PEOPLE AND PLACES
J&M Family Management, LLC, based in Grapevine, Texas, has named Bobby Jeffrey to the position of executive vice president of hospitality and restaurant operations. The Autumn Leaves memory care provider has expanded into restaurant management with the signing of a six-restaurant franchise contract for locations in Texas and Chicago with Williams Chicken. Jeffrey trained at the Culinary Institute of America and for 20 years led culinary and dietary services for J&M Family Managements’ senior living communities.
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LCS, based in Des Moines, Iowa, has named Rick Westermann the compa- ny’s first chief marketing officer. He was previously vice president/senior di- rector of marketing and
sales for the company’s rental division. LCS has also promoted Dan Lahey to executive vice president/chief investment officer. In his new role, Lahey will join the executive lead- ership team and oversee acquisitions, devel- opment capital, and debt placement. Lahey joined LCS in 2008 as an accounting and tax manager and in 2011 was named a senior investment manager. In 2019, he was pro- moted to senior vice president/managing director of investments. Also at LCS, Cooper Ledvina has been named move-in coordina- tor at Eastcastle Place in Milwaukee, Minn. He previously was activities coordinator at the community.
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Dallas- and West Des Moines, Iowa-based Lifespace Communities has named Dana Smith as chief revenue officer. She previously ran operations of a Lifespace portfolio
of senior living communities in Texas.
At Chicago-based Pathway to Living, CEO Jerry Finis and COO Maria Oliva have an- nounced their retirements. Finis will serve full-time and then will move to a semi-retire- ment role, after which he will remain a senior advisor and partner in the firm. Justin Dick- inson, executive vice president—senior liv- ing, will assume the day-to-day responsibility
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and leadership of Pathway to Living. He was hired in August of 2021 to oversee overall investment strategy, with plans to expand his role over time. Jeff Floyd, with 35 years’ ex- perience in senior living, will succeed Oliva.
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Sherpa CRM co-founder David Smith will be mov- ing on from Sherpa to fully pursue paths as an author, consultant, and speaker. He is also execu- tive producer of a fea-
ture-length documentary film being made on aging and ageism, and will continue in his role as co-founder and owner of The Gatesworth Communities, a network of se- nior living communities in St. Louis, Mo.
Sinceri Senior Living, based in Vancouver, Wash., has been certified as a Great Place to Work® for the fourth consecutive year in a row. The certification process involved sur- veying employees from across Sinceri’s 75+ locations and evaluating more than 60 ele- ments of their experience at work.
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At Bellevue, Wash.-based Transforming Age, Ken Noreen has been named vice president of con- tinuing care retirement communities (CCRCs). He previously was senior vice president at Wohlsen Construction, a builder of senior living commu- nities, and has served at Covenant Living and As- bury Communities. Transforming Age also announced that Cathy Dangelis, Western Re- gion Manager for Key- Bank and affordable housing financing ex- pert, will be joining its board of directors. In
addition, Jay Woolford will become vice president of real estate development at Transforming Age. He was previously CEO and executive director of the company’s Sustainable Housing for Ageless Genera- tions (SHAG) program.
Fil Southerland, director of health care solutions at Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Yardi, has been appointed to the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC). The Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office announced the appointment of Southerland, along with six other members, to serve a three-year term.
"I'm honored to serve on the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee," said Southerland. "The opportunity gives me and my fellow appointees a platform to discuss pressing issues and advise the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology accordingly. I'm pleased to bring my experience to advocate for the electronic access, exchange, and use of health information in the long-term and post-acute care industry."
Prior to his time at Yardi, he served as founder and CTO of ALMSA, Inc., a cloud-based electronic health provider in the assisted living industry.
The HITAC was established in 2016 under the 21st Century Cures Act. The committee provides recommendations to the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on policies, standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria relating to the implementation of health information technology that advances the electronic use of health information.
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