Grounded in our mission, vision, and values

Grounded in our mission, vision and values

Through the extensive experience of the Oasis team, we see an opportunity to address the health equity challenges of seniors.

Forming Oasis is a way to partner with great providers and enable them to spend more of their time focused on providing care for the patients who need it most.

Our Mission
Our Mission

is to build healthier communities by advancing primary care.

Our Vision
Our Vision

is to build healthier communities across America by partnering with patients, providers and health plans to provide personalized, local care.

Our Values
Our Values

Our team is deeply committed to living out our values in our relationships with our partners, communities and each other.

Our core values include:

Listen first

We best serve our partners by Listening First. Every patient, every provider and every health plan brings unique challenges, opportunities and priorities. We Listen First internally and externally to foster understanding and collaboration.

Do the right thing

We embrace our mission, vision and values as our true north. We expect our team to Do the Right Thing, acting with integrity and putting the needs of the patient first.  

Build together

In our partnership model we Build Together. We believe partnering enables the more innovative models needed to create the healthcare system we want for our communities.

Go all in

We are taking on significant challenges and our team is prepared to Go All In for our partners and our communities.  We are resilient and relentless in our pursuit of personalized, local care for seniors.

Have fun!

We Have Fun as we take bold steps, find creative solutions and work together to build healthier communities by advancing primary care.

Brian Mathis & Kari Snaza
Chief Executive Officer

Kari Severson Snaza

Kari Severson Snaza is the Co-Founder and CEO of Oasis Health Partners®. Her family roots run deep in rural communities across the Midwest, where she witnessed firsthand the stark inequities in care between small towns and big cities. Those formative experiences sparked her lifelong commitment to transforming healthcare.

Over the course of her career, Kari has worked extensively in value-based primary care, partnering with health systems and health plans across the U.S. and internationally. Most recently, she served as Chief Strategy Officer at Mayo Clinic, following a fifteen-year career at UnitedHealth Group. These experiences have given her a clear perspective on what great care looks like – and where meaningful opportunities still exist.

Looking ahead, Kari is driven by a vision to make healthcare more resilient, patient-centered and sustainable.

Our leaders have deep healthcare expertise – and together share a passion for advancing primary care!

Kari Severson Snaza

Kari Severson Snaza

Chief Executive Officer

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John Mark Hackney

Chief Operating Officer

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Dave Moen, MD

Chief Provider Relations Officer

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Idan Ben-Arieh

Chief Data Analytics Officer

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Kara Burg

Executive Director, Iowa Market

Jaimee Gertz

Jaimee Gertz

Vice President, People

Alex Hall

Alex Hall

Executive Director, Virginia Market

Kyle Hecker

Kyle Hecker

Executive Director, Louisiana Market

Suzanne Kieltyka

Suzanne Kieltyka

Executive Director, Georgia Market

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Julie Joyce

Vice President, Network

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Clare Messerschmidt

Vice President, Product

Nashant Patel

Nishant Patel

Vice President, Finance

Pat Raisor

Pat Raisor

VP, Performance Management

Serving those who deserve it most

Every day 11,000 people in the United States become eligible for Medicare. That’s parents, grandparents, aunts, brothers, friends and mentors who deserve a simpler and more empathetic healthcare system.
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Our opportunity

More than 25% of these seniors live in communities where access is a challenge — smaller hospitals are closing or consolidating, specialists are often long distances away and primary care providers are retiring rapidly. Virtual care, while valuable, remains limited by broadband access and does not replace the benefits of trusted local care.

These communities also tend to have lower Medicare Advantage participation levels, which means fewer benefits to those patients. Studies show that seniors living in these communities experience:

33%

higher prevalence of multiple chronic conditions

27%

higher prevalence of diabetes

20%

higher prevalence of obesity

40%

higher prevalence of chronic heart failure

26%

higher mortality rate

Oasis is here to address these disparities and reimagine senior care.