Thomas Mehnert,
M.B.A., Baruch/Mt. Sinai Health Administration Program, is the former Chief
Financial Officer and the Director of Fiscal
Services, now working for the Center as a part time fiscal consultant. He has twenty-five years of experience
in operations, regulatory compliance and quality improvement, primarily
in the outpatient clinical service setting, and oversees all of the
Center’s fiscal and budgetary quality assurance activities.
In addition to establishing a Quality Assurance Department at a major
rehabilitation center, Mr. Mehnert has developed two successful outpatient
clinics for two different organizations that focus on individuals
with special needs. Mr. Mehnert also serves as the Board Treasurer
for the Partnership for Innovative Comprehensive Care, an agency providing
residential, case management and day habilitation services for individuals
with developmental disabilities. Mr. Mehnert was the Assistant Project
Director for the International Center for the Disabled’s (ICD)
landmark survey Bringing Disabled Americans into the Mainstream, the
first national survey to ask individuals with disabilities about societal
access and barriers, the results of which were cited by the U.S. Congress
as the statistical justification for the Americans with Disabilities
Act (1990).
Publications:
Krauss, H., Mehnert,
T., Nadler, R., & Greenberg, R. (1993). Perceiving oneself as
disabled or as having a disabling condition: A discriminant function
analysis. International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 16, 119.
Mehnert, T., Krauss,
H., Nadler, R., & Boyd, M. (1990). Correlates of life satisfaction
in those with disabling conditions. Rehabilitation Psychology, 35(1),
3.
Hill, N., Mehnert,
T., Taylor H., Kagay, M., & Leichenko, S. (1989). A report card
on special education (Monograph). New York: International Center for
the Disabled.
Mehnert, T., &
Krauss, H. (1989). Cost benefits of a medically supervised outpatient
day treatment program for Alzheimer’s patients. Journal of Alzheimer’s
Disease and Related Research, 4(2), 4.
Hill, N., Mehnert,
T., & Lederer, E. (1987). The merits of hiring disabled persons.
Business & Health, 4(4), 42.
Hill, N., Mehnert,
T., Taylor H., Kagay, M., & Leichenko, S. (1987). Employing disabled
Americans (Monograph). New York: International Center for the Disabled.
Hill, N., Mehnert,
T., Taylor H., Kagay, M., & Leichenko, S. (1986). Bringing disabled
Americans into the mainstream (Monograph). New York: International
Center for the Disabled.
Mehnert, T. (1985).
The reassessment process: Key to a meaningful quality assurance program.
Quality Review Bulletin, 11(4), 127.
Mehnert, T. (1980).
The problem oriented format—A method of demonstrating quality
assurance compliance. Journal of Quality Assurance, 2(4), 21.
