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 …
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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.
CARLSBAD, Calif. — Integral Senior Living (ISL), a Carlsbad-based operator, has named Shelley Speer as its new regional director of sales and marketing. Speer comes to ISL with more than 20 years of experience in the senior living industry, and has spent many of those years in management or marketing positions. In her most recent position as a regional manager for the northwest and north California region at A Place for Mom, she was responsible for talent development, coaching and managing a sales team of 19 advisors. In her new …
Blake Management Group Promotes Morgan Walter to Area Director of Operations in Mississippi
by Jeff Shaw
JACKSON, Miss. — Blake Management Group (BMG), a Jackson-based operator, has promoted Morgan Walter to area director of operations in Mississippi. Walter was formerly the executive director at The Blake at Oxford, one of the company’s communities. In her new position she will supervise and oversee operations across all four Blake locations in the state: The Blake at Oxford, The Blake at Flowood, The Blake at Township and The Claiborne at Adelaide. Walter will direct the four Mississippi Blake locations in strategic growth initiatives, daily operations and the development and …
VANCOUVER, Wash. — JEA Senior Living has hired Christopher Belford as CEO, effective Nov. 1. Belford has nearly 30 years of executive operations experience in the seniors housing industry, working for multiple leading operators across the continuum of care. He most recently served as executive vice president at American Healthcare Investors (AHI) where he managed 140 communities within the company’s portfolio of seniors housing, skilled nursing and hospital assets throughout the United States and the United Kingdom. Before joining AHI, Belford was president of Brookdale Senior Living’s Western division, managing …