PEOPLE AND PLACES News, Sales & Developments
Discovery Senior Living, based in Bonita Springs, Fla., broke ground on an indepen- dent living community, Discovery Village at Sarasota Bay. Amenities include restaurants, a movie theater, and a fi tness club. It has 198 apartment homes and is expected to open in fall of 2021.
Guardian Pharmacy of Jacksonville, a locally owned member of Atlanta-based Guardian Pharmacy Service, has acquired the long- term care division of Atkinson’s Pharmacy. The newly acquired pharmacy will operate as Guardian Pharmacy of Jacksonville and will continue serving existing providers and residents. The expansion increases the phar- macy’s resident customer base by more than 30 percent. Rob Allen, CEO and president of Atkinson’s Pharmacy, will continue working with Guardian, and employees from Atkin- son’s Pharmacy will join the Guardian team.
Appointments, Promotions & Recognition
CINDY M. BAIER
Brentwood,, Tenn.-based Brookdale Senior Living CEO Lucinda “Cindy” M. Baier has been invited to join the New York Stock Exchange Board Adviso- ry Council. Baier will
serve a two-year term on the board, which proactively addresses the critical need for in- clusive leadership by connecting diverse can- didates with companies seeking new direc- tors. Also at Brookdale, the board of directors has appointed Jordan R. Asher, M.D., M.S., as an independent director. He is chief phy- sician executive and senior vice president of Sentara Healthcare.
Walnut Creek, Calif.-based Covia resident service coordinators Sara Choi and Chan Park were honored by the County of Los Angeles for their work in promoting and supporting falls prevention. Choi is a lead resident ser- vice coordinator and wellness coordinator at Vista Towers in Los Angeles, and Park is a resident service coordinator at Long Beach Lutheran Tower. Choi translated fall preven-
The independent living building at Fanwood, N.J.-based Chelsea Senior Living’s The Chel- sea at Brookhaven opened in February. The community is in Yaphank, N.Y., in a develop- ment called The Boulevard, with a hotel, shopping center, and townhouse development nearby. The Brookhaven will also include assisted living and memory care apartments, now under construction. The community is off ering virtual tours.
tion training materials into Korean, and Park teaches the Master of Balance program to Korean-speaking residents.
GAIL PETERSON
Gail Peterson, senior vice president of global mar- keting and communica- tions at St. Paul, Minn.- based Ecolab, has been named to Savoy maga- zine’s 2020 list of the
Most Infl uential Black Executives in Corpo- rate America. The annual list recognizes leading African American women and men for their executive and business leadership excellence and community outreach.
Charleston, S.C. -based Harmony Senior Services has named Steve Martin as the com- pany’s COO. Martin has 33 years of expe- rience in senior housing, starting in skilled nursing and moving into assisted living in 1993, working with major senior living or- ganizations such as Atria, Merrill Gardens and Horizon Bay. Most recently, he spent 19 years with Brookdale Senior Living as senior vice president of regional operations. He has
a bachelor of science degree in long term care administration from Southern Adventist University. He is a 10-year member of the Georgia Senior Living Association board of directors.
Carlsbad, Calif. -based Integral Senior Living named Helen Porter ex- ecutive director at
its HELEN PORTER JOLENE FARISH
South High Senior Liv- ing community in Knox- ville, Tenn. With Integral since 2016, she holds a master’s degree in recre- ation therapy and is certi- fi ed as a therapeutic rec- reation specialist, a dementia practitioner, and an Alzheimer’s dis-
ease and dementia care trainer. Also at Inte- gral, Jolene Farish is now executive director at Las Villas del Norte in Escondido, Calif. She has been a social worker, director of res- ident and family services, and executive di- rector at assisted living and memory care communities.
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