sm/c/p partners with Alexandria-based Schmidt Public Affairs (SPA) to establish Health Media Management Group, LLC (HMMG) to create paid media and manage polling and research projects on behalf of DC-based Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care (AQNHC), Texas Health Care Association (THCA) and the Louisiana Nursing Home Association (LNHA). sm/c/p concurrently serves as primary day to day writer for both the American Health Care Assn (AHCA) and AQNHC on long term and post-acute care federal and state issues.