Ascension forms post-acute care division

ST. LOUIS - Ascension has formed a new Post-Acute Services Division and named Daniel “Danny” Stricker as its president, according to McKnight's Senior Living. Stricker is COO of subsidiary Ascension Living. Effective July 1, he will provide strategic and operational leadership to the new division, which will include Ascension Living's post-acute services—independent living, assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing, short-term rehab—as well as home health, hospice, palliative care, home infusion and HME services. Ascension Living has more than 50 senior living communities across 11 states and the District of Columbia. In all, Ascension operates more than 2,600 sites of care.