Executive Vice President
ADVION (formerly National Association for the Support of Long Term Care)
Washington, DC, United States
Cynthia Morton, MPA, serves as ADVION's (formerly NASL) Executive Vice President and has led the organization since 2010 to advocate for high quality care for the patients NASL members serve through working to advance legislative and regulatory policy. ADVION is a non-profit advocacy group representing providers of both ancillary services and products to the long-term and post-acute care sector. ADVION member companies provide speech-language pathology, physical, occupational and respiratory therapy; portable x-ray/EKG and clinical lab services, health information technology including electronic medical records, billing and point-of-care IT systems and other software solutions that serve the majority of LTPAC providers; and products such as complex medical equipment and additional specialized supplies for long term and post-acute care settings nationally.
Previously, Cynthia served as the Vice President for Political Affairs for AHCA/NCAL. For more than a decade with AHCA/NCAL, she represented the long term care profession before Congress and the Washington health care community. Previously, Cynthia served as the special assistant to the director of the Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services (the Virginia Medicaid agency), where she covered issues such as Medicaid managed care, long-term care, the children’s health insurance program, provider reimbursement rate setting and strategic planning activities. Cynthia has also served as an appointee in the Offices of Governors Douglas Wilder and Gerald Baliles of Virginia. Earlier she worked in the health care and government relations practice area of the law firm Mezzullo and McCandlish, representing the nursing home sector before the state legislature.
In 2020, Cynthia was inducted into the McKnight’s Women of Distinction Hall of Honor for her leadership in the long term care sector during her career. Cynthia graduated from James Madison University with a Bachelor of Science in political science and holds a Master of Public Administration degree from Virginia Commonwealth University.
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REHAB-1 - Rehab Therapy: Annual AHCA/ADVION Rehabilitation Therapy Program
Sunday, October 1, 2023
7:30 AM – 12:30 PM MT