Sheronica Barcliff, BS, MSHA

Ms. Barcliff is the Founder and CEO of The Barcliff Group LLC, a health care quality and wellness organization offering a suite of services and products.

Previously, Ms. Barcliff was an Accreditation Manager with the Accreditation Operations of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). She was responsible for coordinating and conducting accreditation and certification surveys for healthcare organizations. 
Prior to joining Accreditation Operations, Ms. Barcliff held the position of Associate Manager of Quality, Accreditation, and Credentialing in the Medical Management Department at Virginia Premier Health Plan. She was responsible for assisting all three operational areas in coordinating and leading departmental processes as well as leading quality work teams and projects for impacted departments. She was also responsible for ensuring on-going compliance to internal, accreditation and/or regulatory standards through data entry, collection, tracking, trending, monitoring, and analysis. 
Prior to joining Quality Operations, Ms. Barcliff held the position of Quality Implementation Specialist & Interim Credentialing Manager at Virginia Premier Health Plan. In those positions, she was responsible for managing and overseeing all delegated and non-delegated credentialing activities. She was responsible for leading Medicaid and Medicare Deeming regulatory accreditation work teams company-wide to ensure on-going compliance through departmental audits and organizational education orientations related to standards of compliance.

Ms. Barcliff received her B.S. in Sports Medicine from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA and received a Master’s of Science in Health Administration from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.

Veronica Locke, MHSA

Veronica C. Locke is a Manager of Policy, Accreditation for the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). She is actively involved in the development and maintenance of the standards and guidelines of NCQA's Accreditation and Certification programs, specifically Health Plan (HP), Disease Management (DM) and Multicultural Health Care (MHC). As a member of the Policy team, one of her major responsibilities is to serve as a content champion when providing policy clarifications and trainings internally and externally. Veronica also manages NCQA's Accreditation and Certification Users Group (ACUG), which is an interactive learning community for healthcare organizations to communicate with each other and staff members to learn best practices and help shape NCQA's products and services.

Ms. Locke received her Bachelor of Science in Public Health from the University of Maryland, College Park and received her Master of Health Systems Administration (MHSA) from Georgetown University.