Teresa Craig, Chief Executive Officer
Teresa R. Craig, CPA, is the chief executive officer of Suncoast Solutions. Teresa has more than 25 years of experience consulting with and managing technology, health care and human service organizations. She has traveled throughout the country helping hospices and homecare organizations achieve good accounting, reporting and systems. A member of the AICPA, KSCPA, HIMSS, TEC and several NHPCO and NAHC committees, Teresa has taught at two universities and presented numerous workshops for NHPCO, NAHC and state organizations.   She is committed to helping hospice programs achieve effective systems to support excellent care for patients and their families.

Sue Farrington, Vice President of Client Resources
Sue Farrington holds an MBA from Nova University, as well as degrees in accounting and interdisciplinary social sciences. She has been involved in home-based health care operations since 1974 and has been developing or implementing software since 1983. Prior to joining Suncoast Solutions, she was CFO of a large home care and hospice organization. While working with a division of an integrated health care delivery system, she led a re-engineering team through a design and implementation process that resulted in a 21% improvement to the bottom line. Sue believes that providing quality patient care is the core value to lead organizations to financial success.

Belle Gruber, Vice President of Implementation, Training and Consulting
Belle Gruber has been with Suncoast Solutions since April 2000. Belle came from a case management software company to oversee implementation of Solutions.  She received her BSN from the University of San Francisco and her MBA from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She has worked in a variety of clinical settings and as nurse manager for more than 20 years and has been involved in software training since 1991.

Alfred Kausel, Vice President of Development
Alfred Kausel is responsible for the development and architecture of the Solutions Enterprise Application, a position that he has performed for more than eight years. As a veteran of application software development, he had been architecting, designing and managing projects since 1973. Prior to joining Suncoast Solutions, he was vice president of development for a company with a world-wide network of resellers. The product was multi-lingual with localized rules by country and is still in use by many corporations. He holds a B.Sc. from Concordia University.

Leonard Nagel, Vice President of Support Services
Leonard Nagel has a master’s degree in management information systems and a BS in economics. His certifications include: MCSE, MCT, LCP, HDA, HDM, and A+, coupled with extensive experience in UNIX, Windows and a variety of databases. Leonard is a member of HIMMS and MSHUG and has been with Suncoast Solutions since its beginning. Leonard believes that it matters that we as a company and individually play a key role in the lives of so many. He has been supporting hospice organizations with their information system needs since 1994. Because of his education and his beliefs, Leonard is uniquely qualified for his role as vice president of support for Suncoast Solutions.

Stephen West-Fisher, Vice President of Quality
Stephen West-Fisher completed his undergraduate work at the University of South Florida, and has a master’s degree in information systems from the West Virginia University College of Graduate Studies. Steve’s healthcare data experience spans a number of arenas, from data director of a multi-state peer review organization (PRO), to leading medical review software development projects for Medicaid agencies, Medicare, and the Veterans Administration. Prior to joining Solutions, Stephen was in charge of developing an enterprise system for rehabilitation facilities to support their move to a prospective payment system (PPS).