Highland Hospital Doctor to Lead American Hospital Association’s Section for Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation Council

The American Hospital Association (AHA) has announced that Daniel Mendelson, M.S., M.D., FACP, AGSF, CMD, will be chair of the AHA’s Section for Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation Council. Dr. Mendelson is the Associate Chief of Medicine and Director of Palliative Care for Highland Hospital.

 

The council comprises CEOs and senior executives from the nation’s leading hospitals representing rehabilitation, acute long-term care, skilled nursing, home health and continuing care services. As chair, Dr. Mendelson will lead the section’s council on public policy issues of concern to post-acute and continuing care providers and AHA member service strategies. 

Mendelson helped establish UR Medicine Geriatrics Group, which provides primary medical care at several nursing homes and assisted living facilities; he has served as the group’s associate medical director as well as medical director of several nursing homes. He co-founded and continues to co-direct the Geriatric Fracture Center at Highland Hospital and lectures worldwide about topics related to fragility fractures and co-management. He is the founder of the Palliative Care Consultation Service at Highland Hospital and was one of the first certified palliative care physicians in the U.S. Mendelson is the William and Sheila Konar Family Professor of Geriatrics, Palliative Medicine, and Person-Centered Care in the Division of Geriatrics at the UR School of Medicine & Dentistry.

 

Mendelson serves or has served as a member of several local, not-for-profit boards of directors, as well as the boards of UR Medicine Home Care, and Lifespan of Rochester, which helps elders take on the challenges of aging successfully. He has also served on the ethics, quality, and nominating committees of the American Geriatrics Society as well as the ethics committee of the NY Chapter of the American College of Physicians. A graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology in chemistry, Dr. Mendelson received his master’s degree in biophysics and his medical degree from the University of Rochester where he also completed his residency in Internal Medicine and a Fellowship in Geriatrics.