CareMeridian CEO, Jim Ashby, Joins ABL Organization

Orange, CA — June 29, 2009 — Jamison (Jim) Ashby, President and CEO of CareMeridian, LLC, 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.

CareMeridian, LLC provides high quality, medical management and restorative care to individuals with catastrophic injuries or illnesses. Founded in 1989, CareMeridian provides individualized patient care plans delivered in a residential-like, non-hospital setting with 1:4 staff-to-patient ratios. Today, the company serves over 200 patients in facilities throughout California, and in Nevada; future plans call for locations in Arizona, Colorado and Texas. CareMeridian provides 24-hour skilled nursing care; state-of-the-art medical and therapy technology and services; proven treatment experience for brain injuries and spinal cord injuries; and experience in treating medically complex cases requiring ventilators, oxygen, tracheotomy tubes, gastrointestinal tubes and intravenous therapy.

Jim brings to CareMeridian more than 14 years of experience in healthcare in both the public and private sectors. During the early 1990s, he was pivotal in growing South Coast Rehabilitation Services from a private, regional provider into a nationally recognized company with $100 million in annualized revenue. In 1995, he was promoted to President and CEO of South Coast and served in that position until the company was purchased in 1997. From there he served as COO at SMS, a $100 million national IT services company. Jim earned his Bachelor Degree at the University of Redland and his Master's at San Diego State University.

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 .