Robert G. Peirce

Bob Peirce is President and CEO of Ocadian Hospitals and Care Centers, a regional chain of Acute Rehabilitation Hospitals and Skilled Nursing Facilities. Establishing this company represents the culmination of a 33-year career in the health care industry.

Following his graduation from Providence College in 1972 and a time in Naval Officer Candidate School and flight training, Mr. Peirce joined Hillhaven Corporation in 1973, where he spent the next 18 years. At Hillhaven, he rose through the ranks to Vice President of Operations for the Far West Region, where he was responsible for 62 Healthcare facilities in five Western states with over 6,000 employees, caring for 6000 patients. This operation had a revenue base of approximately $300 million dollars.

In 1991 Alta Bates Health System hired him to form and operate a management company to service company-owned Skilled Nursing Facilities in the San Francisco Bay Area.

In 1994, Alta Bates sold the facilities to a management buyout group led by Mr. Peirce, creating Ocadian Hospitals and Care Centers (formerly Guardian Health Group). Ocadian began with approximately $28 million in revenues, and peaked in 2002 at approximately $125 million. In the past 2 years, the company has been focused on moving away from day-to-day healthcare operations and becoming a holding company-selling or leasing its properties to various larger operators as part of a plan to move Mr. Peirce towards retirement.

Bob is a member of the American College of Healthcare Administrators and served as head of the California Multi Facilities Group and on the Board of Directors for the California Association of Health Facilities.