Our People

Building Bridges for Tomorrow
NorthCoast bridges the gap between traditional and conventional methods of patient services and provides an innovative and forerunning approach to better serve patients and carriers. Lee Passell, owner and President of NorthCoast, has always been curious about more than just numbers, even when he began his early career as a CPA. Lee envisioned a comprehensive, coordinated approach for providing services to patients in their home. By facilitating appropriate discharge planning and service delivery, he has brought significant savings to insurance companies and hospitals. His vision still includes coordinated, patient-centered care when patient need, physician order, and benefit plan are skillfully matched and directed toward producing positive outcomes.



Much of his vision included building a team of healthcare professionals with diverse expertise and experiences. He sought passionate leaders at all levels who are independent thinkers and would push with energy and spirit to see their ideas accomplished, no matter what the challenges. He created an environment focused on paving paths, creating, innovating, and implementing his vision, while building a company where people want to work and have a love for what they do. Many Coast associates have worked together for well over 20 years.

Your future is our today. We are bridging the gap to move toward an innovative tomorrow. By infusing contagious enthusiasm and passion in our team and those who work with us, we are breaking the conventional barriers with cutting-edge technology that links clinical and financial systems and processes. We drive exemplary models of service, networks, and programs while being dedicated to individualized care and the unique needs of each patient.

The healthcare challenges of today are extensive in all venues of care. Our focus is to bridge the challenges, provide exceptional service and remain ever vigilant and focused on our home care patients and other partners in care. NorthCoast is “building bridges for tomorrow” for excellence in healthcare.