Yale School of Management - Sandra Flood '87

"Yale SOM is not like other management schools. The fact that it was the only school that offered management education for people in the nonprofit and public arenas, meant that for me, it was the only place I knew where I could get the education I needed to pursue my professional goals. Yale SOM delivered beyond my highest expectations.

The collaboration between the various graduate schools at Yale brought to Yale SOM the leading professors in healthcare policy and management. In combination with the other core studies, this gave me a unique advantage in that key healthcare professionals were made available to me through my professors and fellow classmates. My first position after graduation was obtained through such a contact. In short, I would not be where I am today if it wasn’t for the education I received at Yale SOM and the friendships and contacts I made there. It is an extraordinary school."

Sandra Flood joined Dreiling Medical Management in January of 2004 as chief operating officer. She has overall responsibility for managing day-to-day operations of the chronic and acute dialysis programs; contract negotiations with national vendors and third-party payors; feasibility analysis and clinical program planning; site development and oversight of new unit construction and renovations; developing budgets and monitoring ongoing operations; compliance with all local, state, and federal government regulations; and liaison with and recruitment of physician partners.

Sandy has more than three decades of experience in the healthcare field; first as a dialysis staff nurse and nurse manager of Yale-New Haven Hospital’s dialysis program and then in a variety of management positions including director of planning at University of Connecticut Health Center; senior healthcare planner at The Lehigh Valley Hospital Center in Allentown, PA; executive director of The Northeast Regional Radiation Oncology Network in Manchester, CT; and director of the renal care centers for both Waterbury Hospital in Waterbury, CT and The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ.

Sandy earned a bachelor of science degree in nursing from Skidmore College. She is a clinical nurse specialist in nephrology and cardiovascular nursing earning a master of science in nursing from Yale University and a master of business administration from the Yale School of Management.

In addition, Sandy is a fellow in The American College of Healthcare Executives. She is a longstanding member of the American Nephrology Nurses Association where she has served on a variety of volunteer positions including national secretary on the board of directors and chair of publications. Sandy is also a member of the National Renal Administrators Association, Sigma Theta Tau national nursing honor society, and a former board member of the Connecticut chapter of the National Kidney Foundation. She is also a member of the team that developed the first dialysis reimbursement guide funded by Amgen which was distributed to all dialysis programs in the United States and participated in its revision a few years later.