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Gonzalez Parrilla named senior vice president at Good Shepherd Rehabilitation
Cris Collingwood//October 18, 2021
Gonzalez Parrilla named senior vice president at Good Shepherd Rehabilitation
Cris Collingwood//October 18, 2021//
Astrid Gonzalez Parrilla has joined Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network as senior vice president, Clinical Operations.
An occupational therapist by training, Gonzalez Parrilla oversees Good Shepherd’s adult and pediatric inpatient rehabilitation hospitals in Allentown and Bethlehem, which include a long-term acute-care hospital in Bethlehem, home health and long-term care facilities for nearly 160 residents, and the admissions department. She serves on Good Shepherd’s Senior Leadership Team.
A native of Puerto Rico, Gonzalez Parrilla arrived at Good Shepherd and the Lehigh Valley from Brooks Rehabilitation in Florida, where she served as vice president of operations for the Brooks – Halifax Health partnership. In that role, Gonzalez Parrilla oversaw the strategic direction, fiscal management and day-to-day operations of the physician practice, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility, adult and pediatric outpatient services and acute-care therapy departments.
Before joining Brooks in 2016, Gonzalez Parrilla held various positions at Lee Memorial Health System in Fort Meyers, Florida. She began as an occupational therapist and moved to director of quality and education, leading efforts to develop quality, safety and patient experience initiatives across the post-acute network.
Gonzalez Parrilla is a graduate of the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, with a degree in occupational therapy. She earned a master’s degree in business administration from Columbia Southern University and a doctorate in occupational therapy from Rocky Mountain University of Health Care Professions in 2014.
She is board certified as a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), a Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) surveyor, and a member of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives (NALHE) and the National Society of Leadership and Success.
