Stacey is an accomplished healthcare professional with over 15 years of experience in the senior living sector, where she has led operational management, regulatory compliance, and quality care initiatives. She has guided communities through successful turnarounds, mergers and acquisitions, as well as periods of growth— both organic and transactional, in a series of advisory positions and managerial assignments.
Stacey has built a proven record of improving both performance and resident outcomes. Her effectiveness in the senior living sector derives from an extensive track record of meeting and exceeding strategic and operational objectives, rooted from her commitment and passion for the senior population served by her clients. With extensive experience in operations, quality care, and regulatory compliance, as well as executive leadership in the turnaround management and M&A of troubled senior communities: Stacey possesses a deep knowledge of the full continuum of the senior living industry.
Stacey graduated Magna Cum Laude from American Intercontinental University with a BA in Business Administration in Health Care after earlier attending Brigham Young University. She holds a Category II Assisted Living/Memory Care License in the state of Alabama and is a Certified Dementia Practitioner and Certified Alzheimer’s Disease Dementia Care Trainer licensed from the National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners. Stacey actively participates in the Alzheimer’s Association and has been appointed to the National Association of Long Term Care Administrator Boards (NAB), serving on the NCERS and the RCAL committees.
Key Skills & Expertise
Operations management
Performance improvement
Strategic marketing
Regulatory compliance
Turnaround management
Quality care/ customer service
Leadership
Team building
Specialist Industries
Spent the last 15 years specializing in the senior and assisted living sectors:
Independent Living
Assisting Living
Memory Care
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Project Director and Vice President for two distressed assisted living / memory care communities in receivership, with full responsibility for the financial, census, operational, and regulatory compliance for 9 months. Communities were sold in a bundled package and bond holders received 100% return.
Managed operational transition solely for two months from one management company to another for two troubled large assisted living / memory care communities in Florida. Increased census and revenue dramatically to refrain from bond default prior to the new 3rd party managers start date, while overseeing all aspects of operations and resident care.
Represented ownership for a construction project for a large senior living community in Florida that was running $1M over budget and behind schedule. Turned project under budget and on schedule to satisfaction of the owners.
Created operational efficiencies as Executive Director of a retirement community in Birmingham, AL, increasing sustained minimum occupancy rates to 96%. Increased EBITDA margins from 40% in 2011 to 50% in 2012 while operating low staff turnover of the 113-bed assisted living facility.
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Magna Cum Laude from American Intercontinental University with a BA in Business Administration – Health Care Management, after earlier attending Brigham Young University.
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Category II Assisted Living / Memory
Care License (Alabama)
Certified Dementia Practitioner
Certified Alzheimer's Disease
Dementia Care Trainer
National Association of Long Term
Care Administrator Boards (NAB), serving on the NCERS and the RCAL committees
Member, Alabama Assisted Living Association
Alzheimer’s Association
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