Chris Chirumbolo is a determined, thoughtful and caring service provider who leads all of the Therapy and Rehabilitation Service offerings throughout the Carespring network of facilities. Carespring is on the leading edge regionally and nationally in the area of rehabilitation services, largely due to Chris’s impact upon direct care, customer service, organizational leadership, and corporate culture. Mr. Chirumbolo brings a significant mix of management gifts and therapy expertise to the staff, residents and families of Carespring.     

In his role as Corporate Vice-President for Rehabilitation Services, Chris has four primary areas of responsibility. First, he oversees the therapy supervisors at each of the Carespring facilities. Second, he is responsible for the training and quality control of every occupational therapist and physical therapist in the company. Third, he assists each facility with any unmet needs with regard to staffing or direct care. Further, he serves as a member of the Carespring Corporate team, staying constantly abreast of all matters under the Carespring umbrella of services and lending his expertise to them.

Prior to coming to Carespring as an employee, Mr. Chirumbolo served four different clinical internships in his college coursework, including his final internship at Carespring’s Highlandspring of Ft. Thomas where he learned the treatment and business aspects a physical therapist required to be successful in managing a rehabilitation department for a skilled nursing facility. He is not only intimately aware of Carespring policies and procedures and a leader of resident care processes, but he also has intimate knowledge of the facilities, having served as a therapist and director of rehabilitation services at Villaspring of Erlanger and Eastgatespring of Cincinnati, Carespring’s largest facility, where they achieved record levels of resident care and therapy outcomes.

Mr. Chirumbolo holds a Master’s degree in Physical Therapy from the College of Mount St. Joseph’s Department of Health and Human Sciences. Prior to that, Mr. Chirumbolo earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Rehabilitation Sciences, graduating Summa Cum Laude.  Most recently, Chris achieved his Geriatric Clinical Specialty (GCS) Certification from the American Physical Therapy Association. His is one of the seven recognized specialties, measured according to years of experience, proven competencies and testing.  He teaches as an adjunct professor for the College of Mount St. Joseph in the topics of Geriatrics and Prospective Payment System with relation to reimbursement for skilled nursing facilities.  Currently, he is the Clinical Coordinator of Clinical Education (CCCE) for Carespring with relation to the College of Mount St. Joseph, the Ohio State University, the University of Cincinnati, Xavier University, Cincinnati State, and Sinclair College.

Chris was born in Buffalo, New York before growing up in Mariemont, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati where he helped advance his high school baseball team to the state championship game. He, his wife, Jaime, a social worker, and son, Samuel, live in Cold Spring, Kentucky, where they built their home in 2006.