RehabCare senior VP Gross to exit
RehabCare Group Inc. said Kevin Gross, senior vice president of hospital operations, plans to resign effective June 4.
Gross has accepted the position of president of the Oklahoma division of Ardent Health Services, a role he held prior to his tenures at Universal Health Services and RehabCare.
He has led RehabCare’s hospital division since July 2008.
Brock Hardaway, president and chief operating officer of Triumph HealthCare, which RehabCare recently bought for $570 million, has been promoted to RehabCare executive vice president, assuming leadership of the hospital division and reporting directly to RehabCare President and Chief Executive John Short.
Hardaway joined Triumph in 2005 and was appointed to manage the combined company’s long-term acute care hospital portfolio following RehabCare’s acquisition of Triumph in November 2009. He will oversee division operations from Triumph headquarters in Houston.
St. Louis-based RehabCare (NYSE: RHB) is the fourth-largest, post-acute hospital operator and the third-largest, long-term acute care hospital provider in the nation, with 28 long-term acute care hospitals and six inpatient rehabilitation facilities in 13 states. The company has more than 18,000 employees and reported $869.4 million in 2009 operating revenue.