We’re Here Because We Care
ZipCare is a network of high-quality and culturally-sensitive urgent care facilities with convenient locations. We started the network so that our patients can access affordable, quick, and comfortable care.
John Lieberman is a healthcare innovator who has spent years developing and implementing new clinical models to provide healthcare for underserved populations. Over the last twelve years, he founded and operates five clinics and urgent care centers in Brooklyn and Rockland County, New York, and Ocean County, New Jersey, that care for over 200,000 patients per year, 75% of whom are Medicaid and/or Medicare eligible. The impact of COVID and the significant diversion of patient loads to his centers have led to the innovations that underlie the ZipCare vision.
Dr. Rodney C. Armstead is committed to bringing high-quality and cost-effective health care to all Americans. He is currently a principal at Armstead & Esslinger Health Consultants, LLC, focusing on strategy; operations and automation; integration of clinical and care solutions for physical, behavioral, pharmacy, and social needs for Medicaid; aged, blind, and disabled, fully integrated dual-eligibles for Medicare and Medicaid; subsidized expansion; long term services; and support and institutional populations.
Most recently, Armstead was executive vice president for complex population management at Optum, a UnitedHealth Group company. He worked to deliver integrated, intelligent solutions to modernize the health care system and improve overall individual and population health. He led Optum’s business unit, which was responsible for transforming health care for the most medically complex patients, in delivering provider-led, patient-centric care and care management in the most clinically appropriate setting to the most vulnerable populations, including those with multiple chronic conditions and those facing serious illness.
Armstead earned his bachelor of science degree from the University of California, Irvine, and his medical degree from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine.
Dr. Christian is a uniquely qualified Physician Executive and Clinical Strategist with an impressive track record of growing successful healthcare organizations. He has membership and certification in numerous medical organizations — including the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, American Board of Medical Quality, American Society of Clinical Pathology, American College of Preventive Medicine, and The American College of Physician Executives.
For the past fourteen years, he has served CMO at American Health Associates, the nation's largest provider of clinical laboratory services and COVID-19 testing in the nursing home arena. In that role, he works closely with physicians and senior nurse clinicians at more than 6,000 nursing homes, serving as the liaison between clinical practice and laboratory medicine, most recently around the development of strategies for COVID-19 testing in long-term care settings.
He has held medical directorships with preeminent healthcare companies including, Bravo Health, BCBS, UnitedHealthcare, and HCR Manorcare, and served a tenure as Managing Director of Health at Dreamit Ventures, a Forbes Top 10 Venture Accelerator. He maintains ongoing relationships with many of the nation's leading health systems such as Johns Hopkins Medicine, Bon Secours Health, Detroit Medical Center, Broward Health District, USC Physicians, and Northwestern Health in Chicago, among others. He consults internationally with digital health startups, healthcare VCs, Pharma companies, and forward-focused health systems across the healthcare spectrum, and is known for his abilities to innovate, develop, evaluate, and network to generate outcomes-focused solutions.