Tom L. Anderson This is Me

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1. 1. Our Leadership

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   Published on: 4/21/2008   Last Visited: 4/21/2008

   Dan Slipkovich co-founded Capella Healthcare with Tom Anderson in April 2005 and serves as Chief Executive Officer for the Company.
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   Tom Anderson co-founded Capella Healthcare with Dan Slipkovich in April 2005 and serves as President for the Company.
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   In his role as President for Capella, Tom oversees acquisitions, information technology, human resources and corporate operations.
   
   Prior to co-founding Capella, Tom was Senior Vice President of Acquisitions and Development for Province Healthcare. During his tenure at Province, Tom completed transactions on 18 hospitals. Most of these hospitals were not-for-profit hospitals or governmental hospitals. Tom's strategy was to actively seek local partnerships with Province to ensure the local community had a meaningful role in the hospital once ownership was transferred to Province. In all cases, the transactions Tom delivered provided more capital dollars to the local facility, more physicians to the community and new tax dollars to local government. It is this model of community-focused acquisitions that Tom has brought to Capella.
   
   Tom began his career in 1975 in public service with the Tennessee Division of State Audit. After that, he joined HCA, first as an internal auditor, then in roles with increasing responsibility at HCA hospitals in Fort Worth and Nashville. In 1980, Tom left HCA to become Chief Financial Officer of Baptist Medical Center in Montgomery, Alabama. Baptist is a major tertiary hospital, which along with its competitor, dominates the hospital market in central Alabama. In 1983, Tom joined Harton Regional Medical Center and in 1984 was named its Chief Executive Officer. In 1990, he was named Chief Financial Officer of Clarksville Memorial Hospital in Clarksville, Tennessee.
   
   Tom joined Community Health Systems in 1992, first as Vice President for Financial Operations and then as a division Chief Executive Officer. In his role at Community, Tom managed the operations of 14 hospitals and oversaw the successful integration of Hallmark Healthcare into the operations of Community Its hospitals were returned to profitability after Community acquired them. Tom left Community in 1998 to join Province as Senior Vice President of Acquisitions and Development. Tom left Province in 2005 to co-found Capella.
   
   Tom holds undergraduate degrees from Freed-Hardman University and Tennessee Technological University and a Master of Business Administration from Auburn University in Montgomery. He is also a Certified Public Accountant. Tom is married to Jade Anderson.
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   Working with Tom Anderson, Andy brings this community-focused approach to Capella.

2. 2. Gorman Health Group – Tom L. Anderson

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   Published on: 5/9/2008   Last Visited: 5/9/2008

   Tom L. AndersoN, MBA Executive Vice President
   
   Tom L. Anderson is a 35 year veteran of health care and consumer products industries. He spent eleven years in various management positions for PepsiCo in its Purchase, New York headquarters and in field offices around the United States. While at Pepsi Cola, Tom was key in the development of the "Pepsi Challenge" program which is recognized in most business schools as a classic case study in marketing. Tom was also instrumental in the development and subsequent role out of the fast food industry marketing program that feature tear off tabs on soft drink cups. This promotional technique has become a standard in fast food restaurant marketing. Earlier in his career in consumer products, Tom managed the first test market for a product called "Vaseline Intensive Care" hand lotion that became the market leader and remains the market leader today.
   
   In the late eighties, Tom left PepsiCo to become a partner in an LBO of Denny's Restaurants where he was a Senior V.P. of Marketing for a Division of Denny's. The Company was sold two years later and Tom decided to make a career change and went to work for FHP (Now part of Pacific Care) in California. While at FHP he was Senior VP of Marketing; then moved into operations where he was COO of health plans in Nevada. In 1995 Tom was recruited by United HealthCare and moved to the corporate office in Minneapolis to serve as head of its new Government Programs division. That Division is today known as "Ovations". Tom built the new organization from $300 million that had come to United HealthCare via the acquisition route to $2 billion in just five short years, and grew membership from 50,000 to nearly 500,000 during that period.. The growth was both organic and inorganic. He eventually moved from operations to Strategic Planning where he ended his career with United HealthCare in 2001 when he thought he had retired.
   
   In 2000, John Gorman, who had worked with Tom while serving as Deputy Director of Medicare services began recruiting Tom when he saw an opportunity to add an experienced health care executive to his new consulting practice which is today known as Gorman Health Group. Tom joined partnership with John in 2001 and has shared in the satisfaction of exceptional growth and success of the enterprise.
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   Tom received a master of business administration from Pepperdine University and a Bachelor of Science degree in political science from South Dakota State University. He holds certificates in Healthcare Management and HMO Underwriting from University of California, Irvine, as well as a Nevada Life and Health Insurance License.

3. 3. Dept of Health & Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson to Keynote Medicare Congress

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   Published on: 2/9/2004   Last Visited: 3/3/2008

   Tom L. Anderson Principal, Gorman Health Group, LLC, and Former Senior Vice President of Strategies and Planning, United Healthcare, Washington, DC