Daniel Mendelson, M.D., associate chief of medicine and director of palliative care for Highland Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, NY, will serve as 2017 council chair of the AHA’s Section for Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation. Kenneth Bowman, CEO of Van Matre Healthsouth Rehabilitation Hospital in Rockford, IL, is council chair-elect and will become chair in 2018. The council works with the AHA on public policy and member service strategies for post-acute and continuing care providers. For more on the constituency section and council, see the AHA news release.

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