Boston- Maureen Banks, Chief Operating Officer for the Boston based Spaulding Rehabilitation Network has been selected to serve on the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Section for Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation Governing Council. The Governing Council advises the AHA on public policy issues of concern to the post-acute and continuing care providers. The twenty four member council represents executives from among the nation's leading hospitals representing rehabilitation, acute long-term care, skilled nursing, home health and continuing care services.

Banks has been COO of the Spaulding Rehabilitation Network since 2008 and also serves as President of Spaulding Hospital North Shore and Spaulding Hospital Cambridge, both long-term acute care facilities as well as Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Cape Cod an Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF). Prior to those roles she has worked throughout New England as a nursing and healthcare leader in a variety of administrative positions.

The AHA's Section for Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation represents over 2,000 institutional members of the AHA. The Boston based Spaulding Rehabilitation Network is a regional and national leader in rehabilitative care with four inpatient facilities, two skilled nursing facilities and twenty-three outpatient centers located throughout Eastern Massachusetts. Banks will serve on the governing council for a two year term.

About the Spaulding Rehabilitation Network

A member of Partners HealthCare, The Spaulding Rehabilitation Network includes Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital-Boston (main campus), a 196-bed facility, as well as Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Cape Cod. Additional locations include the two long-term care facilities Spaulding Hospital Cambridge and Spaulding Hospital North Shore and two skilled nursing facilities, as well as twenty-three outpatient sites throughout the Greater Boston area. Spaulding is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School as well as the official rehabilitation hospital of the New England Patriots. Spaulding is the only rehabilitation hospital in New England continually ranked since 1995 by U.S. News and World Report in its Best Hospitals survey with a #5 ranking in 2011. For more information, please visit www.spauldingnetwork.org.