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, Chief Financial Officer
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. Mr. Blank 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.
Operations and Clinical
Jean Davis, Senior Vice President of Operations
Jean Davis has 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry, most of which were devoted to overseeing the clinical programming and outcomes and case management functions within the inpatient rehabilitation industry with CEO experience of a new start up hospital. She also holds a Master Degree in Education with emphasis in counseling and a Bachelor of Science Degree in 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 operations of Centerre’s joint venture hospitals.
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.
Development
James R. Salandi, Senior Vice President of Development
James Salandi has over 25 years of healthcare experience. His career has included over 20 years of healthcare facility acquisition and development with 10 years of rehabilitation specific experience. His early experience was in medical surgical hospital acquisition and development, as well as managed care company and physician practice acquisition. After entering the post-acute sector, he held positions of senior vice president of development in a large national hospital company and executive vice president of a regional rehabilitation provider which concluded a successful IPO and the eventual sale to a large national provider. Mr. Salandi directs and coordinates the acquisition and development activity of the company.
John Dille, Vice President of Development
John Dille has more than 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry, primarily in the areas of business development, acquisitions, and strategic and product line planning. While he was with the nation’s leading proprietary hospital and surgery center companies, and as president of a boutique securities firm, John developed or acquired more than two dozen healthcare provider business ventures nationwide, nearly all structured as partnerships. He has served as the director of strategic planning for a leading regional non-profit hospital system, and has provided business development services for two medical real estate companies.
Darrell Simpson, Vice President of Development and Implementation
Darrell Simpson has over 23 years of healthcare design and construction experience. He has held senior management positions with two of the nation’s more active healthcare builders providing project management, business development, and division operations leadership. He has also served nine years as vice president of program management for a national healthcare provider overseeing master planning, project development, and design and construction services. Darrell has managed the development of more than 13 greenfield rehabilitation healthcare projects across the country.
Unit Contract Management
Gregg Stanley, Vice President of Unit Contract Management
Gregg Stanley has over 30 years of healthcare management experience. Mr. Stanley began his career as a hospital administrator, a path that led him to develop and manage a very successful rehabilitation hospital in his home state of Maine. A former Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities surveyor, he has focused his career on positive measurable outcomes for the patient as well as the facility. Mr. Stanley has multi-facility management experience in several healthcare areas and has helped found successful public companies in both the ambulatory surgery center environment as well as the physical rehabilitation sector.
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 Health. 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.
Barbara Mobley, Chief Executive Officer — Methodist Rehabilitation Hospital
Barbara joined Centerre Healthcare in February, 2008 as Controller of Methodist Rehabilitation Hospital, a joint venture partnership between Centerre Healthcare and Methodist Health System. She brings 10 years of healthcare background, with the last 6 years being with acute rehabilitation. Barbara served as chief executive officer for an inpatient rehabilitation hospital for 2 and half years at which time she opened a Home Health and had oversight of 5 satellites, including a pain clinic, sleep lab and three therapy OP clinics. She has worked with many physician and healthcare systems prior to turning her passion towards rehabilitation.
Charisse Oland, Chief Executive Officer — Rehabilitation Hospital of Wisconsin
Charisse is a successful healthcare executive serving many years as a CEO including 18 years at a children’s rehabilitation hospital with inpatient, outpatient and outreach programs. She joined RHOW in the spring of 2008, bringing vast experience with strategic planning and business development and establishing a solid vision for the future. Charisse has long been a patient and community advocate, having served in numerous professional and community leadership roles including the boards of director’s for the state hospital association, the Chamber of Commerce and United Way. As a life long learner she is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives and served 10 years as a preceptor for the Master’s in Healthcare Administration program for the University of Minnesota. Charisse is currently completing a doctorate in leadership with the University of St. Thomas, focusing on the role of leadership in creating facilities that improve health patient outcomes and work experience for staff.