Tracy Raleigh is an accomplished health care leader with 30 years of executive experience in both the public and private sectors. Her practice focuses on providing strategic consulting services and government advocacy services to health care systems, community hospitals and other providers across New York State and nationally, with a particular focus on assisting rural and urban distressed health care providers. She provides consulting servies related to strategic transformation initiatives, performance improvement, capital financing and access, and alternative payment models, including value-based payment; and population health initiatives. 

Before joining Manatt, Tracy was the Director of the Center for Planning, Licensure, and Finance for the New York State Department of Health. In this capacity, she directed the operating and capital grant funding programs for health care providers, and other activities of the Center, including policy and program development, and oversaw all functions related to health system planning and licensure, including the administration of the Certificate of Need Program.  Additionally, she led COVID-19 pandemic response teams related to the innovative Surge and Flex and vaccine distribution state programs, where she provided oversight and implementation of load balancing policies, alternate inpatient care and testing sites, and coordination of Vaccine HUB hospitals, including distribution and redistribution of vaccines

Some of Tracy’s notable work includes successfully assisting health systems both upstate and downstate access operating and capital funding to support strategic transformation initiatives through New York’s supplemental payment programs including Directed Payment Template (DPT), Vital Access Provider Assurance Program (VAPAP),  and Vital Access Provider (VAP) grants,  as well as through the Safety Net Transformation Program for major capital improvements and innovative collaborations to promote access to care and improve quality and outcomes.

Previously, Tracy served as the Assistant Director of Public Finance and Portfolio Monitoring for the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York, where she managed the monitoring processes and procedures for the health care bond portfolio including involvemen in numerous restructurings, and also  supported bond financing transactions for capital projects at numerous health care systems and higher education organizations.