Kenneth Bowman to Lead AHA's Section for Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation Council

WASHINGTON (January 17, 2018) – The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced that Ken Bowman, Division Vice President, Operations - IRF, Kindred Rehabilitation Services at Kindred Healthcare, will be chair of the AHA’s Section for Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation Council.

The council comprises CEOs and senior executives from the nation’s leading hospitals representing rehabilitation, acute long-term care, skilled nursing, home health and continuing care services.

As chair, Ken will lead the section’s council, which provides leadership and guidance to AHA on public policy issues of concern to post-acute and continuing care providers and AHA member service strategies.

Ken Bowman has over 20 years of leadership and administrative experience in major academic medical centers and most recently served for eight years as the CEO of Van Matre HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital in Rockford, Ill. He started his health care administrative career at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago as the senior organ transplant procurement coordinator and also served as vice president of business development at Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital in Wheaton, Ill., and executive director of rehabilitation services at The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. He is a licensed nursing home administrator in the State of Illinois and in 1996 he published “Resources Manual for The Licensure Examination for Nursing Home Administrators.” Ken opened the first rehabilitation outpatient clinic within a long-term care facility in the state of Illinois with Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital and Rest Haven Christian Services.

Ken Bowman has represented the State of Illinois on Capitol Hill as an Illinois Delegate with the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging and he continues to lecture at national conferences on key topics and challenges within the delivery of health care services.

Derrick Jones, CEO, Lovelace UNM Rehabilitation Hospital, Albuquerque, N.M., will serve as chair-elect and will assume the role of chair in 2019. Daniel Mendelson, M.D., associate chief of medicine, Highland Hospital, Rochester, N.Y., is the immediate past chair. 

Newly elected members to the council include: Jean Clark, chief executive officer, Kindred Hospital Seattle-Northgate, Seattle; Alfred D’Angelo, Jr., board chair, Magee Rehabilitation Hospital, Berwyn, Penn.; Eric Garrard, chief executive officer, Emory Rehabilitation Hospital, Atlanta; Linda Krach, M.D., vice president, Medical Operations, Allina Health, Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute, Minneapolis; Amit Mohan, Ph.D, president and CEO, Barlow Respiratory Hospital, Los Angeles.

The new council members join the following current members: Jason Bernd, vice president, Novant Health Charlotte Orthopedic Hospital, Charlotte, N.C.; Joan Doyle, executive director, Penn Home Care and Hospice Services, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.; Michelle Gittler, M.D., medical director, Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital, Chicago; Lori Jarboe, CEO, HealthSouth Lakeview Rehabilitation Hospital, Elizabethtown, Ky.; Yameeka Jones, CEO, Vibra Hospital of San Diego, San Diego; Cynthia Kelleher, president and CEO, University of Maryland Rehabilitation & Orthopedic Institute, Baltimore; Robert Larrison, Jr., president, Carolinas Rehabilitation, Charlotte, N.C.; Mary Moscato, president, Hebrew Rehabilitation Center, Boston, Mass.; Douglas Struyk, president and CEO, Christian Health Care Center, Wyckoff, N.J.; and Jose Vargas, M.D., medical director, West Gables Rehabilitation Hospital, Miami.

Contact:   Marie Johnson, (202) 626-2351
                  Colin Milligan, (202) 638-5491

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About the Section for Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation

AHA’s Section for Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation supports hospital providers of post-acute services, including rehabilitation, long-term acute, skilled nursing, home health and continuing care services as they build systems of care to improve the health status of their communities. The section is guided by a council composed of leaders representing some of the country’s leading hospitals and post-acute care providers. Council members serve as representatives of their member peers as they advise the AHA on member service strategies, public policy issues, advocacy positions and emerging issues, as well as serve as a channel back to the post-acute care field.

About the AHA

The AHA is a not-for-profit association of health care provider organizations and individuals that are committed to the health improvement of their communities. The AHA is the national advocate for its members, which include nearly 5,000 hospitals, health care systems, networks, other providers of care and 43,000 individual members. Founded in 1898, the AHA provides education for health care leaders and is a source of information on health care issues and trends. For more information, visit the AHA website at www.aha.org.