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David Friedler, LMHC, LPCC, LCMHC, MPH, has been a psychotherapist and administrator in the long-term care, clinical, and behavioral health treatment arena for over fifty years. David Friedler's substantial clinical and administrative expertise has been employed as a clinician, clinical director, or administrator in psychiatric hospitals, drug and alcohol residential treatment facilities, sober houses, group homes, assisted living facilities, residential treatment centers, and nursing home care. He is licensed as a Nursing Home Administrator in Massachusetts and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Massachusetts. He is a Certified Nursing Home Administrator Emeritus, a Fellow of the American College of Health Care Administrators, a Life Member of The Academy, ACHCA, and a Mentor for the ACHCA. Mr. Friedler has a particular and primary specialty in the regulatory standard of care governing wrongful injury claims arising in drug and alcohol residential settings, psychiatric hospitals, group homes, assisted living facilities, residential treatment centers, and sober houses, as well as nursing homes. Specifically, Mr. Friedler has direct administrative expertise in the federal and state regulations and clinical treatment facility policies and procedures that either directly establish or are patterned upon the applicable national and state standards of care. This expertise encompasses the standards and requirements of accreditation, licensure, and certification agencies — including the Joint Commission and the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) — as they apply to residential treatment facilities and skilled nursing facilities. Mr. Friedler has substantial knowledge and experience regarding state and national standards of care as applied by accreditation, licensure, and certification agencies governing residential treatment facilities and skilled nursing facilities. He also possesses extensive experience with the generally accepted practices governing the administrative and therapeutic models and milieus that govern the day-to-day operations of residential treatment and nursing facilities. Moreover, Mr. Friedler has substantial experience in the development, implementation, and evaluation of clinical and administrative recommendations arising from state, federal, and administrative agency regulatory surveys across these settings — experience that is directly applicable to assessing whether a facility's conduct met, fell below, or departed from the recognized standard of care in wrongful injury matters.