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In Lindsay Martin’s 22 years of caring for older adults, she has received widespread recognition. She has gained praise from several colleagues and major companies, including Elmcroft, Silverado and The Goodman Group.

In her current role as executive director of The Village Senior Residence, she leads her community with integrity and love for her staff and residents, according to colleagues.

When it comes to managing COVID-19, Martin is a proven warrior. After losing a member of her immediate family to COVID, she returned to work to help staff members. During one of the community’s worst COVID-19 outbreaks, she created a visitation room out of plastic sheeting and plexiglass, enabling her residents to receive visits from their loved ones during this stressful time. Often, she would manage the sign-in process and infection control procedures required from the local health department by herself to keep the makeshift visitation room possible. 

During the past two years of COVID outbreaks in the senior living community, Martin has maintained the highest rating of resident and employee satisfaction scores in the company.  She received recognition for the high satisfaction scores and for meeting budgetary and other goals. 

“She takes care of her team and treats us all like valued respected essential workers, she has a servant’s heart to lead and we are blessed to know and work beside her,” colleagues said. “When COVID hits, caregivers are hard to come by, especially rural Montana.”

“Through [personal protective equipment] protocol, COVID [and] short-staffed facilities, Lindsay makes it where we still get up each day and want to continue doing our very important jobs. She is a blessing to the senior living world and to each of us.”

The McKnight’s Women of Distinction program is jointly administered by McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, McKnight’s Senior Living and McKnight’s Home Care. The program’s Diamond sponsor is PointClickCare. Silver sponsors include OnShift and PharMerica, and the Bronze sponsor is Reliant Rehabilitation. Table sponsors included Dreamscape, Gojo/Purell and Sound Physicians.