Management Strength
The Company has assembled a team with deep inpatient rehabilitation expertise at the corporate level in order to ensure success for our local inpatient rehabilitation operations. A few members of our management team are:
Patrick Foster, President and CEO
Pat Foster has 25 years of healthcare services experience, 18 of which have been devoted to operating rehabilitation hospitals. Early in his career Mr. Foster served as vice president/assistant administrator for two large not-for-profit hospitals before entering the post-acute care industry. Most recently he served as president for the inpatient rehabilitation hospital division of a large hospital company with responsibility for 98 rehabilitation hospitals and eight long-term acute care hospitals. Mr. Foster’s division consistently exceeded national averages for clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction while generating strong financial results.
Financial and Reimbursement
Rudy Blank , Vice President of Finance and Accounting
Rudy Blank has over 12 years of financial experience working in both big four public accounting firms and privately-held multi-national companies. He has held senior management positions with oversight including the finance, accounting, and supply-chain departments. He has worked with one of the largest providers of care and services to seniors. Most recently he served as the controller for the nation's leading provider of outsourced perfusion, auto transfusion, anesthesia technician, and blood management services. He is a certified public account and a member of various financial and healthcare organizations.
Frank DiCesare, Vice President of Operations
Frank DiCesare has over 18 years of healthcare experience in the public for-profit area. Most recently he served as the vice president of operations for a large rehabilitation and long term acute care hospital company. He served in various management roles with responsibilities for divisional financial operations, budgeting, development review, start-up operations, legislative activities, capital expenditures and commercial contracting. Mr. DiCesare has served on various Boards of Directors for joint venture partnerships and on the finance committee for the Federation of American Hospitals. He was also the controller and CFO of a 219-bed acute care medical center.
Clinical
Jean Davis, Senior Vice President of Clinical and Support Services
Jean Davis has 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry, most of which have been devoted to overseeing the clinical programming and outcomes and case management functions within the inpatient rehabilitation industry. Ms. Davis also has served as CEO for start-up hospitals and has clinical training in counseling and physical therapy. Ms. Davis has been responsible for directing and evaluating the effectiveness of clinical, regulatory and case-management services and systems for several large multi-hospital systems. She was a member of the IRF-PPS Technical Expert Panel used by RAND and CMS to develop the prospective payment system for rehabilitation hospitals. She has also participated in the design, development and presentation to CMS of a Pay for Performance design for Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities. Ms. Davis coordinates and directs the implementation of Centerre’s new joint venture hospitals.
Development
Patrick Lee, Vice President of Business Development
Patrick Lee is a registered medical technologist with an undergraduate degree in Biology from Northeast Missouri State University and a Masters in Health Administration & Planning from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. He is the former CEO of a 60-bed joint venture rehabilitation hospital with University of Missouri Healthcare and has a total of 25 years healthcare management experience serving in various leadership roles with several prominent academic medical centers and a large integrated healthcare system. Mr. Lee’s leadership experience with inpatient rehabilitation includes two years as senior vice president of operations for physical rehabilitation services with one of the largest healthcare contract management companies.
Quality Management
Cheryl Fleming, Corporate Director of Quality Management
Cheryl Fleming is a registered nurse with more than 22 years experience in rehabilitation. Her expertise as the corporate director of quality management is built on leadership success and outstanding outcomes as CEO of a large inpatient rehabilitation hospital in a multi-rehabilitation hospital organization. Additionally she has participated in and contributed to developing and conducting leadership and management training, including systems and processes that improve outcomes and services for rehabilitation professionals across the country. Ms. Fleming has been a participant on numerous professional and community boards, and is active in organizing state and national lobbying efforts in rehabilitation.
Inpatient Rehabilitation PPS Coding and Health Information Management
Debra Call, Corporate Director of Health Information
Debra Call is a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) with over 25 years of experience in health information services. She specializes in inpatient rehabilitation coding for prospective payment system reimbursement, and also has expertise in acute care and long-term care PPS coding. She provides oversight and training for coding and reimbursement systems as well as assuring all HIPPA requirements are met in all partnership locations.
Information Technology
Eddie Gadsey, Chief Information Officer
Eddie Gadsey has over 16 years experience working primarily in healthcare information technology. Most recently he served as CIO for an organization which owns and operates freestanding rehabilitation and psychiatric hospitals. Mr. Gadsey also served as director of technical operations with an organization which owns and operates general, acute-care and behavioral hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers where he was responsible for overseeing new systems implementation.
Human Resources
Julie Farris, Director of Human Resources
Julie Farris is the former Director of Human Resources for a nation-wide outpatient ambulatory surgery center company based in Nashville, TN. Her expertise was established during the creation and growth of the current human resources department for that company. Ms. Farris has extensive experience in the areas of employee relations, benefit administration, employee and manager coaching, recruitment, training and acquisition activities. She has a strong foundation in the areas of policy creation, compliance (including SOX) and internal audit controls. She is an active member of the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) and the American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration.
Centerre-Partnered Hospital CEOs
Donna Flannery, Chief Executive Officer — St. John's Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital.
Donna is a seasoned healthcare executive with 22 years of experience in the inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation industry. Donna began her healthcare career as a Speech-Language Pathologist and has served in many senior level executive positions including CEO of the Rehabilitation Institute of St. Louis, Regional Vice President of Operations for HealthSouth and Vice President of Development for Centerre Healthcare. Throughout her career she has gained expertise in developing and implementing successful rehabilitation hospital partnerships with large acute care hospitals. She has been involved with numerous start-up rehabilitation hospitals and units including, The Rehabilitation Institute of St. Louis, Rusk Rehabilitation Center and VanMatre Rehabilitation Hospital.
Tammy Ober, Chief Executive Officer — Lancaster Rehabilitation Hospital
Tammy joined Centerre Healthcare in August, 2006 as CEO of Lancaster Rehabilitation Hospital, a joint venture partnership between Centerre Healthcare and Lancaster General Hospital. She brings twenty years of progressive management experience in strategic planning, hospital operations, fiscal performance, and sales and marketing management in the acute rehabilitation and long term acute care (LTACH) industries. Tammy possesses a wide range of expertise in multi-facility and regional oversight having served as chief executive officer as well as area manager for several hospitals. She also has experience on the development side having planned and directed the pre-opening activities of rehabilitation hospitals in Texas, Kansas, Florida and Indiana.
Zandra Farris, President— Methodist Rehabilitation Hospital
Zandra brings over 25 years of rehabilitation experience as well as extensive expertise in clinical management, quality program development, and healthcare operations to her position at Methodist Rehabilitation Hospital. She began her career as an Occupational Therapist and has served in many senior level positions in the inpatient and outpatient divisions for HealthSouth in Houston. She also served as surveyor for CARF (Commission of Rehabilitation Facilities), as well as provided consulting to multiple hospitals and outpatient surgery centers in preparation of JCAHO surveys. Throughout her career in healthcare, Zandra has demonstrated her ability and advocated the provision of superior clinical services combined with fiscal responsibility and business growth.