Reynold J. Jennings is a director on board of Apollo Health Street since January 2008.

He has had extensive experience as a hands-on hospital operating executive for nearly 32 years. He last served as Vice Chairman of Tenet Healthcare Corporation until his retirement in July 2007. Previously, he served as Chief Operating Officer responsible for operational oversight of Tenet’s 69 core acute care hospitals and other facilities in 13 states.

Jennings joined Tenet in 1997 as Senior Vice President of the company’s Gulf States Region, and moved up as the Executive Vice President of Tenet’s former Southeast Division. He also served as President of the company’s former Eastern Division.

Jennings began his health care career in 1972 at Hamilton Medical Center in Dalton, Georgia, starting as a pharmacist and rising to the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. From 1983 to 1991, he served as Chief Executive Officer of a number of acute care hospitals, including Doctors Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Ga., Clearwater Community Hospital in Clearwater, Fla., and Palms of Pasadena Hospital, a St. Petersburg, Florida facility. In 1991, he was promoted to Senior Vice President responsible for the company’s acute care hospitals in Texas, Missouri and West Florida.

In 1993, he left Tenet to join Ramsay Health Care Inc. as Chief Operations Officer and played a key role in stabilizing the financial performance of that New Orleans-based hospital company, eventually becoming Chief Executive Officer.

He has a master of science degree in business administration from the University of South Carolina at Columbia and a bachelor of science degree in pharmacy from the University of Georgia.

Jennings is a Life Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and served as a board member and officer of the American Federation of Hospitals. He served as Chairman of the Board of two Tenet affiliate corporations – Tenet Choices Inc., a Medicare HMO, and the Cleveland Clinic Hospital in Weston, Fla., which was jointly owned by Tenet and The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Additionally, Jennings is a past Chairman of the Florida League of Hospitals and the St. Petersburg, Fla., Hospital Council.