Moving Care Upstream: Putting Advanced Primary Care at the Center of Employee Health
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Employers are rethinking the role they play in employee health. Rather than relying solely on the traditional healthcare system or adding more disconnected solutions, organizations are moving care upstream by putting advanced primary care at the center of an integrated benefits strategy. Join leaders from Sheetz and Marathon Health to explore how Sheetz has evolved from a single onsite clinic into a connected model that brings together primary care, mental health, lifestyle management, and more—both in-person and virtually—creating a more seamless experience for employees and building trusted relationships with care teams.
Learn how this long-term approach has strengthened employee engagement, supported chronic disease management, controlled healthcare costs, and equipped Sheetz’s benefits leaders with the outcomes needed to demonstrate value and earn continued investment from leadership.
Moderator
Janaera J. Gastón, MPA - Senior Vice President, Programs and Conferences
Janaera Gastón provides oversight for content, design and execution of NEBGH’s educational programs and managing related strategic partnerships.
Prior to joining NEBGH, Janaera worked for two New York City public hospitals as the special assistant to the deputy chief financial officer at Coler-Goldwater Memorial Hospital and as a human resources manager at Kings County Hospital Center.
Janaera has represented NEBGH on advisory boards and guest lectured at local colleges presenting the employers’ role in health care. She has served on several local not-for-profit boards.
She received her B.A. from Syracuse University and her M.P.A. from the City University of New York, Baruch College of Public Affairs.
Speakers
Nirav Vakharia, MD
Nirav Vakharia, MD, serves as Chief Operating Officer and is responsible for the clinical strategy development and management of Marathon Health’s population health model of care. In his role, he oversees both operations and clinical leadership. Previously, he served as Marathon's Chief Health Officer. In addition to being a practicing primary care physician, he brings a wealth of experience in value-based care, quality and safety improvement, practice management, and innovative clinical program design. Prior to his time at Marathon, he served as the Chief Medical Officer at Panoramic Health, the nation’s largest value-based provider for kidney and metabolic disease patients. Before that, he served as the General Manager of US Clinical Operations at eMed (formerly Babylon), which brought value-based primary care and behavioral health to Medicaid populations across the US.
Nirav is the former President of the Cleveland Clinic’s Accountable Care Organization, where he led the health system’s development of its population health strategy to improve the clinical and financial outcomes for over 400,000 at-risk lives.
He received his MD from Harvard Medical School, and completed training in internal medicine and a chief residency at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. Before entering medicine, he worked as a middle school math and science teacher in Washington, DC.