Meredith Galaif
@meredithgalaif
Healthcare operations leader with 7+ years improving lab and clinical workflows through quality and escalation expertise.
What I'm looking for
I’m a healthcare operations professional with 7+ years of experience supporting laboratory, clinical, and member-facing operations in high-growth environments. I’m known for coordinating complex workflows, resolving escalations, and partnering across providers, laboratories, product, engineering, and customer experience teams to improve accuracy, access, and service reliability.
As a Lab Operations Manager and Operations Lead at Function Health, I oversaw end-to-end laboratory operations, including result delivery, exception management, partner escalations, and complex issue resolution. I designed quality controls for laboratory result ingestion and delivery—building automated validations, reconciliation workflows, and operational safeguards to reduce preventable errors and improve data accuracy. I also served as the final escalation owner for complex member and laboratory issues, leading investigations, root-cause analysis, formal complaint responses, and corrective action planning.
Earlier in my career at Virta Health and Everly Health, I supported large provider and enterprise client operations, triaging Tier 1 and Tier 2 requests and coordinating compliant resolutions across multiple teams. I helped launch and scale an FDA-EUA-authorized at-home COVID-19 testing program by developing tracking and exception-management systems, and I created standardized communication templates to strengthen consistency and cross-functional alignment during rapid growth.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Oversaw end-to-end laboratory operations, including result delivery, exception management, and partner escalations across internal teams and external laboratories. Designed quality controls and served as the final escalation owner for complex member and laboratory issues, leading investigations, root-cause analysis, and corrective action planning.
Managed clinical operations for a 20-person provider team serving more than 25,000 patients, triaging Tier 1 and Tier 2 requests for compliant resolution. Coordinated clinical, coaching, customer service, enrollment, and engineering workflows and supported a caseload of 220+ patients using motivational interviewing.
Served as the dedicated operational contact for Everly Health’s largest enterprise client, supporting more than 17 million eligible members. Created standardized communication templates across 40+ diagnostic offerings to improve consistency and cross-functional alignment.
Helped launch and scale an FDA-EUA-authorized at-home COVID-19 testing program by developing tracking and exception-management systems. Supported operational throughput and exception handling during rapid growth.
Managed operational performance across 10 external laboratory partnerships, monitoring service-level agreements and resolving processing issues. Coordinated corrective action for operational gaps and served as an operational contact for an enterprise client.
Admissions Coordinator
Rehab Without Walls
Apr 2018 - Jan 2019 (9 months)
Coordinated admissions and insurance authorization for approximately 35 active and prospective neurorehabilitation patients each week across multiple Texas markets. Managed benefits verification, payer communication, clinical documentation, and billing support for complex TBI, spinal cord injury, and stroke cases.
Education
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University of Georgia
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology
Earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, with a Minor in Sociology, graduating in May 2017.
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