LOS ANGELES-Jones Lang LaSalle has named Jason Clark as a managing director to expand the expertise of the firm’s healthcare solutions group in the West. Clark will work with hospitals and healthcare systems in the region, which stretches from Colorado to California.

Clark, who will be based in JLL’s Los Angeles office, joins the company with more than 15 years of experience in the healthcare industry, working directly with and for some of the largest and most prominent healthcare organizations in the country.

Clark most recently served as an executive with the Hammes Co., one of the nation’s leading healthcare real estate consulting and development firms. He was instrumental in creating custom market-based outsourcing solutions for many of the strategic, financial and operating challenges facing the healthcare industry, JLL says in an announcement regarding his appointment.