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.
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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 …
Watercrest Hires James Brassard as Executive Director of Palm Bay Memory Care in Florida
by Jeff Shaw
PALM BAY, Fla. — Watercrest Senior Living Group has hired James Brassard as executive director of Palm Bay Memory Care, a 72-unit memory care community approximately 70 miles southeast of Orlando. Brassard is experienced in senior living start-ups and turn-around communities and has received the FALA Sales and Marketing Director of the Year award. A combat veteran who served in both Afghanistan and Iraq, Brassard received his M.B.A. from Gulf Coast University and continues to serve his local community as a college professor.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Lancaster Pollard Mortgage Co., a Columbus-based division of ORIX Real Estate Capital (OREC), has promoted several employees to expand its seniors housing and healthcare production team. As announced this past spring, Aaron Becker is the chief production officer and East team leader for the firm. Fellow Lancaster Pollard veterans Casey Moore, Doug Harper and Quintin Harris also expanded their leadership roles, with Moore and Harper leading the West, and Harris leading the Midwest. In the East, Michael Blackwell has joined Becker’s team and will be responsible for …