David A. Roush
L. Christine Bassett
Jeffrey M. Landa
Jonathan Banton
Barbara J. Wyser

David A. Roush

Mr. Roush is an attorney and healthcare consultant. In May, 1997, he co-founded Roush & Associates, a firm which specializes in providing management, development and advisory services to clients involved in senior care and post-acute services. Roush & Associates has an in-depth knowledge and expertise in working with New England not-for-profit and smaller proprietary clients.

Prior to founding Roush & Associates, Mr. Roush served as Managing Partner at ADS Consulting. Mr. Roush worked with more than 300 clients including hospitals, government agencies, assisted living operators, nursing homes, lenders, not-for-profit organizations and a variety of healthcare organizations. He has specialized in strategic planning, regulatory affairs, managing work outs, project management advice and hospital senior care network development. His work has included assisting more than 20 hospitals establish senior care programs including transitional care and sub-acute units.

Prior to joining ADS Consulting, Mr. Roush served as Director of the Patient Protection Unit of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. In 1995-1996, he served as an appointed advisor to the Department of Health and Human Services OBRA Impact Assessment Advisory Group.

Mr. Roush is the co-author of two manuals: Development and Managing Physician Networks: Business and Legal Strategies, published in 1996, and Integrated Senior Care: Assisted Living and Long-Term Care Manual, published in 1994.

A frequent speaker and author, Mr. Roush's presentations have included numerous speeches to the National Health Lawyers Association and many long-term care organizations. He has drafted legislation and regulations relating to hospital and long-term care issues.

Mr. Roush is a graduate of Columbia University and Boston University School of Law.

L. Christine Bassett

Christine Bassett is a Principal and co-founder of the Roush/Radius companies. Ms. Bassett manages the firm’s operational services. Her professional career includes more than 35 years of health care experience. She is the President of the firm’s post-acute management company, Radius Management Services.

Roush & Associates was formed in 1997, and provides consulting and strategic planning services to New England healthcare providers with a concentration on not-for-profit institutions. Radius Management Services was founded in 1999 and manages its owned skilled nursing facilities, as well as skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities for other providers, including not-for-profit providers.

Prior to joining Roush/Radius, Ms. Bassett worked at the ADS Group in Newton, MA. Her work included serving as Managing Director of ADS Consulting, Vice President for Operations for ADS Berkshire, and Vice President of Marketing. As Vice President for the Daley Hotel Group, she was responsible for operations of three Boston hotels. She directed a $40 million renovation and refurbishment program, and developed comprehensive marketing and public relations strategies for the group as well as serving as Executive Vice President of Operations. As Director of Operations for JD Associates, Inc., she had executive responsibility for the operations of luxury, multi-level nursing and retirement facilities.

Ms. Bassett has provided private consultation to long-term facilities, CCRCs, and assisted living facilities. She has also taught healthcare administration at three universities in the greater Boston area. She holds a B.A. from Boston College/Newton College and an Ed.M. from the University of Massachusetts.

Jeffrey M. Landa

Jeffrey Landa is a Principal in Roush & Associates. He is a Certified Public Accountant with 20 years experience in the field of healthcare finance.

Prior to joining Roush & Associates, Mr. Landa was the Senior Vice President of Finance for the Olympus Healthcare Group. In this capacity he was responsible for the appropriate recognition and maximization of revenue, third-party reimbursement issues, management of the financial impact of regulatory changes and product/service line costing.

As the Assistant Vice President of Finance for the ADS Group, Mr. Landa developed protocols and provided financial and reimbursement advisory services to more than 20 hospital-based transitional care units, throughout their proposal, development, start-up and operational phases. In addition, he was responsible for the operating budgets for all nursing facilities, management of all third-party reimbursement, cost reporting, and internal audits, company wide.

Recognized as an expert on third-party reimbursement in the post-acute marketplace, Mr. Landa was appointed to the American Healthcare Association's PPS Committee that worked directly with HCFA in developing and implementing Medicare's prospective payment system. He has spoken at numerous seminars hosted by groups in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut on financial and reimbursement issues and the opportunities presented by regulatory change. He is the author of a Mass Media article on the financial opportunities of hospital-based skilled nursing facilities, and is past chairman of the Massachusetts Society of CPA's Long-Term Care Committee.

Mr. Landa holds a BS in Accounting from Bentley College.

Jonathan Banton

Jon Banton is a partner in the firm and an officer and director of the company's senior housing and development division. He oversees the firm's development and project investment and ownership activities. Mr. Banton has over 23 years of experience developing and financing continuing care retirement communities, assisted living communities and nursing homes. He provides the firm's consulting clients with development and finance services.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Banton formed his own consulting and development company, Brookline Development Group, in 1997. Mr. Banton's Brookline Development consulting clients included Beth Abraham Health Services in New York City and the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA).

Prior to forming Brookline Development Group, he was a founding stockholder in two healthcare company initial public offerings. Mr. Banton is nationally known for his expertise in developing and financing projects for seniors. He spent eighteen years with Herbert J. Sims & Co., the last ten of which he led the company's investment banking group providing over $2 billion worth of financing for not-for-profit and for-profit providers of nursing and housing for seniors.

Mr. Banton holds a B.A. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Barbara J. Wyser

Barbara J. Wyser is Managing Partner for Roush & Associates, Inc. Ms. Wyser manages all R&A's consulting services. Working closely with R&A colleagues and other individuals delivering product to consulting clients, she is directly involved with every proposal and engagement of contracted services undertaken by R&A. Ms. Wyser is accountable for overall communication and quality control and oversees corporate communications. She delivers selected consulting services directly, particularly in the areas of public policy, regulatory affairs, advocacy and public relations. Her primary client focus is on not-for-profit senior service organizations in Massachusetts and throughout New England.

Ms. Wyser has over 25 years experience in public affairs, development, community relations and management in both the private and public sectors.

Prior to joining Roush & Associates, Ms. Wyser served as Director of Public Affairs for the ADS Group, a Massachusetts healthcare company specializing in the development and management of eldercare facilities. Here she promoted the national and state visibility of the company, developed media relationships to enhance public exposure, researched and monitored regulatory and legislative activity related to healthcare and wrote policy papers, articles and speeches to facilitate these activities.

Ms. Wyser holds a B.A from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and is an alumna of the Graduate Program for Women in Politics at Boston College.