PEOPLE AND PLACES


consulting firm Root Inc., now a part of Accenture.


Ridge Crest at Meadow Ridge CCRC, man- aged by Benchmark, based in Waltham, Mass., has received the Center of Distinction Award from Would Care Specialists, LLC. Ridge Crest is the community’s skilled nurs- ing and rehabilitation wing, which was found to have superior patient results, including a less than 30-day average healing rate.


Great Place to Work® and PEOPLE mag-


azine named Baltimore-based Brightview Senior Living to the 2021 PEOPLE Compa- nies that Care. This is Brightview Senior Liv- ing’s first time on the list. The list is based on survey responses from employees; 90 percent of Brightview’s employees said it is a great place to work, compared to 59 percent for the average U.S. company.


Commonwealth Senior Living, based in Charlottesville, Va., has hired three new leadership team members. Monet Morris has been named senior regional vice president; she is a licensed assisted living administra- tor and LPN with a bachelor of science in healthcare administration and has worked at Brookdale and Sunrise. She was most recently market vice president of Rich- mond Jencare, leading four centers. Victoria Leitgeb, named regional vice president, has most recently been regional director of op- erations with Legend Senior Living and is an LPN and certified PCH administrator. Rebecca Sturtz, named regional vice presi- dent, was most recently regional director of operations at Five Star Senior Living for 13 centers in North and South Carolina. Also at Commonwealth, Amber Foster, former ex- ecutive director at Commonwealth Senior Living at Front Royal, has been promoted to regional vice president overseeing northwest region communities. Gary Pelton, former ex- ecutive director of Commonwealth Senior Living at Kings Grant House, has been pro- moted to regional vice president, overseeing eastern communities.


For the third consecutive year, Enlivant, based in Chicago, has been certified as a Great Place to Work. In surveys, 90 percent of employees said their work has special


Integral Senior Living, based in Carlsbad, Calif., has promoted Heather Haley and Tina Schachter to the role of regional vice presidents of sales and marketing. Haley joined ISL in 2016 with over 18 years of ex- perience in health care marketing and sales and was most recently senior director of sales and marketing. Schachter, with 20 years of experience in both hospitality and senior liv- ing, is a certified dementia practitioner and board-certified patient advocate.


Laurel Circle, a 202-residence LCS commu- nity in Bridgewater, N.J., has named Eric Eichhorst as director of sales and marketing. Eichhorst brings more than 15 years of se- nior living experience and recently served as the director of sales and marketing at a senior living community in Freehold, N.J. Also at LCS, Kelly Streck-Rider has been named director of admissions for assisted living and memory care at LCS Sagewood’s Desert Willow, a 44-resident community in Phoenix, Ariz.


Frances messer


North Carolina Assisted Living Association (NCA- LA) president and CEO Frances Messer has been awarded The Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the highest award for state


service granted by the state’s Office of the Governor. Messer has a long history in health care service, beginning as a care aide and then putting herself through nursing school. Deciding her heart was in the senior care field, she then became a director of nursing and a licensed nursing home administrator, owning and operating a nursing home. She is a Certified Director of Assisted Living


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meaning, 90 percent said they were treated fairly regardless of gender, and 87 percent feel their work makes a difference.


HHHunt, based in Richmond, Va., has been named among the top 100 adoption-friendly workplaces in the United States and second within the real estate industry by the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. This is the fifth time that HHHunt has been recog- nized for its adoption-friendly policies and benefits.


(CDAL). “As a nursing home administrator, Ms. Messer was dedicated to her residents, their families, and her staff. She made a dif- ference in someone’s life every day,” said Jane A. Baker, executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Examiners for Nurs- ing Home Administrators.


Justin Dickinson has been named as senior vice president, investments for Pathway to Living, the seniors housing arm of the Chi- cago-based firm, Waterton. He was most re- cently senior vice president of acquisitions/ investments for Anthology Senior Living, the senior housing arm of CA Ventures, where he executed 41 senior living transactions to- taling $2 billion over five years.


Sunrise Senior Living, based in McLean, Va., has appointed Nick Stengle as chief operat- ing officer (COO) and Tavinder (Tav) Hare as chief financial officer (CFO). Stengle brings more than 20 years of executive experience and was most recently COO of Kindred at Home, the largest home health provider in the United States, and is a U.S. Air Force veteran. Hare most recently served as CFO of retail real estate for Majid Al Futtaim, a real estate and retail operations organization with a presence in 20 countries and 44,000 employees worldwide, and previously at Uni- bail-Rodamco-Westfield, an international REIT with assets under management of over $60 billion and $14 billion of assets under development.


ARGENTUM RECOGNIZED FOR COMMUNICATIONS


Argentum has received an Honorable Mention for its COVID-19 communications from Ragan’s PR Daily’s 2021 Nonprofit Communications awards. The designation recognizes the whole of Argentum’s member and public communications on COVID-19, including a weekly newsletter, guidance documents, blog posts, the COVID-19 Toolkit, and memos and alerts.


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