Areas of Expertise: Long-Term Care; Nursing Homes — Residential Care; Hospital Administration; Credentialing, Licensing & Privileges; Wound Care; Hospice & Palliative Medicine.
Steven C. Smyth is a licensed Nursing Home Administrator (NY, NJ, PA, NC), nationally credentialed Health Services Executive, and experienced healthcare leader with more than 30 years of healthcare administration experience, including extensive leadership in skilled nursing, long-term care, rehabilitation, post-acute care, and related senior care settings.
Through Steven Smyth Expert Consulting, LLC, he provides objective, independent, non-clinical expert witness and consulting services to plaintiff and defense counsel in matters involving nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living, adult day care, adult homes, hospice, and home and community-based services.
Mr. Smyth's expert witness work focuses on administrative and operational standards of care, including regulatory compliance, facility operations, staffing, supervision, resident safety, care planning systems, fall prevention, elopement prevention, abuse and neglect prevention, incident investigation, risk management, quality assurance, discharge planning, documentation practices, and the responsibilities of facility leadership and governing bodies.
His opinions are grounded in decades of hands-on executive leadership in long-term care facilities, including responsibility for daily operations, Department of Health surveys, quality assurance and performance improvement, staffing systems, resident care processes, interdisciplinary coordination, regulatory compliance, budgets, census development, staff supervision, and organizational risk management.
Mr. Smyth assists attorneys by reviewing medical records, facility policies, care plans, staffing records, incident reports, survey history, regulatory materials, deposition testimony, and other case documents. He provides case evaluations, written reports, certificates or affidavits where appropriate, deposition testimony, and trial testimony.
His analysis is administrative and non-clinical in nature. He does not offer medical causation opinions, but evaluates whether facility systems, leadership practices, regulatory compliance, staffing, supervision, documentation, and operational controls met accepted standards in the long-term care industry.
Mr. Smyth holds a Master of Arts in Health Administration from Hofstra University and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Adelphi University. His credentials include Licensed Nursing Home Administrator, Health Services Executive, Certified Nursing Home Administrator, Certified Internal Forensic Healthcare Auditor, Certified Montessori Dementia Care Professional, Board Certified Patient Advocate, Fellow of the American College of Health Care Administrators, and Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
He has served in professional leadership roles, including service on the LeadingAge New York Board of Directors, and has chaired or participated in national committees for the American College of Health Care Administrators. He is also a multiple-time recipient of the Eli Pick Facility Leadership Award, recognizing leadership excellence in skilled nursing facility administration.
With deep experience in long-term care operations, regulatory compliance, quality improvement, staffing, supervision, and resident safety, Mr. Smyth provides clear, practical, and credible expert analysis for litigation involving nursing home and long-term care administration.