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Clare Moylan

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Based in Nashville and Sydney

cmoylan@gibbinsadvisors.com

USA: (615) 696 6556   

AU: 0404 738 995

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Clare Moylan is a turnaround and restructuring professional specializing in healthcare and aged care with ~20 years of experience. She has built her career helping organizations under pressure to stabilize, evaluate their options, and execute programs that restore both financial health and operational stability.

Clare is known for bringing a calm, structured approach to complex challenges, earning the confidence of stakeholders and ensuring clarity and focus amid situations with many moving parts.

She works with a broad range of clients on both the company side—including hospitals, healthcare systems, and service providers—and the lender side, advising secured creditors, landlords, and investor groups navigating distressed or complex situations. Her experience spans the full spectrum of healthcare delivery: primary care, acute hospitals, skilled nursing, hospice, physician practices, senior living, and home health. Clare has also held senior executive and operational roles, giving her firsthand insight into the realities healthcare organizations face.

Clare serves as Co-Chair of the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Healthcare Committee and as Deputy Chair on the board of The Skin Hospital, a non-profit dermatology organization dedicated to clinical excellence, physician education, and advancing the specialty through clinical trials and research.

Key Skills & Expertise

  • Executive leadership

  • Restructuring & crisis management

  • Insolvency / bankruptcy

  • Business analysis

  • Strategic planning

  • Program / change management

  • Performance improvement

  • Transaction support (M&A)

  • Litigation support

Education

  • CFA Charterholder (Chartered Financial Analyst)

  • Bachelor of Business Administration/Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honors) from Macquarie University

  • Master Certificate in Healthcare Leadership from Cornell University

  • Certified Insolvency & Restructuring Advisor (CIRA)

    • Crisis Response Leadership – Directed the COVID-19 response for Australia’s second-largest private hospital system (43 hospitals), guiding crisis management and planning that enabled the system to emerge successfully from the pandemic.

    • Senior Living Turnaround – Led assessment and planning for a 30+ site Midwest senior living (AL/MC) organization, charting a path to restore covenant compliance, financial sustainability, and mission alignment.

    • Community Hospital Chapter 11 – Advised bondholders of a distressed community hospital with a complex legal structure, rapidly evaluating prospects and guiding the strategy to protect collateral and maximize recovery.

    • Hospital Merger Synergies – Co-led evaluation of two distressed New York State hospitals considering a merger; managed stakeholders and a 20-member Gibbins Advisors team to quantify, plan, and communicate opportunities.

    • Independent Monitor – Mission Health (HCA Acquisition) – Oversaw HCA Healthcare’s $1.5 billion acquisition of the 7-hospital Mission Health System in North Carolina), monitoring compliance with commitments on capex, services, and charity care and liaising with the office of the NC Attorney General.

    • Multi-Hospital System Turnaround (AU$2.2B) – Co-led a complex operational turnaround; within seven months, reduced Average Length of Stay by 10%+ and delivered AU$100 million in savings (vs AU$40 million target).

    • Executive Leadership – Homecare & Hospice – As Executive Director of a $20M, 200+ employee business, led initiatives that improved net income by $2.2M year-over-year.

    • Skilled Nursing & Behavioral Healthcare Turnaround – Program Director for Tennessee-based group, restoring covenant compliance, growing days cash on hand from 8 to 75 in 18 months, and avoiding bankruptcy. Achieved 45% corporate cost reduction and $30M in surplus asset sales.

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