Gaye Fortner, MSN, is the Co-Chief Executive Officer for HealthCareTN and HCTN Solutions, Inc. She has a proven record of successfully assisting employers in managing the health of their employee population through innovative, value-based approaches. She has developed, managed and evaluated a number of funded studies that are dedicated to the management of chronic diseases, high risk lifestyle factors and conditions having a high impact on productivity. She has experience leading multi-stakeholder initiatives that include analysis of the impact of value based benefit designs, employee engagement strategies, employer-provider-health plan collaborations, and development of tools and resources to enhance patient adherence. Under her direction, purchasers have applied national standards for quality measurement in Tennessee, publicly reporting Leapfrog, JCAHO Core Measures, eValue8 and other national data sets. Gaye was one of the original six Leapfrog rollout leaders and has represented purchasers on the National Quality Forum Steering Committees for the National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Nursing Sensitive Care and the HCAPHS performance measures for public reporting. Gaye is a master's prepared nurse and has held numerous quality, educator and leadership roles. She serves on the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions’ Board of Governors and is a 2015 graduate of Leadership Knoxville.