Simione Healthcare Consultants Appoints Wayne Regan to Lead Interim Management Services

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Oct 02, 2015, 08:30 ET

HAMDEN, Conn., Oct. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Simione Healthcare Consultants has announced the appointment of Wayne A. Regan as Director of Interim Management Services. Regan has 15 years of progressive leadership and consulting experience in home care, hospice, palliative and long-term care, and more than a decade of experience in sales and marketing of health care products and services. Most recently, he served as senior vice president of MetroWest HomeCare & Hospice, Tenet Healthcare, where he led regional operational efforts for post-acute services. He also was a principal with Homecare & Hospice Solutions, an independent consulting firm in post-acute services focusing on strategic planning, business development, feasibility studies, interim management and turnaround operations.

Wayne Regan of Massachusetts has been appointed as Director, Interim Management Services, Simione Healthcare Consultants, where he will assist home care and hospice organizations with experts and resources to effectively manage leadership transitions.

In his new role at Simione, Regan will work to further develop the firm's interim management services to assist post-acute organizations with leadership transitions that support strong business performance and strategic growth. Simione has a longstanding reputation for developing a wide network of experienced leaders in all areas of clinical, financial and administrative home care and hospice operations. With interim executives from Simione, home care and hospice organizations are in the hands of experienced industry experts with access to all of Simione's expertise and resources. Agencies facing a vacancy, retirement or other management change can move forward with Simione's strong, effective leadership, minimizing any disruption and guiding recruitment for the right permanent candidate to support long-term goals.

Regan's broad experience in business development and sales also includes serving as vice president of business development with Amedisys Home Care and Hospice - Northeast Region and Beacon Hospice, both in the Northeast, during 2009-2013. Regan led business development for Amedisys Northeast region's 90 locations providing home care, hospice and inpatient residences, including a team of nine AVPs and 150 business development staff. At Beacon, he grew the entity from $85M to $125M through targeted market growth in multiple post-acute markets, assisting with its acquisition by Amedisys. From 2001-2009 with Masonic Health System of Massachusetts, he served as a system executive vice president and president of its homecare and hospice entity, Overlook Visiting Nurse Association, leading operations and business development for post-acute services. During 1991-2001, he served as a national director of sales for Vencare Health Services (now Kindred), Louisville, Kentucky, focusing on national sales and marketing efforts in pharmacy, infusion therapy, medical supply/DME and respiratory services for elder and long-term care, and as regional director with NeighborCare of the Northeast.

An active collaborator in post-acute care services and advocacy, Regan currently serves as president of the board for the Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts, and previously served as a member of the regulatory committee of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

Regan earned a B.S. in pharmacy from Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio.

For more information about interim management services at Simione, call 800-949-0388

Contact: Linda Wiseman
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800-949-0388

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