88 Bed dual certified facility. Census building as 58 beds were occupied upon my hire date of 10-1-07 and 75 beds are now occupied with strong background in Prospective Payment System being marketed. Also motivation toward employees to be empowered to grow within the facility/company.

Census building which was a issue with this building. Staff retention was also a issue in this building in Nursing Department. I was able to build census from 57 to capacity to 72 with a strong PPS census from 2 to 16 avg. for the year. Staff retention was better on my departure as a strong Director of Nursing was secured which had been the issue in the past. I was able to secure this position and stabilzed it for over 1 year and the entire Nursing Dept.
I was hired as Administrator of the Facility.

I was transferred from McKenzie Health Care Center which I opened from the ground up as a brand new facility and was offered by the Director of Operations to open Northbrooke for the same parent multi-facility Company. Both buildings were opened brand new under my Administration. I was the Administrator @ Northbrooke which was a state of the art 120 bed dual certified Facility which specialized in Rehab Therapy. My strong points in this building were opening it new, building the census in a highly competetive area that had overutilization of Rehab beds. I was successful within one year to maximize the PPS census to a average of 22 and hold that average often netting over 250,000.00 per month in ParT A PPS income as well as average 95% overall census with a large amount of Private Pay clients as well.
Staff retention in this area was very hard to secure but this was accomplished with a turnover rate of approximately 20% yearly of the Nursing Dept. as a whole.

I was very priviledged to have opened this facility from the ground up. It was a brand new facility, 99 bed ICF Nursing Facility upon opening in 1995. Building capacity was 99 beds with special dementia wandering unit which was 22 beds of those 99 beds. The faciity was very successful and census capacity was reached within the first 6 months of Licensure. Private Pay census was strong in this area. Overutilization of beds was a issue in the area but this was a new facility and was a strong point to the census building. A net profit was reached within the first year. The staff retention in this area was not a issue for this facility as it was a very rural area. I was approached by the same company to open another site for them that would be dual certified and I desired to grow and learn more about Medicare and did accept the position they offered me @ Northbrooke in Jackson,Tennessee as the facility in McKenzie had become very stable and profitable in a short time.

I started @ this 66 bed ICF Nursing Facility on April 1, 1975 as a Nursing Assistant. I was ask per the Administrator, Grady L. Jones to be the Physical Therapy Assistant and was trained by a Licensed Physical Therapist to do this in 1977. It was later requested that I act as Social Service Director per Mr. Jones, The Administrator. I was trained by a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Mr. Joe Pickens to work in this position in 1979. It was requested that I become the Bookeeper in the early 1980's by the Administrator in which I accepted. I was the Assistant Administrator from 1983 until 1989 when I was Licensed as a Nursing Home Administrator in Tennessee. I did train as an A.I.T. under the Direction of Mr. Jack Tipton for 1 year. I also participated in a Home Study Course for 1 year through the
George Washington University Home Study Program. I became the Full Time Administrator of July 1, 1989 @ Milan Health Care and held that position until January 23, 1995 when I accepted another position as Full Time Administrator.

This was a class offered by Tennessee Health Care Association that was taught by Dr. Robert Haacker and approved the Tennessee Board of Nursing Home Administrators that in adjacent to having 15 years of experience in the Nursing Home Industry, taking a acceptable Home Study Course with successful scoring and being a Administrator in Training under a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator/Preceptor qualified a Individual to go before the Tennessee Board of Examiners and request to sit for the National Board of Examiners Nursing Home Administor Exam. This was approved by this Board regarding all above qualifications for me to sit for the National Exam. I was licensed on April 10, 1989 per the National Exam, Tennessee, License # 1475.

This was a Program designed for Administrators in Training to Qualify to take the State Boards after each domain was completed thru the direction of a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator/Preceptor who qualified and was trained to precept a Individual for a 6 month period prior to the Board of Nursing Home Administrators in Tennessee considering the possibility of sitting for the National Administrator's Board Test.

This was a acceptable home study program thru George Washington University for Health Care Administration.

I am a High School Graduate, Greenfield High School Class of 1974.