BALTIMORE — Capital Funding Group (CFG), a Baltimore-based lender, has announced an expansion from long-term care into the multifamily and seniors housing sectors. To help run the new divisions, CFG has promoted Erik Howard to executive managing director of business development and marketing. During his 17-year career at CFG, Howard has been involved with the financing of more than $7 billion of healthcare and multifamily assets. With the move into seniors housing and apartments, Howard and CFG expect that amount to double in the next three years. Along with the …
Anthem Memory Care Appoints Jennifer Davidson as Executive Director of Community in Aurora, Colorado
AURORA, Colo. — Anthem Memory Care has named Jennifer Davidson as executive director for Chelsea, a memory care community in Aurora. In this capacity, she will oversee all daily care, programming and operations. Davidson was senior general manager for the Carillion at Belleview Station in Denver. She was also area director of operations for Lincoln Meadows Senior Living in Parker. Davidson brings over 20 years of senior living experience to this position. She earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Senior living communities grapple with a severe worker shortage, responding with innovative approaches and programs. By Jane Adler “Help Wanted!” “Now Hiring!” The urgent signs posted everywhere from grocery stores to job boards reveal the depth of the labor shortage gripping the country. Workers are scarce. But senior living and care is being especially hard hit. Long known for having a high turnover rate, the sector faces a number of new challenges. Workers in a healthcare-type setting are afraid of contracting COVID-19. The Delta variant of the virus has only …
General contractors continue to innovate and complete projects despite COVID-caused headwinds. By Jeff Shaw We’re all familiar with the headlines by now: construction materials prices are at record highs, and nearly every industry has a shortage of workers, dealing a one-two punch to supply chains. General contractors may be on the front line of both problems as they deal directly with the rising materials costs while trying to build seniors housing communities with skeleton crews. According to Des Moines, Iowa-based general contractor Weitz, lumber prices have at least come back …
Is your labor and staffing situation better, worse or the same as it was earlier in 2021, and why? Focus on engagement By Monica Friedman Chief HR Officer LCS We are continuing to experience staffing challenges to a greater degree than we did earlier this year. Although it varies by location, the challenge of attracting new talent to our industry remains. We have faced increased wage pressure from staffing agencies that offer higher wages to experienced workers only to charge those higher wages back to clients. And, while most healthcare …
NEW YORK CITY — McAlpine Contracting, a general contracting and construction management firm active in New York, New Jersey, Vermont and Puerto Rico, has promoted Mark Montalvo to director of construction. Montalvo previously served as senior project manager. The firm specializes in senior living, healthcare and commercial projects. “Since joining the company in 2005, Mark has successfully managed some of McAlpine’s most challenging projects, including more than 10 senior living and nursing home developments,” says Troy Caruso, the company’s CEO. In his new position, Montalvo will be based at the …
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Brookdale Senior Living Inc. (NYSE: BKD) has promoted Kevin Bowman to executive vice president of community operations. Bowman joined Nashville-based owner-operator Brookdale in 2016 as regional vice president. Soon after, he was promoted to senior regional vice president, serving multiple states and leading eight district teams. Bowman became West Division vice president in April 2020 and has been leading the division through the COVID-19 pandemic. Bowman has brings 30 years of senior living experience to this position, where he will provide strategic direction for Brookdale’s 682 communities …
NEW YORK CITY — Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital LLC, the commercial and multifamily mortgage banking subsidiary of Enterprise Community Investment Inc., has hired Kim Huffstutler as senior vice president of seniors housing and care. Huffstutler will be responsible for executing debt and equity placements for the New York-based company’s National Seniors Housing Group, including bank and debt fund executions, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Life Insurance and HUD loans. She will be based in the Mobile, Alabama, office. Huffstutler brings 12 years of commercial mortgage banking experience. Before joining Bellwether …
FORT WORTH and ARLINGTON, Texas — Koelsch Communities has promoted Quentin Zambeck to executive director at Riverside Inn in Fort Worth. Zambeck transferred from sister community Meadowbrook Memory Care in Arlington, where he served as the executive director. Zambeck will oversee daily operations of Riverside Inn. Replacing Zambeck as executive director at Meadowbrook Memory Care team is Jamie Althaus. He brings more than 12 years of community management experience and has been with the Meadowbrook community since the first of the year as the physical plant director.
MCLEAN, Va. — Sunrise Senior Living has appointed Mary Kay Gribbons as chief human resources officer (CHRO) and Maria Davlantes as chief marketing officer (CMO). Gribbons brings more than 20 years of experience in human resources and operations across industries. Most recently, she served as the CHRO for Dean Foods, the largest dairy processor in the U.S. with $8 billion in revenue, more than 15,000 teammates and 70 plants. There she led a formal restructuring, developed programs to retain leaders and enhanced internal communication during a period of intense change. …