Associate Members

Ryan Werling
SVP, Sales and Marketing

Services: Financial services, bill reconciliation, and employee benefits. AblePay bridges the gap between medical providers and the communities they serve. We are simply another tool to make things easier for you in completing the patient cycle. Using our proprietary mix of savings, flexibility, advocacy, and convenience, AblePay Health takes an innovative, highly effective, yet surprisingly simple approach to assisting with the patient’s responsibility after insurance. Medical providers can expect prompt payment in 14 days, with absolutely no recourse, AblePay Health assumes all the financial risk for our members, instant implementation, no patient denied, AblePay decreases your costs allowing for better staff utilization, and we keep all your current processes and vendors. There are no changes to your current internal processes.

Kevin Magstadt

Director, Business Development

Services: Construction.

Darin Rohrich
Sales Executive

Services: BEK Communication’s line of West-Com Nurse Call Systems and Systems Technologies Wireless Nurse Call Systems offer competitive financing, industry-leading customer service, 24/7 emergency service, and seamless integration into your facility to meet all of your communications needs.  Whether you are looking for an efficient way for staff to receive and respond to patient or resident calls, for basic tone visual systems, or integrated hardwired or wireless nurse call solutions, BEK has the solution.

Brett Donat, AIA
NCARB, LEED AP

Phil Stahl, AIA
NCARB, LEED AP

Services: EAPC Architects Engineers is an award-winning Architecture and Engineering firm with an emphasis in designing innovative healthcare facilities. It is our mission to create unique design solutions that promote human-centered care with the efficiency and flexibility to grow and adapt to our clients’ future healthcare delivery needs. Working in partnership with your healthcare organization, we combine innovative thinking and attention to the smallest details with consistent, forward-looking, evidence-based design. 

Brad DeJong
Partner

Services: Eide Bailly is a CPA and business advisory firm with more than 40 offices across the nation.  By embracing change and innovation, Eide Bailly has grown along with our clients to become one of the top 25 accounting firms in the United States.  We’re passionate about helping clients thrive.  Talented, down-to-earth people work at our firm, and we are inspired to deliver outstanding expertise and care. Our healthcare team has more than 250 professionals dedicated to the industry. We pride ourselves on being leaders in the healthcare industry, offering valuable perspectives beyond our core strength of accounting and tax compliance. We’re business advisors who want to help guide the strategy and operations of your organization. Eide Bailly serves the healthcare industry because we genuinely enjoy supporting others, so they succeed.  We bring our clients sustainable solutions that help their organizations improve.  Accounting is about numbers, but our business is about relationships.

Jeremy Cossitt

Director of Construction

Services: A trusted name in the construction and real estate industry, Enclave’s team brings over 100 years of collective experience in building, remodeling, and outfitting healthcare facilities of all kinds. Our proven track record across 150+ projects demonstrates the delivery of cost-effective, client-driven solutions underscored by a steadfast commitment to safety. From pre-construction to post-completion, every aspect of our service starts with your vision and investment and is based on a foundation of transparent communication. It’s how we advance health care from the ground up.

Brent Barnacle
Director Business Development

Services: Specializes in permanent recruitment of physicians and advanced practice providers to hospitals and health systems across the United States.

Todd R. Medd, AIA
Primary Healthcare Studio Director

Services: JLG’s award-winning healthcare design studio focuses on the integrated design of cutting-edge healthcare facilities and campuses in our region. Our well-rounded healthcare practice designs everything from small clinic renovations to some of the largest hospitals in our region. Our services include architecture, interior design, masterplanning, furniture design, facility assessments, project management and community engagement. As recognized leaders in rural healthcare design, our projects begin by listening to our clients and creating efficient spaces that put an emphasis on dignity and a healing environment.

Rex Burgdorfer
Managing Director

Services: Juniper Advisory works exclusively with nonprofit health systems on evaluating growth strategies, partnerships, joint ventures, and other strategic opportunities. Our team has been solely dedicated to this area for 30 years and has worked in 42 states, including North Dakota.  Juniper supports leaders in creating a sustainable path for the future to best serve their mission and their communities.

Scott Staudinger
Director – Business Development

Services: One of the nations’ premier commercial general contractors and construction managers. Our approach is simple. We listen to your goals and priorities and deliver comprehensive construction services to become your trusted business partner. We bring you best-value options and informed decisions from an owner’s perspective. Kraus-Anderson Construction offers a broad spectrum of pre-project planning, pre-construction, construction and post-occupancy expertise. Regardless of the project delivery method, our focus is on providing the best value for the budget. From minor tenant improvements and remodels to major new construction and expansions, our project portfolio represents experience in virtually every area of commercial construction.

