(PHILADELPHIA) – Good
Shepherd Penn Partners (GSPP), a joint venture of Good
Shepherd Rehabilitation Network and the University of Pennsylvania Health
System, has named Michael
J. Soisson as Executive Director.
As the top
leader for GSPP, Soisson will provide strategic oversight and operational leadership
to the post-acute care network. He will oversee creating a culture of performance
excellence, staff accountability and evidence-based decision making.
Soisson has
vast experience in rehabilitation and long-term acute care hospital services.
Prior to joining GSPP, he was a senior health-care consultant specializing in
post-acute care. He previously served as Vice President for Hospital Development
for Centerre Healthcare and senior consultant for post-acute services for Mitretek-Gill/Balsano
Consulting. Soisson’s career also included positions as: Chief Executive
Officer of Select Specialty
Hospitals in Greensburg, Camp Hill and York, Pennsylvania;
System Vice President for Conemaugh Health
System in Johnstown, Pennsylvania;
and COO/CEO of HealthSouth
Rehabilitation Hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Soisson received
a bachelor’s degree from Loyola College
in Maryland and master’s
degree in exercise physiology from the University
of Pittsburgh. He also earned
a master’s degree in health care administration from Medical
College of Virginia.
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Scheduled to open in July 2008, Good
Shepherd Penn Partners (GSPP) brings together the synergies
of two national leaders in rehabilitation to provide excellent,
comprehensive post-acute care in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
region. GSPP is a joint venture of Good Shepherd Rehabilitation
Network based in Allentown Pennsylvania and the University of
Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) based in Philadelphia. GSPP
will provide specialized inpatient long-term acute care and physical
rehabilitation for patients discharged from medical, surgical
and intensive care units. In addition, GSPP will operate outpatient
rehabilitation centers as well as rehabilitation therapy services
for UPHS’s three hospitals and three skilled
nursing facilities. For more information on GSPP, visit www.GoodShepherdRehab.org/press-room/index.asp.
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