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Healthcare executive Susie Dudley was recently named Chief Executive Officer of Kindred Hospital Lima, a 26-bed specialty hospital that provides long-term acute care and rehabilitation to medically complex patients. Read more here.

Experienced healthcare operations executive Adam Darvish has been named ScionHealth’s new Senior Vice President of Specialty Hospital Operations for the West Region of its national network of long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs). In this role, Darvish will oversee strategic and business operations for ScionHealth’s 20 Kindred Hospitals in California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Washington, and El Paso, Texas. These hospitals provide specialized long-term acute care and rehabilitation services to medically complex patients. Read more here.

Specialty hospital and nursing leader Katie Gibbs, MSN, BSN, RN, was recently named Chief Executive Officer of Kindred Hospital North Florida, a 58-bed specialty hospital that provides long-term acute care and rehabilitation to medically complex patients. Read more here.

Experienced healthcare executive Colin P. O’Sullivan, DHA, FACHE, has been named ScionHealth’s Senior Vice President for Specialty Hospital Operations for the East Region of its nationwide health system, which includes Kindred Hospitals.

Long-term acute care hospitals (LTCHs or LTACHs) such as Kindred Hospitals play a critical role in caring for some of our nation’s sickest and most medically complex patients. To help inform policy discussions in Congress about improving access to long-term acute care and supporting the patients who need it, Kindred joined other industry stakeholders in developing new Long-Term Acute Care Hospital Reform Policy Principles. Read more here.

Kindred Hospital San Antonio, which provides specialized long-term acute care and rehabilitation to medically complex patients, on Thursday hosted members of the San Antonio and Bexar County healthcare community for a Brain Injury Awareness Month informational session and facility tour, highlighting the important role specialty hospitals like Kindred can play in recovery. Read more here.

Under new leadership, Kindred Hospital Dayton on Wednesday held a grand reopening of its 46-bed inpatient behavioral health unit, which provides psychiatric care and therapy to adults 18 and over in Dayton and surrounding communities who are suffering from serious mental health conditions and symptoms. Read more here.

Vearnail Rowe Herzog, a healthcare leader with more than 30 years of experience, including 13 years as a specialty hospital chief executive officer, recently became CEO of Kindred Hospital St. Louis South. At Kindred, Herzog oversees all strategic planning, finances, operations, and personnel for the 38-bed long-term acute care hospital (LTACH) that specializes in treating medically complex patients recovering from serious injury or illness, including individuals who come directly from the ICU.

ScionHealth is proud to share more about one of the leading female executives in its company – Nakia Tremble, Senior Vice President of Operations for Specialty Hospitals in the Mid-America Region.

Kathy Kelly, who has more than 25 years of healthcare experience in the Chicagoland area, was recently named the Market Chief Executive Officer for Kindred Hospitals of Chicago. In her new role, Kelly oversees all strategic planning, finances, operations and personnel for Kindred’s four specialty, long-term acute care hospitals in the market: Kindred Hospital Chicago – North, Kindred Hospital Chicago – Northlake, Kindred Hospital Chicago Lakeshore, and Kindred Hospital Sycamore.