David J. Bender Joins the Lewin Group
To: HEALTH/MEDICAL EDITORS
Contact: Pat McMurray of the Lewin Group, +1-202-530-4667
FALLS CHURCH, Va., May 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — David J. Bender, a senior executive with the health science advisory services practice at Ernst and Young, has joined the Lewin Group as a Vice President, leading the firm’s provider practice. In his role at Ernst and Young, Bender led the strategic market-planning competency for community hospitals and systems, academic medical centers, and long-term care providers.
Bender’s almost 30 years of experience in health care includes directing over 100 health care strategic planning engagements, as well as medical staff plans, ambulatory services plans, new business opportunity analysis, and feasibility studies. His international experience includes facility development work in Dubai, UAE, Mexico City, and Lima, Peru.
“David Bender will help us build on our core safety net expertise while expanding our focus to help a broad range of clients identify and evaluate programs that will make them more market-oriented and more profitable,” said Lisa Chimento, Senior Vice President of The Lewin Group. “With the changes that we anticipate from value-driven purchasing and health reform initiatives in the coming years, his experience creating strategies to improve performance and target opportunities will be invaluable in helping our clients succeed.”
Bender has also held executive positions at North Charles Hospital, Baltimore, MD, and at the Maryland Health Care Consortium/ Health Systems and Services in Baltimore. Bender received his B.A. from Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas and his M.S.P.H., Health Services Management, from University of Missouri-Columbia.
The Lewin Group is a premier national health care and human services consulting firm with more than 35 years of experience finding answers and solving problems for leading organizations in the public, non-profit, and private sectors. More than 100 consultants at the Lewin Group are drawn from industry, government, academia, and the health professions. Many are national authorities whose strategies for health and human services system improvements come from a personal experience with imperatives for change.
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