Kenneth
E. Klingensmith, is President and
CEO of Health Associates, Inc. which he co-founded in 1999.
Ken through his firm represents and supports healthcare
providers as a business partner in attending to the business of
medicine. Ken has worked in
the healthcare industry since 1990 and has held both clinical
and administrative positions gaining expertise in practice
management, strategic planning and budgeting, contract
negotiations, managed care
operations, IPA management, health plan operations and benefits
administration.
Ken serves on the Board of Directors
as Chairman of the
Board for Tertiary Care
Network, Inc. and is the Immediate Past President and Board
Member of the American Organ Transplant Association.
Ken has been a repeat speaker for the American Association of
Colleges of Nursing, the National Conference for Nurse
Practitioners and at multiple academic teaching institutions and
hospital medical staffs on topics of revenue operations and
practice management with publication in Nursing Economics and
DocTalk.
Prior to the creation of Health
Associates, Ken served as Assistant Vice President of Business Development
for the medical school faculty practice plan of the over five
hundred physicians trained in more than ninety two medical and
surgical specialties at the University of Texas Health Science
Center - Houston. Ken served in a management role with
healthcare operations for HMO Texas, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Sierra Health Services, Inc. (NYSE:SIE), a national accredited
healthcare insurance company. Under his consulting firm, Sierra
Health Services has since on two occasions contracted with Ken
for work in both Texas and Nevada. The firm has too held a
consulting contract with the University of Texas Health Science
Center - Houston, since 1999. Ken first worked in hospital
administration in a management position with the Sisters of
Charity of the Incarnate Word, St. Joseph Hospital, a 792 bed
facility in Houston, Texas after completing administrative work
at the Doctors Hospital at Nelsonville, a rural 325 bed critical
access hospital in Ohio. Ken started his career in healthcare as
a Nationally Registered Emergency
Medical Technician serving on both a non-emergency transfer and
911 service in Southeast Ohio.
Ken earned a Bachelor of Science in Health - Cum Laude from Ohio
University with a degree in Health Services Administration, concentration
in Acute Care and minor in Business Administration. Ken serves
as a mentor with the Bobcat Mentor program for both
alumni and students of the University. Ken is licensed
as a Group I insurance agent with the Texas Department of Insurance
and Kansas
Insurance Department.
