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F1: TEAM and Other CMS Innovation Models
Thursday, June 18, 2026 | 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Target Audience: Affordable Senior Housing; Assisted Living/Personal Care; Finance; Marketing
As value-based care continues to evolve, providers across the aging services continuum must understand emerging federal innovation models and their potential impact. This session will provide an overview of the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) and other CMS Innovation Center models, highlighting key goals, timelines, and implications for post-acute and long-term care providers. Participants will gain insight into how these models aim to improve care coordination, quality, and cost efficiency, and what organizations should be considering as the healthcare landscape continues to shift.
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Speaker Information
Vice President, Advanced Analytics DataGen
Alyssa Dahl is a healthcare industry leader in modeling and interpreting current key payment and policy issues impacting value-based revenue. In this role, Alyssa supports healthcare providers across the nation to maximize their potential for success in alternative payment arrangements and population health initiatives. She brings clients new insights thanks to her background in epidemiology and expertise in Medicare payment policy and quality measurement techniques. Alyssa leads a team of analysts, programmers, and business intelligence developers, deploying interactive data evaluation platforms and designing custom analytic solutions.
Vice President of Health Services, Springpoint Senior Living
Odessa Sadsad, RN, BSN, CDP, MHA serves as Vice President of Health Services at Springpoint, where she provides administrative oversight for eight continuing care retirement communities and an integrated healthcare practice serving more than 2,000 residents across assisted living, skilled nursing, and health service lines. With more than 20 years of progressive leadership experience in post-acute and long-term care, she brings extensive expertise in clinical operations, regulatory compliance, quality improvement, and data-driven performance management.
Throughout her career, Ms. Sadsad has led multidisciplinary teams in strengthening Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) initiatives, improving clinical outcomes, and aligning operational strategy with federal and state regulatory standards. Her background includes executive nursing leadership, infection prevention oversight, benchmarking and quality measure analysis, and system-wide policy development across diverse care settings.
A collaborative and forward-thinking healthcare executive, Ms. Sadsad is passionate about advancing value-based care models and fostering accountability across the care continuum. In this presentation, she will share practical strategies for implementing the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM), focusing on episode management, cross-setting coordination, and sustainable quality outcomes within continuing care and skilled nursing environments.
Clinical Case Manager, Village Point Rehabilitation & Healthcare
With over two decades of experience in post-acute and long-term care, Saswati Chakraborty currently serves as Clinical Case Manager at Village Point Rehabilitation & Healthcare, a Springpoint Senior Living CCRC (New Jersey), where her role centers on Clinical Case Management and care continuum coordination. She functions as a clinical liaison between acute care hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and post-acute providers—facilitating safe transitions, discharge planning, interdisciplinary communication, and risk-stratified follow-up. Her work focuses on reducing rehospitalizations, strengthening hospital partnerships, and ensuring continuity of care through coordinated clinical oversight, patient engagement, and family education.
She has been working on value-based payment transformation, including the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAMS) and other CMS Innovation Center initiatives. She has experience supporting Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) efforts and leading transition-of-care strategies incorporating EMR integration, telemonitoring, cardiac management, palliative pathways, and structured post-discharge follow-up. She facilitates in-home medical services and supportive care, including wound care, physical therapy, mobile radiology, behavioral health, and transitional physician services to ensure sustained medical management for the homebound geriatric population. Her focus is on improving access to care, supporting aging in place, and minimizing avoidable rehospitalizations.
Saswati Chakraborty brings a multidisciplinary foundation in psychology, business administration, and clinical social work to post-acute and geriatric care. She holds a PhD and MBA and is a Certified Social Worker and Certified Dementia Practitioner through the National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners, with additional neuroscience training from the Wicking Dementia Research & Education Centre and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton. She serves on the Geriatric Advisory Council and is a Board Member of the Alzheimer’s Association.”
Post-Acute Care Manager, Sub-Acute and Therapy Services – Penn Medicine Princeton Health
Dwight Benedict V. Faustino is a healthcare executive, clinician, and post-acute care strategist with over 20 years of experience leading clinical operations, care coordination, and value-based care initiatives across the continuum. He currently serves within Sub-Acute Therapy Services as a Post-Acute Case Manager (PACM) at Penn Medicine Princeton Health, where he supports the development and alignment of high-performing post-acute networks and transitional care strategies. Dwight is a key contributor to the operationalization of CMS TEAM initiatives in Princeton, with a focus on post-acute oversight structures, clinical program development, and Transitional Care Management (TCM/TOC). His work strengthens alignment across acute care and post-acute settings including skilled nursing facilities (SNF); subacute; long-term care (LTC); Life Plan Community( CCRCs), advanced home health, and community-based providers. He is dedicated to improving patient outcomes, reducing readmissions, and advancing value-based performance across care settings. In addition to his primary role, Dwight provides independent advisory support to multi-state post-acute providers and senior care organizations, focusing on care coordination, operational strategy, and value-based care readiness. His advisory assistance emphasizes practical, scalable improvements aligned with evolving regulatory models and the integration of technology to enhance clinical and operational performance.
He previously served as Chief Information Officer and Chief Rehabilitation Officer for CareOne, where he led enterprise-wide innovation and clinical transformation across a multi-state network. Under his leadership, organizations earned multiple national recognitions, including McKnight Tech Awards for innovation in Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) through medication management, rehabilitation robotics, telepresence, and point-of-care technologies. He has also held executive leadership roles as Chief Operating Officer, Vice President of Operations and Regional Director consistently driving clinical excellence, regulatory compliance, and operational performance.
Dwight began his career as a physical therapist and remains deeply committed to patient-centered care, geriatric rehabilitation, and advancing practical, scalable solutions that connect care while leveraging technology and innovations to improve clinical outcomes.

