Raleigh -- Kenneth L. Burgess, a Partner with Poyner & Spruill LLP in Raleigh, has been appointed to the legal committee of the American Health Care Association (AHCA) for a 3-year term.

Ken is a long term care attorney advising clients on a wide variety of legal planning issues arising in the skilled nursing facility setting, assisted living setting, and other spheres of long term care. He is a frequent national lecturer and author of industry manuals, national trade journal magazine articles and similar training tools. He serves Poyner & Spruill clients by focusing on legal issues impacting the long term care and health services sector.

The American Health Care Association (AHCA) is a non-profit federation of affiliated state health organizations, together representing more than 10,000 non-profit and for-profit assisted living, nursing facility, developmentally-disabled, and subacute care providers that care for more than 1.5 million elderly and disabled individuals nationally.

The legal committee of the AHCA is made up of select attorneys from across the country who specialize in long term care. They develop policy recommendations, review requests for financial assistance from providers around the country in legal cases with national implications, and help set policy for the Association's legal strategy nationally.

Ken graduated from the University of North Carolina with a B.A. in 1979, and received his J.D. cum laude from Campbell University Law School in 1984. He can be reached at 919-783-2917 or kburgess @poynerspruill.com.