Our Team
The Brite Side team is a tight-knit, talented group with a shared vision of delivering consistently great results for our clients. Everyone says it, but in our case it’s true: our team is the secret to our success.
Andrea Zamora - CEO, CPA
Andrea is a compassionate, energetic leader with a dedication to improving our quality of healthcare. Andrea has been a CEO and CPA in public and community health, nonprofit, certified public accounting, charity, and governmental agencies while ensuring fiscal sustainability around the fulfillment of mission-based organizations. Her leadership is built on honesty, and ethics, with the ability to inspire teams in building healthcare networks.
Proven areas of expertise include long-term financial planning, senior healthcare leadership, healthcare contracts, and grants, requests for proposals, recruitment, clinical and financial dashboards, clinical quality assurance and improvement, financial and nonprofit accounting, healthcare partnership network development, board of director education, policy and procedures, innovative grant and revenue generation, budget and financial analysis, patient-centered medical home accreditation, indirect cost allocation, and executive level coaching.
Rachel Abshire - Consultant
Raised on the rural island of Molokaʻi, Hawaiʻi, Rachel Abshire has more than 10 years of experience working in Community Health Systems servicing underserved communities. Rachel holds a Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration and Management, and specializes in Quality Improvement and Risk Management. Rachel is highly competent in leading, advising, and monitoring accreditation cycles and processes, managing patient care and safety, performance improvement, data analysis, organizational compliance, quality improvement initiatives, and developing and communicating risk policies and processes for health care organizations.
As the former QI&R Manager for the Molokaʻi Community Health Center, Rachel directed the movement of the organization from a level 1 Patient Centered Medical Home, to a level 4. Her skill sets within this health care field also include: UDS reporting, data collection, OSHA compliance, Incident reporting and investigations, and grant management. In addition to her experience in the healthcare industry, Rachel also worked in Finance for 5 years.
Rachel possesses comprehensive knowledge of accounting and auditing principles, payroll, general ledger postings, invoicing, producing profit and loss statements and balance sheets, bank reconciliations, filing employee taxes, and analyzing cost control. Rachel is also proficient in QuickBooks.
Madison Zamora - Operations Director
Madison has valuable experience with direct patient care. She loves improving patient outcomes with a dedication to quality of care. By working with Briteside Consulting, Madison shares her gifts and talents to be on the cutting edge of healthcare innovation.
Her unique perspective gained from enriching patient interactions, makes her an asset to Briteside’s mission “to empower those that do good in the world by providing expertise that ignites dreams into creation.” When she is not working with inspiring clients, Madison enjoys going to the gym, reading and chasing waves surfing.
