Our Founder

Maura Carley, Founder and President, has an extensive background in healthcare management. She founded Healthcare Navigation, LLC, a patient advocacy firm, in 1999 after years of senior management experience in hospital, HMO, and physician practice management organizations.

Before founding Healthcare Navigation, Ms. Carley served as the Vice President of Operations for the Northeast Region of PhyMatrix, a physician practice management company. She was responsible for managing and providing services to over 200 physicians in 45 offices throughout the New York metropolitan area.

Prior to joining PhyMatrix, Ms. Carley was the Regional Director of Kaiser Permanente’s New York Health Plan and served as Kaiser’s senior executive in the New York and Fairfield County areas. Ms. Carley began her career in hospital administration as an Assistant Administrator at Yale-New Haven Hospital and later, Vice President, Administration, at Stamford Hospital.
Ms. Carley received her undergraduate degree from the University of San Francisco and her Master’s in Public Health from Yale University. She earned her fellowship in the American College of Healthcare Executives in 1989 and completed the Kaiser Permanente Executive Program in conjunction with Stanford University Business School in 1992. She is also a certified health insurance consultant.

Ms. Carley has served on numerous non-profit boards of directors. She is a member of the New York Women’s Forum, is President Emeritus of the Connecticut Women’s Forum and a past member of the International Women’s Forum Board. She also serves as Vice Chairman of the Darien Social Services Commission. Early in her career, she was recognized by the American Hospital Association as one of the nation’s fifty outstanding young health professionals and featured in Hospitals Magazine. She was later featured in Modern Healthcare as one of the nation’s Up and Coming Healthcare Professionals.

Ms. Carley has extensive public speaking experience including both television and radio appearances.

Healthcare Navigation Staff

The staff at Healthcare Navigation is a group of highly qualified professionals with years of healthcare experience. They have held various positions at the nation’s leading insurance companies, hospitals and other provider organizations.