Jill Bemis, who has worked with state and local health-care organizations since 1974, has been named CEO of Children's Clinics for Rehabilitative Services.
Bemis has served as long-term-care administrator for Pima Health System, part of the Arizona Health Care Containment System, the state health plan for families in poverty. She also helped develop the Arizona Long Term Care System, which pays for nursing home care and other support for frail Arizonans of all ages.
She also worked for several years with behavioral health programs in Tucson and Phoenix.
Since 1994, Bemis has worked as a consultant to government agencies, nonprofit groups and businesses including the Tohono O'odham tribe, Chicanos por la Causa and Traveler's Aid.
Working as a consultant enabled her to care for her aging parents, now deceased, Bemis said Monday.
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Like much of her previous work, Children's Clinics is a state-funded program for clients with special needs; in this case, children with cerebral palsy, spina bifida, heart disease, brain injury and other serious medical conditions.
"I feel like I've returned to my roots," Bemis said. "I just felt very gifted that this came up at a time in my life when I could take advantage of it."
Bemis succeeds Tammy Stoltz, who was CEO of the clinics through last July, and Rhonda Dean, a former El Dorado Hospital administrator who served as interim CEO after Stoltz moved out of the state.
The nonprofit Children's Clinics, at 2600 N. Wyatt Drive on the northwest corner of the Tucson Medical Center campus, is a partnership of TMC, University Medical Center and University Physicians Healthcare.
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