Dr. Dan Hendrickson, MD, FCCP, Medical Director
Dr. Hendrickson received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, then continued his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio followed by fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine at University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver Colorado. Dan is board certified in Critical Care Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, and Internal Medicine. Dr. Hendrickson comes to Southwest Idaho Advanced Care Hospital with over 16 years of experience in pulmonary and critical care medicine. He has also served as an LTACH Medical Director for three years at Regency Hospital in Odessa, Texas. Dr. Hendrickson has an extremely broad background including academic medicine and hospice and palliative care.

Cynthia Newsome, CCRN, CPTC, JD, Chief Operating Officer
Ms. Newsome comes to this position with 17 years of critical care experience as a registered nurse in a neuro-trauma ICU. After leaving the ICU, she went on to devote her career to internal organ donation through Pacific Northwest Transplant Bank in Portland, Oregon. Working on the "donation" side of internal organ transplant proved to be both challenging and rewarding. Ms. Newsome recently graduated from Concord Law School in Los Angeles, California. As a RN JD, Ms. Newsome offers a unique perspective to Southwest Idaho Advanced Care Hospital as well as a commitment to provide excellence in a new service offered to the Boise community.

Dwayne Newkirk, Human Resources Director
Mr. Newkirk has 25 years of management experience, the past 15 years in Human Resources. Dwayne holds a BBA with a Human Resources emphasis from Boise State University and held the SPHR certification from the Human Resources Certification Institute. His previous work history includes being the City of Boise, Idaho's first Employee Relations Manager and he was Human Resources Director for Swift & Company's Beef and Lamb plants in Greeley, CO. Dwayne also teaches Human Resources as an adjunct instructor for Boise State University.

Mars P. Patricio, Jr., Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Patricio has nearly 30 years of healthcare management experience, with an emphasis in the financial operation of short-term and long-term acute care hospitals. Prior to Ernest Health, Inc., Mr. Patricio was connected with the largest for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals in Southern and Northern Nevada. He has demonstrated accomplishments in the effective and efficient management of accounting, finance, and service departments as well as the planning, coordination, and implementation of company-wide projects, policies, and procedures. He was associated with Carlos J. Valdez & Co., CPA's, the corresponding firm in the Philippines of Touche Ross & Co., CPA's (now known as Deloitte & Touche). He is a member of the HFMA and a graduate of the University of the East in Manila, Philippines with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration major in Accounting.