Nexus president receives national award

Dr. John W. Cassidy, president and CEO of Houston-based Nexus Health Systems, has been awarded The Maxwell J. Schleifer Distinguished Service Award.

The national award is presented to an individual or individuals who are considered to be active advocates for their local special needs community and who have helped improve the lives of the 54 million Americans with disabilities, their families and caregivers.

Previous honorees include Eunice Kennedy Shriver for her work with Special Olympics and Dr. Jose Cordero, assistant surgeon general and director of the National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta.

Cassidy co-founded Nexus Health Systems in 1998. The company's facilities in Texas and California have been recognized nationally in the field of neurobehavioral rehabilitation.

NHS to build new Woodlands facility

Houston Business Journal - July 16, 2004

Nexus Health Systems has broken ground on a 40,000-square-foot free-standing medical specialty hospital in The Woodlands, TX.

The long-term acute care, 54-bed facility will be called Nexus Specialty Hospital and is scheduled to open its doors in the second quarter of next year, says Dr. John W. Cassidy, NHS president and CEO.

NHS will hire 100 individuals for full-time positions once the new facility is complete, Cassidy says.

The hospital will be located in Shenandoah, TX at 110 Vision Park Blvd., not far from the company's current facility in The Woodlands.   Once the new hospital is completed, both facilities will operate as a single hospital with two campuses.

Nexus Specialty Hospital will offer inpatient adult medical and rehabilitative care and include a number of intensive care unit beds and high observation/telemetry rooms. The new hospital will also offer in-house diagnostic capabilities, including laboratory, portable X-ray, ultrasound, ventilator units and an endoscopic procedure room.

Houston-based NHS will lease the facility from Alliance Development.

With 21 beds, the original facility in The Woodlands has "historically taken care of folks who have had longer-term medical needs that are complex and are often technologically dependent," Cassidy says. "But we have outgrown it."

Cassidy co-founded NHS, which specializes in neurobehavioral rehabilitation, in 1992. The company employs 400 people, 300 of whom are in Houston.  NHS's 2003 revenue totaled $29.3 million.

NHS currently operates three medical specialty hospitals: Nexus Specialty Hospital, HealthBridge Children's Hospital in Houston and HealthBridge Children's Hospital in Orange, CA.   The company also operates a residential rehabilitation campus called Neurobehavioral Resources in Conroe, TX.