Illinois Executive Chosen As New NYAHSA President/CEO

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ALBANY, NY (08/20/2009)(readMedia)-- Dennis R. Bozzi has been named the new president and chief executive officer of the New York Association of Homes & Services for the Aging.

Bozzi, who has been president of Life Services Network of Illinois for two decades, was chosen from an impressive field of candidates from across the country, said Tom Holt, chairman of NYAHSA's Board of Directors and President/CEO of Lutheran Social Services Group in Jamestown, N.Y.

"Out of a very strong field of local and national candidates, Dennis immediately rose to the top of the list," Holt said. "He led his organization brilliantly through the same transition in Illinois that we're on the brink of here in New York, with the same types of challenges and changes we're facing."

Bozzi's entire career is deeply rooted in aging services. After serving as director of grants management for the Chicago Department on Aging, he became executive director of the Metropolitan Chicago Coalition on Aging, and six years later, he took the helm at Life Services Network of Illinois, then known as the Illinois Association of Homes for the Aging. During Bozzi's 22-year tenure, the organization grew from 180 members and a $300,000 annual budget to a membership of 550 with an annual budget of $4.5 million.

Bozzi recognized more than a decade before the rest of the country that the expansion of aging services would take place outside the walls of existing nursing homes. He led the planning process that transformed his organization into Life Services Network, a nationally recognized senior living and services association that, like NYAHSA, represents the entire spectrum of aging care services.

Bozzi created and implemented innovative programs and projects and built the association's PAC from the ground up. He brings a unique entrepreneurial approach to association leadership along with a history of innovation and reasoned, balanced risk-taking that anticipated trends and seized opportunities that have greatly benefitted LSN.

Holt said Bozzi will assume responsibilities Oct. 1.

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Founded in 1961, the New York Association of Homes & Services for the Aging (NYAHSA)is a not-for-profit 501(c)(4) organization that represents nearly 600 not-for-profit and public continuing care providers, including nursing homes, senior housing, adult care facilities, continuing care retirement communities, assisted living and community service providers, serving thousands of frail and elderly New Yorkers. It is affiliated with the American Association of Homes & Services for the Aging.