Rachel Rhodes, LMSW-C, MPA, CPC

Consultant

Health Management Associates

Lansing, MI

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Rachel Rhodes is a dedicated healthcare professional with experience working in substance use prevention and outpatient therapy. Leveraging her social work background, she is an empathetic leader, a skilled relationship builder and an adaptable administrator.

Before joining Health Management Associates, Rachel was Oakland Community Health Network’s regional substance use disorder prevention coordinator. In this role, she was responsible for needs assessment, program management, grant proposal monitoring, and budget development and administration. She helped reduce the county’s retailer violation rate for selling tobacco products to minors to below 20 percent and received the 2023 Preventionist of the Year Award from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

Rachel is a licensed master social worker and has over five years of clinical experience. Working as the assistant clinical services supervisor for Hegira Health, Inc., Rachel supervised clinicians and case managers as well as social workers obtaining their licenses. As an assessment and referral clinician, she maintained a 100 percent placement success rate for patients she assessed.

Rachel has also worked as a substance use prevention specialist, outpatient therapist and direct care counselor. She is also an at large board member for The College for Behavioral Health Leadership, where she is collaborating on the emerging leaders project.

Rachel earned a Master of Public Administration, a Master of Social Work, and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Grand Valley State University. In addition to her social worker licensure, she is a certified prevention consultant.

Outside of work, she dedicates her time to her rambunctious son and acting in plays locally.