DENVER — Enquire, a Denver-based software company offering cloud customer relationship management (CRM), marketing automation and contact center solutions for senior living communities, has hired Craig Riley as chief information security officer. Riley will be responsible for establishing and maintaining a comprehensive information security strategy and program to ensure that information assets and technologies are appropriately protected. In addition, he will ensure information security risks are identified, evaluated and mitigated; lead efforts to prevent and respond to security incidents; establish standards and controls; manage security technologies; and implement security policies …
CHICAGO — Sentrics, a Chicago-based technology company serving seniors housing, has added Robert Kramer to its Advisory Council. Kramer is the co-founder and former CEO of the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC). Broadly recognized as one of senior living’s most influential and high-profile thought leaders, Kramer joins a group of leaders providing the Sentrics management team guidance and insight about the trends impacting the services and care in senior living. Kramer, who launched Nexus Insights in 2020, offers new ideas about how to rethink aging and …
DALLAS — OneDay, a Dallas-based technology company offering video storytelling within senior living communities, has hired Eric Varin as vice president of client success and Victoria Repice as vice president of product. The company also promoted Deena Naccarella from vice president of finance to chief financial officer and Carter Severns from director of marketing to vice president of marketing. Varin and Repice bring OneDay to 14 new hires in the last year, which are in response to OneDay’s growth. In 2020 alone, the company increased its customer base by more …
WALTHAM, Mass. — Benchmark Senior Living, a Waltham-based provider of senior living services in the Northeast, has expanded its team of consulting medical and scientific experts with the creation of the Benchmark Coronavirus Advisory Council. The council will guide the company’s long-term strategy and response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The council’s esteemed members include a former U.S. surgeon general, a former secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, a nationally known geriatric psychiatrist, a leading infection control preventionist and other experts. “Since the pandemic began, we’ve relied on leading …
IRVINE, Calif. — Sabra Health Care REIT (NASDAQ: SBRA), an Irvine-based investor, has appointed Katie Cusack to its board of directors. Cusack currently serves as chief operating officer of Cornell Capital LLC, a $4 billion private investment firm with offices in New York and Hong Kong. From 2007 to 2020, she served in various capacities at Credit Suisse, including chief operating officer for the investment banking division in Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and as the head of ultra-high net worth coverage. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Cusack …
IRVINE, Calif. — Sabra Health Care REIT Inc. (NASDAQ: SBRA), an investor based in Irvine, has appointed Michael Costa to the position of chief accounting officer. He has also been designated by the company’s Board of Directors as the principal accounting officer. Costa currently serves as Sabra’s executive vice president of finance, a position he has held since August 2017. Previously, he held various leadership positions overseeing Sabra’s accounting and finance functions since Sabra’s inception in November 2010. Costa has more than 15 years of experience in commercial real estate …
ST. LOUIS — Ascension, a St. Louis-based health system, has named Rafael Bloise as chief medical officer of senior care, including Ascension Living. In this role, Bloise will be responsible for the clinical direction and strategy across Ascension Living, as well as champion the implementation of a national palliative care strategy in partnership with each Ascension acute care market. Bloise comes to Ascension from Mercy Health West Michigan, where he served as the regional medical director of the Palliative and Support Care Program. Bloise is board certified in internal medicine, …
FORT WASHINGTON, Pa. — Acts Retirement-Life Communities, a nonprofit operator based in Fort Washington, has named Dr. Gene Lammers to its board of directors. Lammers will also serve on the board of Westminster Village, an Acts affiliate community in Spanish Fort, Alabama. Lammers currently serves as medical director at Mercy LIFE of Alabama. He is also an adjunct clinical professor of medicine at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine. He has previously served as medical director of the Center for Geriatric Medicine at Indiana University Health, and has …
PHILADELPHIA — Pennrose, a Philadelphia-based developer developer of multifamily properties including seniors housing, has promoted Patrick Stewart to regional vice president of the Maryland region. Stewart will assume responsibilities for the region following the recently announced promotion of Ivy Dench-Carter to senior vice president for development. Stewart joined Pennrose in 2013 and has since served in Pennrose’s Baltimore office, most recently as a senior developer. He has been active in all facets of the real estate development process, including financial analysis; feasibility; assembling and leading the development team; securing entitlements; …
HATTIESBURG, Miss. — Claiborne Senior Living has hired Cory Rogers and Amber Thomas to its corporate management team. Rogers assumes the role of regional director of operations and is responsible for communities in Mississippi, Georgia and Louisiana. He comes to Claiborne from a seven-year stint with Enlivant Senior Living, where he oversaw management of 12 to 16 assisted living communities in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Thomas joins the team as regional nurse consultant with nearly a decade of management experience in the healthcare field. Prior to joining Claiborne, she served …