Sandy L. Markert MHA, MBA, IN
Assistant Director and Administrator, Fredericksburg Health Care Center
VA Richmond health care
Mrs. Sandy L. Markert was appointed as Assistant Director and Administrator, Fredericksburg Health Care Center on July 31, 2022.
Mrs. Markert began her career in government service in 1993. She is a U.S. Navy Veteran with extensive knowledge working in the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs health care systems. Mrs. Markert holds master’s degrees in both Health Administration and Business Administration. Her experiences include Supervisory Administrative Management, Human Resources, Finance, Logistics & Contracting, Facilities Management, Biomedical Engineering, Emergency Management, Information Technology and Management, Systems Redesign and Lean Process Improvement.
Mrs. Markert formerly worked with the Central Virginia VA Health Care System; having begun her VA career as a medical support assistant at the Fredericksburg Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) in 2006. She went on to work in Specialty Care as the Administrative Officer (AO) for Neurology, AO for Primary Care, and then back to the CBOCs as Group Practice Manager. During that period, Mrs. Markert had the distinct privilege of activating both the current Charlottesville CBOC and the Fredericksburg Southpoint VA Clinic.
In 2016, she left our team to pursue other opportunities and spent approximately four and a half years working in VISN 20 at the Roseburg VA Health Care System, a Level 3 tertiary care center in Roseburg, Oregon, as the Chief of Health Administration Service.
Most recently, Mrs. Markert managed the Integrity and Compliance program for the Martinsburg VAMC located Martinsburg, West Virginia, within VISN 5.