SAN DIEGO, Aug. 15, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Total Population Health Management company American Specialty Health Incorporated (ASH) announced that Woodrin Grossman has joined the company’s Board of Directors. In addition to serving as a director, Grossman will also chair the organization’s Audit and Finance Committee. ASH’s CEO and co-founder George DeVries, Jan DeVries, Christobel Selecky, and Bud Volberding are also ASH board members.
Woodrin Grossman joins ASH after working for PricewaterhouseCoopers for 37 years, including 27 years as a partner of the firm and retiring in 2005 as the chairman of the firm’s national and global health care practice. As chairman, Grossman developed and implemented the firm’s health care practice strategic direction, including service delivery and brand that appealed to Fortune 500, tax-exempt health systems and fast-growing, entrepreneurial health care providers, including health services, insurance, and medical supply companies. The practice grew to include some of the largest and most prominent investor-owned and tax-exempt health systems, academic medical centers, and health insurers.
Grossman’s deep understanding of audit and accounting issues makes him well-suited to serve as ASH’s chairman of the company’s Audit and Finance Committee. He has served as the lead audit partner for audits of Fortune 500 and other companies and dealt with the gamut of audit and accounting issues.
In addition, Grossman has served as director and senior vice president, strategy and development, of Odyssey HealthCare Inc. Currently, Mr.�Grossman also serves on the Board of Directors of Kinetic Concepts, Inc., IPC: The Hospitalist Company, and MedCath Corporation.
“We are very pleased that Mr. Grossman has joined our Board of Directors as both a director and Chair of our Audit and Finance Committee,” said George DeVries, ASH’s chairman, CEO and co-founder. “His deep understanding of finance and the health care industry provides invaluable insight for the ASH Board of Directors.”
For more information on ASH and its leadership team, visit ASHCompanies.com.
About American Specialty Health and Healthyroads
American Specialty Health Incorporated (ASH) is a national health and wellness company that provides prevention and wellness services, specialty network management programs, and fitness and exercise services to health plans, insurance carriers, employer groups, and trust funds. Based in San Diego, ASH has more than 800 employees and serves over 25.9 million members.
Healthyroads, Inc., a total population health management program, offers a wide range of personal health solutions�including award-winning telephone-based lifestyle and condition coaching programs, member engagement promotion programs (EngageHealthyroads.com), incentive management programs, competitive challenges, worksite wellness programs, and/or an integrated online health improvement portal, Healthyroads.com. Healthyroads offers programs to more than 6.1 million members nationally.
For more information about ASH health and wellness programs, visit ASHCompanies.com or call (800) 848-3555. Follow us on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/ASHCompanies or www.Twitter.com/Healthyroads!
CONTACT: Meredith Mulligan
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