HFS Consultants' Principal Joins ABL Organization

Orange, CA — May 29, 2009 — Scott Frost, a Principal and Director of Support Services Consulting at HFS Consultants, has joined the Adaptive Business Leaders Organization (ABL). As part of California’s leading vertical-industry Chief Executives’ Organization, ABL Members provide one another with executive leadership coaching through its confidential, professionally-facilitated, peer-CEO Advisory Board Round Tables, executive learning workshops, network of CEO peers, and expert resources.

Scott brings 25+ years of experience in healthcare provider environments - including multiple facility, teaching, and research/tertiary care organizations - to HFS, which he joined in 2005. HFS Consultants provides strategic advisory, feasibility, reimbursement, accounting, operations, compliance, clinical assessment, cost control, and planning services to hospitals, clinics, skilled nursing, assisted living, and multi-level senior care facilities and other healthcare providers. With offices in Los Angeles, San Diego County, and Oakland, the firm includes seven principals and over 100 consulting and administrative staff who have provided services to more than 300 organizations.

Prior to HFS, Scott headed Contract Support Services, a healthcare materials management consulting firm that was acquired by HFS in 2005. Earlier in his career, Scott worked for Childrens Hospital Los Angeles; Mercy Healthcare Sacramento; Mercy Medical Center in Redding, California; and Washoe Health Systems in Reno, Nevada. He earned BS and MBA degrees from the University of Nevada, Reno.

About the Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Organization
ABL supports the needs of its Member CEOs by providing a place for top-level executives to draw on the experience, knowledge and skill sets of their peers in a vertical industry, personal advisory board – “multi-coach approach” – setting.

The core component of the CEO Membership experience is the group Round Table meeting. Members meet once a month for a half-day with a group of peer CEOs, Presidents, COOs and Division General Managers from non-competing companies, all from the same industry (healthcare, technology or life sciences), in a trusted and confidential board room-like setting, which allows ABL Members to tackle topics and enhance their decision making and business performance. Topics include: developing and honing new business strategies and best practices, new lines of business, “A-players” on the management team, and an effective board of directors, as well as understanding trends in new markets, mergers and acquisitions, compensation, and other “hot” topics brought to the Round Tables by the Members themselves.

ABL Members also gather several times a year at workshops and conferences to exchange ideas and connect with other chief executives beyond their own CEO peer groups. In effect, ABL Members serve as one another’s business coaches within the Round Tables and are encouraged to connect and leverage their co-Member peers’ particular skills and expertise for additional leadership coaching, one-on-one, outside of their monthly group meeting. In addition, each Round Table’s facilitator also serves as an objective business advisor, offering executive and industry insights and advice.

 ABL's Chief Executive Leadership Development Round Table program is currently offered in California's Greater Los Angeles, Orange and San Francisco County areas. More information about the ABL Organization can be found at http://www.abl.org .