People: Skilled Healthcare Group Inc (SKH)

Mr. Bruce A. Yarwood is Independent Director of Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc., since February 17, 2011. From August 2005 through December 2010, Mr. Yarwood served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Health Care Association (AHCA), the nation’s association of long term and post-acute care providers. From 1989 until joining AHCA in 2005, Mr. Yarwood was a partner with Helmsin Yarwood & Associates, a management consulting and issues advocacy firm that served as a primary lobbyist for AHCA. During the 1970s Mr. Yarwood held executive positions with the California Department of Health and was responsible for the California Medicaid program, also known as Medi-Cal. Mr. Yarwood also serves on the board of directors of RCS Oxygen Company, a respiratory supplies, oxygen delivery and respiratory therapy support company, of CFG Community Bank, a commercial bank in Maryland, and of the Foundation for the Future of Aging, a charitable foundation dedicated to improving the lives of older Americans and the disabled. Mr. Yarwood has over 36 years of management, operational and advocacy experience in the long term care industry.