Rocky Mountain Roundup: Healthcare

Natalie Dalton Lamberton, MBA/MHA, FACHE, was honored as one of South Florida’s Most Powerful and Influential Black Professionals in Business for 2016. She is the recipient of the 2013 American College of Healthcare Executives Distinguished Service Award and the 2009 American College of Healthcare Executives Regent’s Early Careerist Award. Natalie has been a guest lecturer for leadership and management for the Creighton University MBA program, University of Iowa MBA/MHA program, and the University of New Mexico Executive MBA program. She is a Fellow of the College and a faculty member for the American College of Healthcare Executives and teaches at the national annual Congress. In March 2018, the second edition of Natalie’s first book, The Emerging Healthcare Leader: A Field Guide, was released by Health Administration Press. Natalie is currently the Chief Executive Officer for Talas Harbor Healthcare, a healthcare management company with acute, post-acute, and behavioral health facilities. Previously, she was the CEO for New Health Services Pain Treatment Centers, headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Prior to this, she was the COO for Jackson North Medical Center, in Miami, FL. She was the Chief Executive Officer of Regency Hospital of Fort Worth. As CEO, Natalie was commissioned to oversee a 190 million dollar construction project for a new hospital for the Presbyterian Health System in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Preceding this, she was the CEO of the Haxtun Hospital District in Haxtun, Colorado; comprised of a hospital, extended care unit, and three primary care clinics servicing 300 square miles. Early in her career, she served as the Director of Retail Services for the Poudre Valley Health System where she designed, developed, and implemented the corporate strategic plan for this new division in the system. Prior to this, she was the first post-graduate Administrative Fellow for the Poudre Valley Health System. Natalie graduated from the University of New Mexico cum laude with a Bachelor’s Degree in molecular biology and U.S. History. While there, she ran track and field on a full-ride Division I scholarship for the Lobos. She holds a master’s degree in business and health administration and was awarded the distinguished University of Colorado Hoffman-Binger Graduate Presidential Scholarship. A former teacher, she taught science and history at the middle school and high school levels and was a freshman biology instructor at the Community College of Denver.

Lesley Brooks, MD serves as the Chief of Addiction Medicine for SummitStone Health Partners and as the Assistant Medical Director for the North Colorado Health Alliance in northern Colorado. Dr. Brooks, a board-certified family physician, practiced full-scope family medicine including prenatal care, chronic pain, and substance use disorder/addiction in northern Colorado for 12+ years.  Since her transition to SummitStone Health Partners in 2020, she specializes in substance use and mental health.  She has been a buprenorphine prescriber since 2013.

As Senior Project Executive within Banner Health, Kyle supports the team that manages renovations and new construction throughout the Western Division. Kyle is the founder of Ripple Intent, a non-profit group that leads events focused on improving people. Kyle’s teams continue to impact the project delivery experience, implementing collaborative efforts. Kyle focuses on building a strong culture of trust and vulnerability to deliver successful projects. Driven to substantially impact workplace engagement, his group explores new opportunities in delivery means, methods, and relationships. Kyle has a unique perspective that combines experience as a subcontractor, contractor, developer, and institutional owner as well as time within technology firms focused on the construction industry. Combining degrees in Construction Management and Industrial Technology, he channels his passion for delivering the best cultural environment within for his teams to succeed.

As the healthcare market executive for Swinerton in Colorado, Matthew Curtis guides his teams to deliver certainty of outcome for clients and design partners. Swinerton, one of the nation’s largest healthcare builders, provides healthcare clients with project teams who focus on expectations and overall project delivery in a highly engaged, collaborative manner. Through integrated and effective teams, Matt brings a history of successful renovations and new builds for clients such as Kaiser Permanente, Banner Health, UCHealth, and many others. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management from Colorado State University as well as several healthcare-focused certificates.

Jamie Staton is an experienced healthcare interior design professional in a rewarding role as the Interior Program Manager, with Children’s Hospital Colorado. She works along a talented team of interior designers/project managers to provide a healing environment for our patients, families and team members. Jamie has spent the past 12 years of her career within Healthcare Systems, exploring fresh and innovative approaches to the complexities and challenges inherent in health care design and construction. Prior to this, Jamie started her career as a consultant, providing design services to include, space planning, FF&E coordination, and accessible design consultation. In her leisure time, Jamie enjoys exploring the great outdoors, a good book and naps.

Kelli Falardo has dedicated over 15 years to designing healing environments, and it’s there where she feels her greatest passion to elevate the patient, family/caregiver, and staff experience through design. She has led designs for a wide project range under the healthcare umbrella and believes the built environment has an opportunity to positively impact a person’s well-being. She stays abreast of current research, best practices, and evidence-based design and works with the entire project team to create the best facility for each client’s specific needs. It was because of this passion that she went on to pursue and become a board-certified Healthcare Interior Designer. In addition to leading Page Denver’s Interior Design Studio and mentoring designers, she volunteers time to organizations within her industry by serving on committees in WiH (Women in Healthcare), and CAHED (Colorado Association of Healthcare Engineering and Design).

You don’t so much see Val Williams as hear her first: a loud laugh, often followed by clapping. Her positive approach to life mirrors her approach to clients: what does each person need, want, must share, care about and how can Val support it? Her philosophy is that we can only understand architecture when we understand the people using it. Her career has been a delightful romp through two decades of healthcare planning and design, spanning lab and imaging renovations to massive multispecialty clinics and greenfield replacement of critical access hospitals in the Western U.S. Val also has conducted management research on architectural intern engagement, project process and team dynamics, and on relationship building at a project’s inception. Her background in stand-up and improv comedy proves helpful in the healthcare design field as well as in presenting at major healthcare conferences and events. Stand-up requires a great deal of preparation and thought into the message and means of presentation, while improv necessitates a mix of mindfulness, flexibility, and quick thinking when projects and situations change. Val brings an appreciation for diverse experiences to the Page Denver office. She moved to the Mile High City in 2000 from Florida, where she received her M. Arch from the University of Florida. Prior to that, she studied architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. After receiving her bachelor’s degree from Georgia Tech and her M.Arch from University of Florida, Val moved to Denver, Colorado in 2000. At Page, Val was reunited with a Healthcare colleague from one of her earliest post-graduate roles.