Kenneth E. Klingensmith, is President and CEO of Health Associates, Inc. which he co-founded in 1999.  Ken impacts the operational performance of a healthcare providers' clinical practice in applying technology solutions, organizational management, work flow improvement and brings financial integrity that results in improved efficiency and positive impact on clinical revenues. 

Ken has built a 20 year track record of success in the healthcare industry with experience in both clinical and administrative positions.  He has developed and provided best practices leadership in medical practice management with expertise in revenue operations, strategic planning, budgeting, contract negotiations, managed care operations and medical benefits administration.  He represents and supports clinical practices as a business partner in “attending to the business of medicine”. Ken is goal-driven, proactive, and highly effective in building teams and creating an organizational structure that promotes operational efficiency to enable revenue growth for a medical practice.  

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, Clinical Scholars review and DocTalk.  He serves as the chairman of the National Users Advisory Board for an international healthcare software company.

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 a member of the Medical Group Management Association and American College of Healthcare Executives.