Moira Muir, LMHC
Principal
Health Management Associates
Boston, MA
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(617) 720-7800
Moira Muir is a health policy leader with more than 35 years of experience in public, private, and non-profit behavioral healthcare organizations, including program administration, managed care, direct patient care and population health management.
Moira is a licensed mental health counselor with extensive clinical experience in program development, crisis services and system design, and evidence-based practice for individuals with serious mental illness. Her perspective is rooted in clinical, operational, and strategic expertise that comes from having worked in a variety of clinical settings. She is also an experienced collaborator with state agencies and stakeholders, bringing deep subject matter expertise in crisis intervention service delivery; best practices, including Section 9813 compliant community-based mobile crisis services; program design; management; collaboration with system partners; and implementation.
Moira has supported states, communities, providers, and payers in developing comprehensive crisis systems of care, including implementation strategies with system partners across the continuum of crisis care—988, crisis lines, community-based mobile response, crisis stabilization and post crisis care. Moira brings expertise in culturally and community-relevant behavioral health policies that reduce reliance on emergency department and law enforcement involvement including the development of quality metrics to advance operational and clinical outcomes.
Before joining Health Management Associates, Moira served as vice president of network management at Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership, an organization that manages behavioral healthcare for more than 500,000 Medicaid members. She directed the development and implementation of network quality, access, rate and provider performance standards, including performance-based incentives and policies and procedures.
In that role, she oversaw the strategic planning and delivery of statewide crisis services to ensure high quality, culturally competent, clinically, and cost-effective, integrated community-based behavioral health crisis assessment, intervention, and stabilization services offering viable alternatives to hospital emergency departments. In collaboration with Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (DMH) medical leadership, Moira convened key stakeholders including providers, psychiatric and acute care hospitals, and emergency departments to improve access to and flow through the acute care system.
Moira is a licensed mental health counselor. She earned her master’s degree in counseling psychology from Northeastern University and her bachelor’s degree in psychology from University of California, Los Angeles.