Salt Lake City, Utah (PRWEB) August 21, 2014
AVEC Health Solutions, LLC, (http://www.avechealth.com) is pleased to announce the addition of Kerry Gillespie as Chief Executive Officer. With over 30 years of healthcare management experience, Gillespie brings an extremely robust background to AVEC. His experience includes multiple executive management positions with prominent industry leading organizations across the country.
Most recently Kerry served as President of Triad Isotopes, Inc. a private nuclear pharmaceutical company with more than 60 locations across the U.S., the nation’s second largest nuclear pharmacy company.
Prior to joining Triad, Gillespie served as Executive VP, Operations & Finance, with Health Management Associates (HMA), a $6 billion investor owned operator of 71 hospitals whose stock was listed on the NYSE. In this role, he was directly responsible for the oversight of payer relations, patient financial services, physician practice management, operating budgets.. Additionally, he played a prominent role in strategic planning, joint ventures and physician practice acquisitions and integration.
Before joining HMA, Gillespie served as CFO with Radiation Therapy Services, Inc., (now known as 21st Century Oncology), understood to be the world’s largest freestanding radiation therapy services organization. In this role, he was responsible for all financial functions of this $600 million privately held company.
Gillespie has also been CFO of Ardent Health Services, a $1.8 billion operator of acute care hospitals and other healthcare services including a large physician practice organization and a statewide health plan in the Southwestern U.S. Additionally he was Vice President of Group Operations at Community Health Systems, the second largest investor owned operator of acute care hospitals in the United States.
Gillespie is an alumnus of EY, one of the Big Four public accounting firms. He is a Certified Public Accountant, a Chartered Global Management Accountant, a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and is a Fellow of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA). Mr. Gillespie holds a B.B.A. in accounting from the University of Georgia.
About AVEC Health Solutions
AVEC Health Solutions is based in Salt Lake City, UT, and is a leading provider of Revenue Cycle Management and Coding solutions to the Healthcare industry. AVEC believes that access to community-based healthcare is a patient right and therefore provides services to support this objective. AVEC provides cutting-edge solutions that enable and support the effectiveness of healthcare organizations to serve their respective communities through delivering cost effective approaches designed specifically for their situation. Healthcare organizations are able to preserve, grow and prosper through implementation of AVEC’s solutions. You can learn more about AVEC by visiting http://www.avechealth.com.