Michael K. Schonbrun?is the CEO of Balfour Senior Living, a 三级片在线 he founded in 1997 in Louisville, Colorado. Prior to founding Balfour, Schonbrun has had a wide-ranging career in health care operations and policy.
He spent five years (1973-79) as staff to the Governors of Ohio and Colorado advising them on matters pertaining to health care costs, quality and access, including two years as the where he supervised the nursing home and assisted living licensure division, the state’s health planning apparatus, and the certificate of need program. During this time, he authored articles on related topics for and .
He served for 13 years (1979-1991) at National Jewish Health – three years as Chief Operating Officer and ten years as President and CEO. During his tenure at , the nation’s leading respiratory medical, treatment and research center (per U.S. News and World Report), the institute achieved its first operating surplus in decades, doubled its research funding from the National Institutes of Health and tripled the size of its endowment fund.
Following his time at National Jewish, he served as the senior vice president at Rocky Mountain Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada (1991-93), where he managed the plan’s network of doctors and hospitals as well as the plan’s three HMOs. Subsequent to that, he served as Executive Vice President for , the nation’s largest hospice 三级片在线. In 1996 and 1997, he was a consultant on several international healthcare projects for the venture capital firms, .
Schonbrun has chaired the , the Health Care Focus Group of the , the , the, the Environmental Sub-Committee for the 2002 Colorado Olympic Committee and has served on the boards of the , the, National Jewish Health and the .
A native of New York City, He holds a B.A. degree (political science) from and a J.D. degree from the . He is married to his business partner Susan Juroe and is the father of three sons.