Creating ‘fixers’ for a new generation of nursing home leadership
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 07, 2023
Indiana’s largest skilled nursing operator is developing a new program to advance leaders across the organization’s footprint, focusing on soft skills and people management techniques that are necessary...
Bake in success with advanced clinicians in place: BrightSpring Health’s Arif Nazir, MD
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 26, 2023
Many nursing homes are moving too quickly to implement evolving technologies before their worth is fully known, cautions national nursing home medical expert Arif Nazir.
Van Camp to follow Kelsey as CEO of American Senior Communities
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 26, 2023
American Senior Communities this week announced that CEO Donna Kelsey, in collaboration with the ASC board, has appointed Steve Van Camp to succeed her effective June 1.
ASC appoint Sabatine general counsel
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 01, 2023
Cate Sabatine has been appointed general counsel of American Senior Communities, Indiana’s largest senior care provider, the company announced Jan. 30.
Rehydrating skilled nursing: American Senior Communities’ Jerald Cosey
By
Kimberly Hartley
Dec 05, 2022
Just as Jerald Cosey’s lengthy pharmaceutical sales career had reached a peak — leading a team of his choosing to sell a new Pfizer medication — he resigned. It was 2013 and the husband and father...
Mindy Shapiro named chief compliance officer at ASC
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 15, 2022
American Senior Communities in late July announced Mindy Shapiro as it new chief compliance officer.
American Senior Communities’ Donna Kelsey: Recruiting partners and investing in the future
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 10, 2022
Investments in innovation and a willingness to forge new partnerships will help lift skilled nursing providers out of the COVID-era, predicts veteran nursing homes leader Donna Kelsey.
Judge denies appeal by Burkhart, former American Senior Communities CEO serving 10 years for audacious...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 18, 2021
A federal judge has denied a motion by former American Senior Communities CEO James Burkhart to throw out his felony fraud convictions, ruling that his law firm’s conflict of interest did not adversely...
‘Secret’ report alleges massive ASC fraud had 20 more co-conspirators, $20 million more in losses
By
James M. Berklan
Aug 10, 2020
One of the largest nursing home-related fraud stories of the last decade, involved the top executive of Indiana’s largest publicly owned SNF company, American Senior Communities, and four others being...
Senior living executives sentenced
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jul 10, 2018
The former chief operating officer of American Senior Communities was sentenced to 4½ years in prison last week as part of a fraud scheme that also took down the company’s CEO.