Why We Exist

Our Mission

With a focus on delivery excellence and social impact, Edera partners with clients to ideate, build, implement, and sustain human-centric business solutions.

Our Purpose

Edera exists to help organizations build better businesses and effect positive change in society.

What it Means to Be a Low Profit LLC

Edera is mission-driven and operates with a purpose-before-profit mindset. Profits beyond the sustainability goals of our organizations are reinvested into our communities (e.g., community improvement initiatives) and/or our clients (e.g., indirect rate reinvestment or alignment).

The Edera Team

At the wheel

Kevin Carr, MD
Chief Executive Officer

As CEO of Edera and its affiliate, NCC, Kevin has more than 20 years of experience in patient care and health care consulting. Under his leadership, Edera develops and executes strategies that improve health care practices and processes for both patients and providers. His experience includes serving on the Yale School of Medicine faculty and forming a multistakeholder collaborative to implement a charity care network with centralized care management services for uninsured patients.

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Kevin Carr, MD

Chief Executive Officer

Managing Directors

Jason LaSalle, MBA, PMP
Managing Director

As Managing Director of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships, Jason is responsible for creating and executing a diverse set of growth strategies across Edera and its affiliated services groups. He also identifies and collaborates with industry experts to help deliver critical solutions to our nation’s health care providers. With more than 20 years of health care-related experience, Jason oversees both the clinical and revenue cycle service offerings at Edera and is a champion of programs that focus on complex problems, equal opportunity innovation, and education.

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Jason LaSalle

Managing Director
Felishia Perry, MHA-IF, BSN, RN-BC, CCMP, PROSCI®
Managing Director

Felishia is a master’s-prepared and board-certified nurse clinical informatics specialist with expertise in clinical and technical electronic health record (EHR) solution implementations. Her experience includes project management for large, complex environments throughout all system development lifecycle phases. She has extensive experience in process mapping, as well as using data analytics and tools to develop strategies to solve complex health care challenges.

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Felishia Perry

Managing Director
Jolette van Vuuren, PMP
Managing Director

Jolette has more than 20 years of experience providing creative design solutions for both corporate clients and government agencies. She serves as a creative resource for eLearning, training, innovation, and communication programs in need of attractive, intuitive illustration and design. She is experienced in creating supporting artwork for many types of programs and is an expert at transforming complex data and business content into digestible, eye-catching infographics.

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Jolette van Vuuren

Managing Director

Team Leads

Mark Cads, OCS, OCA, PMP
Technology Director

Mark has more than 16 years of experience as a technology delivery lead, program manager, and technical architect of large-scale system implementations across multiple industries in the United States, Asia, and Europe. He is an expert at creating and delivering optimized solutions to complex client challenges and is an Oracle-Certified Implementation Specialist on WebLogic, Essbase, Hyperion Planning and Budgeting, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) solutions.

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Mark Cads

Technology Director
Patrick OKeefe
Patrick O'Keefe, CSM, PMP
Deputy Director of Management Consulting

Patrick is the Deputy Director of Edera’s Management Consulting Practice. His experience includes community-based healthcare, long-term care, financial management, internal controls, and OMB Circular A-123. He has a broad understanding of home and community-based services and federal regulations, policies, and processes. His experience includes management of national program implementation projects, development of policies and procedures in all areas of self-directed home care programs, business and financial process improvement, and data analysis.

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Patrick O’Keefe

Deputy Director of Management Consulting