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Louisville, KY-based Kindred Healthcare has Appointed Scott Blanchette as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Kindred is a leading diversified post-acute healthcare provider of transitional care hospitals, rehabilitation services. Kindred Healthcare`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.
About the Person
Previously, Blanchette served as senior vice president and CIO for Vanguard Health Systems, which was acquired last year by Tenet Healthcare. He also served as CIO for Healthways and held senior management positions at Stanford University Medical Center and Ernst & Young. He is a founder and president of Hangar9 Solutions, a professional services firm that provides IT services to small and mid-sized hospitals and health care systems. As CIO, he is responsible for the technology strategy, execution, and business operations of departments across Vanguard’s $7B portfolio of assets, including hospitals and hospital systems, ambulatory clinics, health plans, lab companies, and more than fifty related health and health care business ventures. Scott previously served in senior management roles at Stanford University Medical Center, Ernst & Young, and Booz-Allen & Hamilton. Prior to corporate life, he spent 10 years in the US military. For six years Scott served on the staff of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council’s to President Bush and Obama. He currently serves as an advisor to the Heritage Health Investment Fund.
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