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VERO BEACH, Fla. — Watercrest Senior Living Group has promoted Chris Shepherd to vice president of creative program development. Shepherd starts his new role while also supporting the opening of a new assisted living and memory care community, Pelican Landing.

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. — Gary Sabin will retire from the CareTrust REIT Inc. (NASDAQ: CTRE) board of directors. Sabin is leaving the company for a senior leadership position within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

IRVINE, Calif. — HCP (NYSE: HCP) has re-hired Tom Herzog as the company’s chief financial officer, a position he held from 2009 to 2011. Herzog will also be an executive vice president with the company.

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Collette Valentine, the chief operating officer and chief operating officer of Integral Senior Living  (ISL), a senior living management company based in Carlsbad, has been named to the Board of Argentum. She will serve a three-year term for the seniors housing trade association formerly known as the Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA).

CHICAGO — Ventas Inc. (NYSE: VTR), one of the largest healthcare REITs in the United States, has appointed James “Denny” Shelton to serve as the company’s independent presiding director.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Kisco Senior Living has named Tom Ford the executive director of The Cardinal, an upcoming seniors housing community in Raleigh.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — CBRE Group Inc. has hired Ross Sanders to join CBRE Capital Markets’ National Senior Housing Investment Sales Practice as first vice president.

CARMEL, Ind. – Mainstreet, a skilled nursing developer, has added three new hires to its headquarters in the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel.

CHASKA, Minn. — The Goodman Group has promoted Matthew Kern to national director of operations of the senior living and health care division of Goodman Group. The company also promoted Shane Goodman to chief investment officer and president of JBG Design & Development.