Karen Abbott

Karen Abbott is AAC’s Chief Compliance Officer. Karen is responsible for the management and oversight of AAC’s Compliance Program, including administration of HIPAA, Privacy & Security functions, implementation and review of Compliance standards, policies and procedures, management of Compliance education and training, monitoring and auditing the effectiveness of the Compliance Program, and oversight of any Compliance related investigations. In her role she also is responsible for reporting to Senior Management and the AAC Board of Directors on Compliance activities and Compliance Program effectiveness as well as making recommendations for response to and prevention of certain risk as appropriate.

Before joining AAC, Karen served as Chief Compliance Officer, Sr. Vice President and Sr. Counsel at Diversicare Management Services in Brentwood, TN—a $144 million public company that owns and operates centers and skilled nursing facilities, which provide skilled nursing, short term rehab, and long term care primarily in the Midsouth & Southeast regions of the country. Prior to joining Diversicare, she was Chief Administrative Lawyer, Vice President & Assistant General Counsel at IASIS Healthcare—a healthcare services company with $3 billion in annual revenue that operated acute care hospitals, outpatient centers and physician clinics across the country as well as a managed care division with more than 600,000 covered lives that operated health plans in three states. She received her undergraduate degree from Carson Newman University. While working at various startup and large healthcare companies in the greater Nashville area, Karen obtained her law degree from Nashville School of Law.