Top 20 on that list.

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