Celtic announces Vice President of Business Development

elias Celtic announces Vice President of Business DevelopmentCeltic Healthcare is pleased to announce the promotion of Mike Elias, Former Regional Director of our Northeastern PA Division (Hospice Community Care and HCC Home Health) to Vice President of Business Development for Celtic Healthcare.

Mike brings a wealth of experience to his new role.  With a healthcare career spanning three decades, Mike has a wide range of experience in acute care, public health, and home health and hospice care. In addition to leading HCC’s day-to-day home health and hospice operations since 2002, his accomplishments have included physician recruitment and retention and a significant list of valued-added services and therapies focusing on patient comfort and satisfaction, including the development of a free-standing hospice inpatient unit. Mike completed his undergraduate studies at King’s College and Penn State University and graduate studies at Marywood University.

Tonya Miller, Regional Director for Central PA and Maryland, will take on the additional responsibility of operational leadership in Northeastern PA.  Tonya has played an instrumental role at Celtic Healthcare in many ways in addition to her administrative leadership role.  Tonya coordinates the educational pathways for rehab services internally and provides external educational services related to a variety of topics in home health care, rehabilitation, and management. Tonya received her Masters in Physical Therapy from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science in 1992 and her Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Temple University in 2007. Tonya is currently enrolled in a PhD program for administration and leadership at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

The promotions of Mike and Tonya are in line with Celtic Healthcare’s new mission of Innovative Healthcare at Home and newly developed company
vision to be a sales driven organization that cares for more patients, delivers the right services and delivers them well while providing fast and friendly service that exceeds our customers’ expectations.  They also align with Celtic’s culture of promoting the best from within and
acknowledging that corporate culture is a key attribute that drives leadership at Celtic Healthcare.

As Mike enters his new role, he will be joining CEO Arnie Burchianti and Jodi McKinney, Director of Corporate Communications, in a company-wide campaign of regional town hall visits to promote and share Celtic Healthcare’s new vision and gain insight from regional team members in the field on how to better serve Celtic’s homecare and hospice customers.

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