DES MOINES, Iowa — LCS has promoted Chris Bird to executive vice president and chief operating officer. As COO, Bird will provide oversight of Life Care Services, CPS, asset management, procurement and onboarding operations at the Des Moines-based family of seniors housing companies. Bird will continue to lead operations, seeking to build community occupancy, foster capital partner relationships and develop new business. With Bird’s promotion, GeLynna Shaw has been promoted from senior director of rental communities to managing director of rental communities. Shaw will oversee all operational execution across the …
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NEW YORK CITY — New Senior Investment Group Inc. (NYSE: SNR), a New York City-based seniors housing REIT, has elected Norman Jenkins to its board of directors. Jenkins is president, CEO and managing partner of Capstone Development, a privately held developer of institutional-quality lodging assets. He will serve as an independent director on the board. Prior to founding Capstone in 2009, Jenkins was with Marriott International for 16 years, serving in various leadership positions before being named senior vice president of North American lodging development. His experience also includes five …
Grandbridbge Hires David Rothschild, Mary Christian to Lead West Coast Investment Sales Team
by Jeff Shaw
SAN DIEGO —Grandbridge Real Estate Capital has hired David Rothschild and Mary Christian to lead the company’s new West Coast investment sales team based in San Diego. Both previously with Cushman & Wakefield, Rothschild and Christian focus solely on senior living transactions and have represented sellers of senior living properties across the United States, Canada and the U.K. since 1986. As the leader of the San Diego team, Rothschild oversees financial underwriting of seniors housing properties, targets qualified investors, presents marketing packages to investors, conducts negotiations and leads due diligence …
NEW YORK CITY — Dwight Capital, a private commercial real estate lender based in New York City, has hired Ryan Miles as managing director and chief LEAN/healthcare underwriter. Prior to joining Dwight Capital, Miles was a managing director and chief credit officer for seniors housing and healthcare at Lancaster Pollard, which is now part of the broader lending platform Lument. Miles has over a decade of experience in the commercial real estate finance industry, including credit analysis, underwriting and valuation. He worked in the underwriting department of a low-income housing …
Operators piece together creative solutions to one of the industry’s toughest problems — recruiting and retaining quality employees. By Jeff Shaw Recruiting and retaining quality employees on the front lines remains one of the biggest challenges facing the seniors housing industry today. Argentum estimates the senior living industry will need to fill 1.4 million positions by 2025. The employment landscape in the United States has drastically changed since early this year. The unemployment rate rose 440 basis points to 7.9 percent between September 2019 and September 2020, according to the …
Sunshine Retirement Names Kimberly Boughton Executive Director of Community in Aurora, Colorado
by Jeff Shaw
AURORA, Colo. — Sunshine Retirement Living has named Kimberly Boughton as executive director of Belleview Heights Assisted Living and Memory Care in Aurora. With more than 12 years of experience in the senior living and care industry, Broughton will be responsible for all day-to-day management, including leading the community’s health, safety, and infection prevention programs. Before starting her career in senior care, Broughton worked as an insurance broker. In 2008, she served as a marketing director for a home care company, where she was then promoted to director of operations. …
In the Nov. 4 Seniors Housing Business webinar “Seniors Housing Middle Market Conundrum — Development Challenges in Today’s Environment,” panelists Craig Abbott and Mike Edwin of Health Dimensions Group weighed in on the challenges of developing products for the middle market. They describe demographic and development trends, plus strategies to meet changing needs. “The pandemic exacerbated the development challenges for those in the middle market by bringing with it higher retail and labor costs, higher costs of operations due to regulatory requirements of disease and infection management, PPU increases, as well as other …
BEACHWOOD, Ohio — Sunshine Retirement Living has named Brandy Delp as the executive director of Windsor Heights Assisted Living and Memory Care of Beachwood in the suburbs of Cleveland. In her new role, Delp is responsible for all day-to-day management and operations of the community, including financials, marketing, and government and community relations. She will also oversee all health and safety programs including new heightened procedures and protocols to prevent and mitigate COVID-19 infection. A licensed practical nurse (LPN), Delp is also a certified dementia practitioner and a certified executive …
PHILADELPHIA — Pennrose, a Philadelphia-based developer of multiple types of real estate including seniors housing, has hired Dave Craft as vice president of maintenance. In this role, Craft will be responsible for oversight of maintaining the physical assets of all sites in the organization, executing capital plans, managing on-site insurance claims administration, recruiting and training of Regional Maintenance Managers, and managing the teams that contribute to these activities. With nearly 20 years of maintenance and construction experience, Craft most recently served as director of maintenance for TM Associates Management Inc., …
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — LeadingAge Florida has hired Lesley Martin as the association’s director of education and events. Martin joins the association from Meeting Expectations where she served as senior manager. In her new role, she will be responsible for the development of comprehensive education plans and coordinating all association educational and other events, including the annual convention. At the professional services firm Meeting Expectations, Martin managed the planning, logistics timelines, reports and budget updates for client events, including large international conventions.