Jaime Brady possesses the rare ability to look back on her childhood and know she is where she is meant to be.
Meet Kristin Harris, Rising Star honoree
By
Chloe Konrad
Jul 26, 2021
After only six months of working as a floor nurse at her first facility, Kristin Harris was promoted. Since then, up has been her only direction.
Meet Sandy Skerda, Veteran VIP honoree
By
Chloe Konrad
Aug 03, 2021
Sandy Skerda has dedicated two decades to one long-term care company and its residents, and at this point, she has no plans of stopping.
Meet April Diaz, 2022 Hall of Honor inductee
By
Nicole Blanchard
Jul 14, 2022
For 25 years, April Diaz has tirelessly served residents, staff and the long-term care profession.
Meet Cindy Baier, Hall of Honor inductee
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 25, 2020
Lucinda “Cindy” Baier became president and CEO at the country’s largest senior living company, Brookdale Senior Living, in early 2018 after having been chief financial officer since late 2015.
Meet Desirae Toomey, 2023 Rising Star
By
Amy Novotney
Aug 11, 2023
Learn more about Desirae Toomey, Administrator, Home- and Community-Based Services, Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society (Sanford Home Health), Sioux Falls, SD.
Technology, advocacy required to empower workers in LTC, healthcare’s ‘hardest setting’
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 20, 2024
Facing the reality that most new nurses don’t choose to enter geriatrics, skilled nursing and senior living leaders are both going back to the basics and seizing on innovation to grow their direct care...
Pandemic ‘was like the devil walked through and was invisible’: McKnight’s ‘Distinction’ panelists
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 20, 2021
Operating through the pandemic was like working with a ghost that was impossible to grasp, leading to feelings of failure among senior living and care leaders. But the pandemic also refocused priorities.
‘Bodacious’ mentorship, honesty needed to retain LTC leaders of tomorrow, experts say
By
Josh Henreckson
May 17, 2024
Cultivating mentorships in long-term care is vital to bringing up and retaining the next generation of sector leaders, a group of six prominent women leaders said this week at a McKnight’s Women of Distinction...
Workforce strategies, leadership highlight McKnight’s Women of Distinction Forum May 14
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 07, 2024
Ten McKnight’s Women of Distinction will share pearls of wisdom and answer questions next week during two educational sessions as part of the McKnight’s Women of Distinction Forum and Awards.