Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> June 3, 2002

David Geller – Home Health Corporation Of America Inc

DAVID S. GELLER is President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Home Health Corporation of America, Inc., one of the largest independent for-profit home nursing companies in the United States. HHCA provides high quality skilled nursing services to adult and pediatric patients in the mid-Atlantic states and Florida. Mr. Geller has been President and CEO since 1999. He joined HHCA as Senior Vice President'Chief Financial Officer in 1998. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Geller was Senior Vice President'Chief Financial Officer of Physician Support Systems, Inc., a provider of business management services to physicians and hospitals. From 1982 to 1996, Mr. Geller was a Senior Manager with Deloitte & Touche, a Big Five accounting firm, where he primarily worked on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, bankruptcies and troubled debt restructurings and other specialized transactions. Mr. Geller is a Certified Public Accountant and member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accountants. He is HHCA's primary representative to the National Association for Home Care, is a past Director and Treasurer of the Boys and Girls Club of Stamford, Connecticut, and a past member of the International Franchise Association. He has lectured and spoken widely and interacts extensively with business and civic organizations. Mr. Geller holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from The Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Vanderbilt University, which he attended on a partial academic scholarship. Profile
TWST: Would you give us a history and a quick overview of the company?

Mr. Geller: The company was founded in 1977 in Pennsylvania as a

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