Kevin Johnson
Technology Advisor

Services: Marco is a leading technology services company that specializes in business IT services, cloud services, managed services, telecom carrier services, copiers/printers, phone systems, document management and audio/video systems

Kimberly Johnson
Regional VP, Western Region

Services: Managed Care Advisory Group (MCAG) is an expert at identifying and recovering non-traditional high margin revenue for all types of organizations from class action settlements. They have experience and credibility in getting the most for your claim with the least effort on your part. Clients have received hundreds of millions of dollars from settlement funds via their Settlement Recovery Service (SRS). They don’t create class actions, they continually search for class actions that have already settled and have funds available for their clients.

Ryan Goodsen
Regional Operations Manager

Services: Construction.

Tracy Kolb
Partner

Services: Legal services.

Rory Audino
Senior National Account Executive

Services: A leading managed services provider that streamlines the staffing process for hospitals and healthcare systems by serving as the single point of contact for hiring requests.

Stephanie Patsalis
VP of Business Development

Services:

The M1H Integrated Approach:
M1H seamlessly complements conventional Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) endeavors, providing a direct path to healthcare excellence. Their compliant solution empowers providers to make accurate diagnoses from the outset, reducing rework and optimizing patient outcomes across outpatient clinics, emergency departments, and inpatient settings.

Troy Blizzard
Vice President

Joanna Slominski
General Manager

Services: Mortenson is a family-owned business built on strong values and a commitment to making a difference in the communities in which we work. Offering a complete range of construction and development services based on our values of trust, teamwork, service, responsibility, safety, and stewardship, we have built a reputation as a solid and progressive leader in the industry for over 70 years. Since 1976, we have served our North Dakota partners across the state, offering our talents and expertise in a wide range of industries.

Brian Pyle
ICRA Specialist

Services: Healthcare construction infection control risk assessment training.

Brittany Hanson
Executive Director

Services: The ND Professional Health Program is a resource that assists with the identification, intervention, referral, monitoring and recovery of physicians, physician assistants and medical students who may be affected by substance use or mental health disorders.  Our goal is to promote patient safety and care by improving the health, well-being, and effectiveness of health care professionals.  Our mission is to facilitate the rehabilitation of healthcare providers who have a physician or mental health condition that could compromise public safety and to monitor their recovery.

Mark Korte
Director of Business Development

Services: Nor-Son provides construction services from remodels to new construction, either through general contracting or construction management services.

Lyndsay Bertie
Area Sales Manager

Services:

Outset Medical is changing dialysis with the most innovative technology in over 30 years! From the ICU to the living room, we are giving patients their lives back and reducing the cost and the complexity for hospitals and their staff with a single enterprise solution. Game changer!!

Colleen Crist
Vice President of Business Development

Services: Paymerang processes billions in payments annually for clients around the country in diverse sectors including banking, education, healthcare, media, manufacturing, and services. Our payment network spans over 400,000 vendors from coast to coast, with 75% receiving electronic payments over traditional checks.

Shawn Lawson
COO

Richard Bubach
CEO

Services: QHA collaborates with healthcare professionals, organizations, and communities across the state to improve the quality of care provided to the people of ND. QHA works toward this goal through a number of contracts, partnerships, and initiatives to improve the quality of care for the people of ND by successfully balancing the needs of providers, consumers, stakeholds, and payers.

Levi Hentges
Director of Business Development

Services: SEAM is a full-service data destruction company specialized in hard drive shredding, paper shredding, electronics recycling, and IT equipment resale. As the only certified provider in the Dakotas, SEAM guarantees compliance for healthcare organizations to minimize risks and maximize return on their decommissioned devices.

Aaron Alton
CEO/President

John Bretz
Director

Services: SunRx implements seamless contract pharmacy networks that are convenient cost-effective and promotes 340B compliance. Its industry-leading auditing, tracking and financial management features provide hospital administrators with up-to-the-minute information about their facility’s 340B program savings.

Carrie Wilson, AINS
Executive Vice President

Services: Providing insurance and risk management products and services.

ZulaFly
Stephanie Andersen, CEO

Services: ZulaFly is an industry-leading software and enterprise platform solution that collects data from any disparate system and presents this data in a customizable, unified dashboard user interface. ZulaFly provides Workflow, Patient Wander, Locating & Wireless Alerting, Asset Management, Environmental Monitoring, Staff Safety & Locating, Staff Rounding and Mobility throughout a single facility or across multiple campuses in a cloud-hosted environment. Real-time and historical reports are available, along with a robust rules engine that can notify anyone, anywhere of any event. ZulaFly creates numerous advantages in workflow and efficiency for professionals throughout the healthcare continuum.