Kindred Board Announces Death of Board Member John Short
April 13 2015 - 4:30PM
Business Wire
The Board of Directors of Kindred Healthcare, Inc. (“Kindred” or
the “Company”) (NYSE:KND) mourns the loss of Board member John H.
Short, Ph.D., who was killed on April 10 in an aircraft accident in
central Idaho.
“Throughout John’s service to Kindred, we have benefited from
his commitment to the patients we serve as well as the vast
knowledge and expertise he brought to the Board,” said Phyllis R.
Yale, Chair of Kindred’s Board. “Personally, I value the friendship
and strategic counsel that John shared with me. Our thoughts are
with his wife, Mary, and the rest of his family in this difficult
time.”
“The untimely passing of John is a loss to the entire healthcare
community,” said Benjamin A. Breier, Kindred’s President and Chief
Executive Officer. “We will miss his appreciation of, and
dedication for, the care our teams provide each day and the
personal friendships he offered to so many throughout the
industry.”
Dr. Short had served as President and Chief Executive Officer of
RehabCare from May 2004 until June 2011, when Kindred acquired
RehabCare. Dr. Short had served as a director of the Company since
June 2011. Dr. Short also served as a principal of Short
Consulting, LLC, a firm that provides business consulting services
to a broad range of healthcare providers.
About Kindred Healthcare
Kindred Healthcare, Inc., a top-85 private employer in the
United States, is a FORTUNE 500 healthcare services company based
in Louisville, Kentucky with annual revenues of approximately
$7.2 billion1. At December 31, 2014, on a pro forma basis to
include Gentiva and Centerre, Kindred through its subsidiaries had
approximately 103,000 employees providing healthcare services in
2,872 locations in 47 states, including 97 transitional care
hospitals, 16 inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, 90 nursing
centers, 22 sub-acute units, 634 Kindred at Home hospice, home
health and non-medical home care locations, 100 inpatient
rehabilitation units (hospital-based) and a contract rehabilitation
services business, RehabCare, which served 1,913 non-affiliated
facilities. Ranked as one of Fortune magazine’s Most Admired
Healthcare Companies for six years, Kindred’s mission is to promote
healing, provide hope, preserve dignity and produce value for each
patient, resident, family member, customer, employee and
shareholder we serve. For more information, go to
www.kindredhealthcare.com. You can also follow us on Twitter and
Facebook.
1Revenues were computed by combining the twelve months ended
December 31, 2014 data for Kindred, Gentiva Health Services, Inc.
(“Gentiva”), which was acquired by the Company on February 2, 2015,
and Centerre Healthcare Corporation (“Centerre”), which was
acquired by the Company on January 1, 2015.
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