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
LALD · 245D Designated Manager qualified
Leads every engagement — licensure strategy, MDH survey response, DHS licensing reviews, and the leadership work that keeps a program steady after the consultant leaves.
Mohamed is a Licensed Assisted Living Director (LALD) who also meets the 245D Designated Manager qualification, and he has operated on both sides of Minnesota's regulatory line — assisted living under MDH, and 245D group home and community-based services under DHS. That dual footing is why HiCARE can sit in a survey exit conference in the morning and answer a licensor's correction order in the afternoon.
Mohamed came to consulting from inside Minnesota care and disability services — the buildings, the group homes, the staffing pressure, the surveys and the licensing reviews — and started HiCARE so providers had someone who understood both the regulation and the person behind it.
He leads licensure strategy, survey response, and DHS correction-order work personally, and stays involved through the follow-up most consultants hand off.
The team
Specialists, not generalists.
Licensing, survey and licensing-review readiness, policy systems, and staff development — across MDH Chapter 144 and DHS 245D, 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
245D licensing & group home operations
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, MHCP and waiver enrollment, and the follow-up questions that stall most first-time applicants. He has hands-on 245D group home operating experience, so CRS and adult foster care startups get advice from someone who has run the home, not just filed the paperwork.
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.