Androscoggin Home Healthcare adds to leadership team

LEWISTON — Androscoggin Home Healthcare + Hospice recently named a new director to its senior leadership team, Frederick Duah, Ph.D.
Duah joins Androscoggin as the director of strategic business innovation. In his new role, Duah will work with referral sources and payers to design value-added healthcare programs and reimbursement models that will build and strengthen relationships throughout Maine, and beyond.

Duah was recently with Boston Medical Center Healthnet Plan as part of its business performance team, leading a team that increased the center’s membership to become the second largest insurance exchange product in the Massachusetts market. Duah also was strategic planning manager at Network Health and was the Senior Health System Analyst for the Division of Health Care Finance and Policy, a team that evaluates and reports on the state’s healthcare delivery system to the Office of the Governor, in Massachusetts.
He holds a bachelor of science degree in Political Science and English Literature, and M.A. in International Development from the University of Denver, and a Ph.D. in Law and Public Policy from Northeastern University, where he taught Economics. In addition, he attended the Columbia Business School and Massachusetts’s Institute of Technology earning certifications in Corporate Finance and Supply Chain Management.
“Dr. Duah will be an incredible asset to Androscoggin as our healthcare delivery system in Maine and the United States is changing at an unprecedented rate” said President and CEO Ken Albert.” We are pleased that he has joined our dynamic senior team in this newly created position that will strengthen our capacity to collaborate with other health care providers to advance value-added programs that will drive positive change for our patients and providers.”
Androscoggin Home Healthcare and Hospice is the largest non-profit independent home health and hospice organization in the state. For more information, visit www.androcoggin.org or call the Marketing and Development Office at 207-777-7740 ext. 1405.