About

About HealthCAWS

Combining Accountability With Support™

HealthCAWS was founded to give healthcare leaders a partner who carries both halves of that promise — someone who tells them the truth about where they stand, and stays close enough to help them act on it.

Why We Exist

Healthcare doesn’t reward guesswork.

Healthcare CEOs are asked to move fast on positioning, partnerships, and deals, in a market where the cost of being wrong is measured in patient outcomes as much as dollars. Most advisory relationships stop at the recommendation. HealthCAWS stays on as an ongoing partner, and for clients who want it, the Organizational Readiness Platform is available as an optional add-on — an always-on way to track the plan instead of letting it go stale.

Leadership

Rose Maljanian

Founder, Chairman & CEO, HealthCAWS Inc.

Rose is an accomplished senior executive with Board Chair and P&L experience driving innovation, organizational change, and results for over 30 years across population health management, managed care, delivery systems, and investment firms. She brings decades of industry knowledge and a vast network of companies and individuals, and a track record of moving teams through strategic, operational, and design challenges alike.

She is currently Managing Director at WaveEdge Capital, focused on healthcare investment banking transactions and financing, and Operating Partner at Pharos Capital Group, focused on chronic care management and prevention, behavioral health, senior health, home care, and social care needs. She serves as Board Chairman and Chairman Emeritus of Population Health Alliance, following a strategic and financial turnaround, and sits on several private-company advisory boards.

Select Accomplishments

Hartford Healthcare

Founded and led the Institute for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, developing programs including diabetes management and CT’s first certified stroke center, with strategic and P&L responsibility while raising 85% of funding from external sources.

Humana

As VP, Clinical Interventions Innovation Center, grew care management programs by over 50%, cut nursing turnover by 50%, completed ISO 9001 certification for two departments, and designed the company’s first integrated outcomes reporting system.

Magellan Health Services

Held P&L responsibility for specialty product; as SVP Product Innovation, led medical-behavioral integration initiatives worth tens to hundreds of millions in revenue, and served on the M&A due diligence team for product and market positioning.

Rose holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Saint Joseph College and is Critical Care certified, and an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her work has resulted in numerous leadership and grant awards and publications.

How We Show Up

A few things we hold ourselves to.

Accountability Built In

Recommendations come with a way to measure whether they worked.

Evidence Over Opinion

Every position is grounded in your data and your market, not a template.

Right-Sized for the Decision

Engagements scope to the decision in front of you, not a fixed package.

Support That Doesn’t Disappear

Ongoing Advisory and optional Platform keeps the work visible for optimal success.

Bring your next decision into focus.