August 6, 2007
CONTACT: Marc Kaplan
marc.kaplan@uphs.upenn.edu
Michael Soisson Named Executive Director of Good Shepherd Penn Partners
(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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