Our team
The people you'll actually work with.
A small senior team, so the person advising you is the person doing the work.
Founder & Director
Mohamed Dagane
Leads every engagement — licensure strategy, survey response, and the leadership work that keeps a community steady after the consultant leaves.
Mohamed came to consulting from inside Minnesota senior care — the buildings, the staffing pressure, and the surveys — and started HiCARE so providers had someone who understood both the regulation and the resident behind it.
He leads licensure strategy and survey response personally, and stays involved through the follow-up work most consultants hand off.
The team
Specialists, not generalists.
Licensing, survey readiness, policy systems, and staff development — each led by someone who does that work every week.
Ayaan Nur
Director of Compliance & Survey Readiness
Mock surveys, correction orders, and plan-of-correction follow-through.
Ayaan has sat on both sides of a survey exit conference. She runs HiCARE's mock survey program, builds plans of correction that hold up on revisit, and coaches administrators through correction orders without the panic.
Yusuf Warsame
Senior Licensing Consultant
144G, 144A and 245D applications, change-of-ownership, and provider enrollment.
Yusuf handles applications end to end — 144G assisted living, 144A home care, and 245D HCBS — including change-of-ownership, provider enrollment, and the follow-up questions that stall most first-time applicants.
Daniel Whitaker
Director of Policy & Quality Systems
Policy manuals, documentation systems, and internal audit programs that hold up.
Daniel rewrites policy manuals people actually use, then builds the documentation and internal audit rhythm that keeps them true a year later instead of six weeks later.
Priya Raman
Manager of Training & Staff Development
Orientation, competency validation, and training records surveyors ask for first.
Priya designs orientation and competency programs that map to Minnesota requirements, and gets training records into the shape surveyors ask for on day one of a visit.