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With over 35 years of experience in the health care industry, Dan Dietz currently serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer for CHI Health at Home. Dan joined the organization in 1999 as Chief Operating Officer for American Nursing Care, one of CHI Health at Home’s lines of business. After five years with American Nursing Care, Dan was appointed as the President and Chief Executive Officer of CHI Health at Home in April of 2004. Dan has spent the last 12 years exercising is natural management abilities and his desire to serve others as the organization’s leader. Prior to joining CHI Health at Home, Dan worked for Apria Healthcare, a national home care company from 1985 to 1999. Dan held several executive positions with Apria and its predecessor companies, lastly as the Regional Vice President for Ohio, Kentucky, and Michigan. From 1978 to 1985, Dan worked in the health field in clinical, sales and sales management roles. Dan has a BS in Management and Economics from Northern Kentucky University. In Dan’s current role with CHI Health at Home, he is committed to providing the best quality and comprehensive home-based services to the communities CHI Health at Home serves, nationwide. With over 70 locations throughout nine states, CHI Health at Home is committed to providing comprehensive, affordable care for every patient we serve. Over the past six years, Dan has successfully grown CHI Health at Home at over 25% each year. The notable growth for CHI Health at Home, in conjunction with Catholic Health Initiatives, involves an expansion and diversification of an already successful business model; positioning CHI Health at Home on the cutting edge of home health care. You can learn more about CHI Health at Home and our distinct lines of business by visiting our company website at: www.chihealthathome.com.

Brenda Nevidjon, RN, MSN, FAAN is Chief Executive Officer of the Oncology Nursing Society, a professional organization of more than 37,000 member. She is Professor Emerita at Duke University School of Nursing where she taught in the Nursing and Healthcare Leadership specialty. She has been a leader in service and education settings and her career is distinguished by her being the first nurse and first woman to be chief operating officer of Duke University Hospital. She was in the inaugural class of the Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Executive Program and completed the Wharton/Johnson & Johnson Executive Fellows Program. Through diverse clinical and administrative oncology experiences in Canada, Switzerland and the United States, she has devoted her energy to bridging practice settings and academic environments to advance patient care, creating innovative work environments, promoting scholarship in practitioners, and developing leaders. Ms. Nevidjon has extensive publications, including four books, twenty book chapters and more than 20 journal articles. She is a past president of the Oncology Nursing Society and is fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, which recognizes Nursing's most accomplished leaders in education, management, practice and research.

Jill Krause is a Chief Executive Officer at Forest View Hospital.