Shoreline Health Solutions, LLC is a community health consulting firm founded in 2000. We work exclusively with community health centers, and other non-profit agencies working to improve access to health care for under-served populations. With a deep respect for the community health center model of care, we have worked with urban and rural health centers nationwide to support their mission, including our highly successful grant writing services.
Since May 2000, Shoreline has secured over $210 million in grant funding for our community health center clients.
We empower health organizations through strategic guidance and comprehensive services tailored to enhance operational efficiency, improve quality of care, and secure essential funding.
Trudy Brown Ripin, MPH
Founder and President
Trudy, with extensive experience in healthcare management and consulting, leverages her Stanford and Harvard education to enhance community health centers nationwide through strategic guidance and compliance support.
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Molly K. Gwisc, MPH
Senior Associate
Molly, with a Masters in Public Health from the University of Connecticut and over twenty years of grant writing experience, has significantly contributed to improving healthcare access for underserved communities through Shoreline since 2002, specializing in FQHC compliance, data analysis, and developing comprehensive community needs assessments.
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Laura Provost Brown
Finance & Contract Coordinator
Laura Provost Brown, with over 25 years of financial service experience through Compassionate Money Management, LLC, joined Shoreline in 2010 to oversee finances, client communications, contracts, and agreements, enhancing the company’s operations with her skill, professionalism, and compassion.
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Having worked with community health centers nationwide, we bring a high level of understanding and expertise in the priorities and operational systems inherent in the CHC model of care.
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Trudy is a graduate of Stanford University and the Harvard School of Public Health. She has been an independent community health center consultant since 2000, and is the owner of Shoreline Health Solutions.
Prior to her consulting work, Trudy spent three years in leadership at a Federally Qualified Health Center in Connecticut. In this role, she coordinated all grant activities, prepared grant applications, facilitated the Joint Commission accreditation process, coordinated HIV and wellness programs, managed the quality improvement program, and served as team leader for the HRSA Diabetes Collaborative program. Trudy also previously worked for a Medicaid Managed Care organization in Massachusetts, providing services to their membership of over 70 community health centers. In this role, she was the coordinator for their domestic violence screening and outreach program, as well as their HIV counseling and testing programs.
As a consultant, Trudy has provided direct technical assistance to community health centers, health center controlled networks, and primary care associations throughout the country. This includes grant writing; grant application reviews; FQHC compliance and preparation assistance; risk management & quality improvement program support, including peer review, incident management, and sentinel event response; development of policy and procedure manuals; and staff/Board training activities.
Molly has a Masters in Public Health from the University of Connecticut, where she was awarded the Graduate Program Committee Fellowship. Prior to her community health center work, Molly worked for a statewide community health agency and at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, where she obtained large grant funding awards from the Allstate Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Molly has been working with community health centers through Shoreline since 2002.
Throughout her long-standing tenure with Shoreline, Molly has worked with health centers throughout the country to improve access to health care for under-served populations. She has over twenty years of grant writing experience. Molly has extensive knowledge of FQHC requirements and strategies to maintain FQHC compliance. She also has in depth expertise with conducting data collection and analysis, and is skilled in the use of the HRSA Health Center Program GeoCare Navigator (replaced the UDS Mapper system). Using data from a broad array of Federal, State and local sources, Molly has particular expertise at developing comprehensive community needs assessments and using these needs assessments to identify gaps in services.
Laura Provost Brown began working with Shoreline in 2010. Laura oversees Shoreline’s finances, finance-related client communications, as well as client contracts and agreements. Laura has over 25 years of experience and is the owner of Compassionate Money Management, LLC. Through Compassionate Money Management, Laura has provided financial services for a broad array of clients in the fashion, real estate, environmental and medical industries. Shoreline is fortunate to have Laura on our team, as she brings a high degree of skill, professionalism, and compassion to our company’s overall operations.
