About Us

Timothy P. McNeill, RN, MPH

CEO

Freedmen's Health Consulting

Timothy P. McNeill is the founder of Freedmen’s Health Consulting, a Washington, DC healthcare consulting firm specializing in implementation of innovative models of care. Mr. McNeill also co-founded Freedmen’s Medicine, a home-based primary care and complex case management company serving dual eligible and Medicaid beneficiaries in the DC Metropolitan area, primarily in public housing and HUD-supported housing sites. Freedmen’s Medicine is one of the largest independent home-based primary care practices and nurse managed clinics serving persons in Ward 7, Ward 8 of the District of Columbia, Prince George’s County, and Baltimore City. Freedmen’s Health Consulting and Freedmen’s Medicine are both Veteran Owned Businesses.

Nationally, Mr. McNeill serves as the co-chair of the Partnership to Align Social Care. The Partnership to Align Social Care is a multi-sectoral group of health plans, health systems, community-based organizations and Government liaisons that work together to identify and address priority issues that are essential to a fully aligned health and social care system that incorporates the vital voice of the community.

Mr. McNeill has started or expanded multiple sustainable health programs including two Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) ACOs, two ACO REACH entities, supported the implementation of an IPA made up of FQHCs and independent physicians, established a network of community-based free clinics, managed the operations of a network of Federally Qualified Health Centers, and established multiple regional networks to deliver Long-Term Services and Support — contracting with MCOs, in support of State Medicaid Waiver implementation.

Mr. McNeill is a Registered Nurse with a bachelor’s degree from Howard University and a Master of Public Health from Eastern Virginia Medical School. Mr. McNeill is also a retired U.S. Navy Nurse Corps Officer.

Matt Longjohn, MD, MPH

CEO

Epiphany Consulting

Dr. Longjohn is a nationally recognized leader in public health and health systems innovation. Throughout most of the last 25 years he has served in non-profit executive roles, leading organizations large and small to successfully integrate community organizations and resources into equitable, effective, and sustained population health endeavors. His leadership has produced historic community health successes and he was identified by the Obama Administration as one of the top 100 health innovators in the country. Since running for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018, Longjohn has launched a small consulting business and been more focused on teaching health system science. Epiphany, his consulting company, serves local, state, and national level non-profit organizations as well as government agencies. He currently co-directs the Engagement and Discovery course for ~170 medical students as a faculty member at the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine.

Immediately prior to running for office, Dr. Longjohn was the National Health Officer and Vice President for Community Integrated Health at YMCA of the USA (Y-USA). During his time at the Y, Longjohn directed ~$100M in grants and contracts, and led a team of ~ 40 experts and technical advisors charged with development and scaling of evidence-based health interventions throughout the Y’s network of nearly 900 nonprofit associations and 10,000+ program sites. One of his historic achievements at the Y was the completion of a successful $12M Health Care Innovation Award from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. This 4-year project tested the YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention Program as a health care innovation serving nearly 4,000 Medicare enrollees in 17 cities and 8 states. The program became the first community-led prevention program in U.S. history to be certified as a cost-saving intervention for Medicare. As a result, 23 million people in the U.S. now have insurance coverage for diabetes prevention. Other programs and practices brought to national scale by Dr. Longjohn included evidence-based programs for cancer survivorship, arthritis self-management, falls prevention, blood pressure control, and childhood obesity. He also played a central role in establishing a partnership between the Y and first lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign, which resulted in healthy eating and physical activity standards aimed at improving the health of 9 million children in the Y’s early childhood and out-of-school time programs.

Earlier, Dr. Longjohn was a Fellow at the Altarum Institute, conducting health systems and health policy research in 9 states. In past consulting roles he facilitated the establishment of a Chief Health Officer position within the Chicago Public School system, and coalitions like “Health Kids Healthy Michigan”. Longjohn has served on numerous Boards and National Advisory Committees, and as the national Co-Chair for the “Campaign for Action” to promote workforce development in nursing across the US. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors for the Committee to Protect HealthCare (CTP) and CTP’s Education Fund. From 2001-2017, Dr. Longjohn was on faculty at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in the Departments of Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics, where he served as the founding Executive Director of the Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children (CLOCC) and the Assistant Medical Director of the HELP Network. HELP was one of the 1st national efforts to reduce gun violence by organizing physicians to deploy public health approaches. He received his bachelor’s degree in biology from Kalamazoo College and his M.D. and MPH from Tulane University.