TAMPA, Fla. — Grandbridge Real Estate Capital has hired three to its Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group. Based in Tampa, the team is led by Allen McMurtry, David Kliewer and Jay Jordan. All were previously with Cushman & Wakefield. The team has exclusively represented sellers of seniors housing communities across the U.S. since 1986, spanning over 190 properties sold in 35 states. Grandbridge’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group offers construction, nonrecourse acquisition/bridge loans and permanent financing options to seniors housing owners nationwide. These latest additions will work closely …
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Covenant Living Appoints Jeannie Justie as Chief Financial Officer, Amy LaCroix as Senior Vice President
by Jeff Shaw
SKOKIE, Ill. — Covenant Living Communities and Services, a nonprofit, faith-based operator headquartered in Skokie, has named Jeannie Justie as chief financial officer and Amy LaCroix as senior vice president of community operations. Justie comes to Covenant Living with more than 20 years’ experience in healthcare finance, most recently working for a Chicago-area health system with 19 hospitals. In her role, she will work collaboratively with senior leadership in the areas of organizational and financial strategy, financial management, planning, analysis and operations. She is a C.P.A. and received her bachelor’s …
HOUSTON — Kare, a digital labor marketplace for post-acute and senior care based in Houston, has hired Steph Kolbo as chief growth officer. Kolbo joins Kare after a decade at NRC Health, a healthcare customer intelligence company. She led growth strategy for the company’s post-acute care division (including senior living) and most recently helped lead customer strategy for health systems. At Kare, Kolbo will help build on the company’s customer and geographic growth, while also building alliances with nursing and vocational schools.
ATLANTA — Regional Health Properties Inc. (NYSE: RHE), a self-managed healthcare real estate investment company based in Atlanta that invests primarily in senior living and long-term care, has hired Ben Waites as chief financial officer and vice president. Most recently, Waites spent 10 years as vice president of finance and assistant treasurer for Cajun Operating Company Inc., the franchisor and operator of over 1,600 restaurant locations. In this role, he refinanced the organization’s debt, realizing more than $8 million in annual interest savings and restructured all bank relationships. Waites previously …
MINNEAPOLIS — Health Dimensions Group (HDG), a post-acute, long-term care, and senior living consulting and management firm based in Minneapolis, has hired Michael Edwin as vice president of consulting services. Edwin will advise senior living organizations throughout the aging services continuum in the areas of strategic planning, market research and growth strategy development. Edwin brings 20 years of healthcare consulting experience to the position. He has worked with senior living, women’s religious congregations and nonprofit organizations throughout the country. His expertise includes strategic and business planning, market research and analysis, …
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — OdessaConnect, a seniors housing technology platform based in Louisville and formerly known as myFamilyChannel, has hired Jessica Heck as chief business development officer. Heck was most recently chief strategy officer for Blake Management Group. She has already started at her new position, and led the rebranding effort of the company. Heck joins the team with nearly a decade of experience in the senior living industry. Beginning with Atria Senior Living, Heck went on to work for Elmcroft Senior Living and Milestone. She serves on the board of …
DALLAS — Capital Senior Living Corp. (NYSE: CSU) has announced that Carey Hendrickson, the company’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, will step down from his position to pursue another opportunity. Hendrickson plans to remain in his current role through Nov. 6 while CSU searches for a successor. An executive search firm has been hired to assist in the process. CSU also announced that Tiffany Dutton, vice president of accounting and financial reporting, will assume additional responsibility during the transition period. Based in Dallas, CSU is one of the …
NEW YORK CITY — Greystone, a national commercial real estate financing company based in New York, has hired Patrick Berry as a senior production manager with one of the firm’s healthcare and multifamily origination teams. Berry joins Greystone from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), where he spent the last 35 years. He will be based in Detroit and will work closely with Fred Levine, a longtime managing director at Greystone. While at HUD, Berry most recently served as director of production for FHA Section 232/223(f) loans, …
RED BANK, N.J. — Locust Point Capital Inc., a Red Bank-based asset management firm specializing in direct lending to the lower middle market in the seniors housing and care industry, has hired F. Donald “Don” Kelly III as managing director. Kelly has more than 25 years of experience in the seniors housing and long-term care industry, including banking and lending experience at Pacific Western Bank (CapitalSource Healthcare Finance), Merrill Lynch Capital Healthcare Finance, KeyBank Healthcare Finance and MonticelloAM. He has originated, structured and underwritten approximately $5 billion in transactions. Kelly …
PHOENIX — Telgian Fire Safety has promoted Ryan Smith to senior vice president of sales at the Phoenix-based company. In this position, Smith will align the sales organization’s objectives with business strategy through strategic planning, sales strategy development, forecasting, resource planning and budgeting. Smith will also develop sales strategies with operations and account executives to ensure successful onboarding of new accounts, implement marketing programs to increase brand awareness, and improve the customer experience. Smith’s career spans more than 25 years as a corporate executive. His knowledge of management, business development …