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SEBASTIAN, Fla. — Watercrest Senior Living Group has promoted Michelle Miller to executive director of Pelican Landing Assisted Living and Memory Care in Sebastian. Miller will replace Kim Sviben, who was recently promoted to area director of operations. Miller joined Watercrest in 2019 as assistant executive director of Watercrest St. Lucie West, where she supported community growth and established relationships with her team and resident families. Miller brings 22 years of nursing experience to her role, as well as service in the U.S. Army where she spent four years in …

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TAMPA, Fla. — WoodBine Senior Living, a Tampa-based owner-operator, has announced a series of leadership changes. Donna LaRotonda, Chris Behm and Daryl McCombs are the new owners and managing partners of the company. Co-founders and former managing partners, Gloria Brock and Steve Gaylor, are taking on strategic advisory roles while also serving as director of sales and director of development, respectively. LaRotonda is a nine-year employee of WoodBine, having most recently served as senior executive director of Spring Village at Galloway. She has more than two decades of marketing and …

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AUSTIN, Texas — CBRE has hired John Sweeny to its Senior Housing Capital Markets team as a senior vice president to focus on investment sales nationally. Based in Austin, Sweeny has more than 15 years of experience in real estate investing and investment banking, specializing in the seniors housing sector, including active adult, independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing assets. Throughout his career, he has been involved in more than $3 billion of senior housing transactions. Sweeny will partner with Aron Will, a vice chairman of seniors …

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NEW YORK CITY — Monticello, a capital solutions provider based in New York, has named Ashish Shah to the position of managing director. Shah, who brings over 25 years of experience in healthcare and traditional real estate, will concentrate his efforts on business development, origination, and expanding and bolstering Monticello’s capital and risk management capabilities. Prior to Monticello, Shah co-led Formation Capital’s lending group with a primary focus on business development and capital markets/syndications. He was previously at Oxford Finance and GE Healthcare Financial Services in a variety of business …

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SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Ryan cos. US Inc. has hired Patrick Dimaano as vice president of senior living development for its Western division. Dimaano is based in the company’s San Diego office and will lead senior living development for Ryan’s Southwest, West and Northwest regions. Bringing 13 years of sector and industry experience to the role, Dimaano will support the national growth of Ryan’s senior living portfolio by pursuing development opportunities, maintaining and growing relationships with key partners, and working hand-in-hand with operators. In his previous roles, Dimaano executed on …

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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Anthem Memory Care has named Dave Norton as the executive director of Morningside Place, a memory care community in Overland Park. He will oversee all care, operations and programming. Norton previously was administrator/executive director of nearby Rolling Hills Health & Rehab. His career includes two decades of managerial experience in the medical equipment and diagnostics fields. A graduate of the University of Kansas, Norton is a licensed respiratory therapist as well as a licensed nursing home administrator.

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VERO BEACH, Fla. — Watercrest Senior Living Group has promoted Kim Sviben to the role of area director of operations, leading the company’s growing Southeast portfolio. Sviben joined the Watercrest family in 2017 as resident wellness director, later becoming executive director of Pelican Landing Assisted Living and Memory Care in March 2019. During her leadership, Sviben and her team accomplished 100 percent occupancy twice and earned the title of ‘Best Assisted Living Community’ two years in a row from the Hometown News.

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DALLAS — Sentrics, a Dallas-based seniors housing technology firm, has added Sarah Thomas to its advisory council. A global aging expert, Thomas brings nearly 20 years of knowledge transforming the aging experience to the council, which provides the Sentrics management team guidance and insights about the trends impacting the services and care of senior living. Thomas’ technology perspective is shaped by her experience helping some of the largest senior living companies develop and implement strategic change management initiatives and innovative human potential products. Combining corporate, entrepreneurial and consulting experience with …

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Singh, a seniors housing developer operating under the Waltonwood brand, has promoted Eric Davis to executive director of Waltonwood Cotswold in Charlotte. Davis brings with him nearly 10 years of experience to his new role. He began his work with the Waltonwood organization in 2015 as a third-shift wellness nurse. During his time with the community, Davis was promoted to the position of assisted living wellness coordinator, which allowed him to work directly with residents and their family members. In 2019 he was promoted to the associate …

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WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. — LTC Properties Inc. (NYSE: LTC), a real estate investment trust that invests in seniors housing and healthcare properties, has elected Cornelia Cheng as a new member of the board of directors effective April 1. The move increases the total number of directors from five to six, 50 percent of whom are women, and independent directors from four to five. Cheng, 53, brings over 20 years of corporate finance, acquisitions, capital markets, recapitalization, REIT financings and talent management experience. She is currently managing director of investments for …

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