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LCS promotes Jason Victor, Ross Kelderman
Jason Victor has been promoted to the position of senior vice president / treasurer and corporate finance at Des Moines, IA-based Life Care Services, an LCS company, and Ross Kelderman has been promoted to the position of controller of LCS.
In addition to his current responsibilities, Victor now will lead LCS risk management, including the LCS Advantage insurance program and Hexagon, a captive insurance company.
Having joined LCS in 2007 as controller, Victor was promoted to vice president / controller in 2013 and senior vice president / controller in 2019. He provides leadership to the corporate accounting, corporate payroll and community payroll functions as well as the treasury and tax departments. He also guides audits, internal controls, technical accounting and tax and financial management systems.
Hexagon was founded in 1999 to support the LCS Advantage insurance program, which markets insurance products to LCS-managed communities, including workers’ compensation, auto, crime, property and boiler, and liability. Victor has served on the Hexagon board of directors since 2017.
Victor holds an undergraduate degree in accounting from the University of Northern Iowa. He is a certified public accountant with an active license in the state of Iowa.
Kelderman, in his new role as controller, will oversee and provide leadership to LCS’ corporate accounting, financial reporting, audits and finance technology. He joined the company in 2015 as director, accounting and financial reporting, and was promoted to senior director of accounting and reporting in 2020.
Kelderman holds both an undergraduate degree and a master’s degree in accounting from Iowa State University. He also is a certified public accountant with an active license in the state of Iowa.
Erickson promotes Jennifer Tam, MD, to VP and regional medical director
Jennifer Tam, MD, has been named vice president and regional medical director of the Erickson Health Medical Group.
She will oversee the medical centers at Erickson Senior Living-managed communities in Colorado (Wind Crest), Kansas (Tallgrass Creek), Maryland (Riderwood) and Massachusetts (Brooksby Village and Linden Ponds) while also providing strategic direction for EHMG’s health and well-being initiatives.
Tam joined the medical team of Linden Ponds continuing care retirement community in 2005 after completing a fellowship in geriatrics at Harvard Medical School and serving patients as a primary care provider at the Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly in Boston. In 2015, she was promoted to the leadership position of medical director at Linden Ponds, and in 2021, she began supporting the medical centers of Brooksby Village and Riderwood.
Tam earned her undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines, and completed a residency in internal medicine at Montefiore Health System in New York before her fellowship.
Anthem Memory Care promotes Michael Zywicki to VP of programs and engagement
Michael Zywicki has been promoted to the position of vice president of programs and engagement at Oregon-based Anthem Memory Care. He will oversee Anthem Memory Care’s culture.
Previously, Zywicki was operations specialist for Anthem Memory Care. He also served as area director of operations at Cedarhurst Senior Living of Michigan.
Zywicki brings more than 18 years of operations experience to this position. He holds an undergraduate degree in healthcare administration from Alma College in Alma, MI.
Selectis Health names Jim Creamer interim CFO, adds Clifford Neuman to board
Jim Creamer has been named interim chief financial officer, and Clifford Neuman has been added to the board of directors at Greenwood Village, CO-based Selectis Health, which owns or operates independent living, assisted living, memory care and continuing care retirement communities, as well as skilled nursing facilities and other offerings, in Arkansas, Georgia, Ohio and Oklahoma.
Creamer brings almost 20 years of experience in public company leadership roles to the role. He also is the principal of Corporate Solutions Advisors, which offers outsourced, fractional CFO services to small, growth-oriented companies across several industries. His career also includes service as the CFO and a director of both Virtual Interactive Technologies Corp., a publicly traded video game development company, and WestMountain Gold, a publicly traded mining company.
Before his role at WestMountain Gold, Creamer was the CFO of NexCore Healthcare Capital Corp. following the company’s acquisition of CapTerra Financial Group, where he previously was CFO and later CEO. Creamer holds an undergraduate degree in finance from Arizona State University.
Neuman will serve on the Selectis Health board’s audit, nomination and governance, and compensation committees. For more than 50 years, he has been engaged as a principal in his own law firms, with an emphasis on corporate and securities law in the representation of companies across matters of corporate finance, mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, and public and private offerings.
Neuman previously served on the Selectis Health board from 2014 to 2022, and he continues to serve as the company’s primary legal counsel. He earned his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his undergraduate degree, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Trinity College, Hartford, CT.
Kendal at Oberlin CEO Barbara Thonas to retire
Barbara Thomas, CEO of Kendal at Oberlin, Oberlin, OH, will retire in February after 32 years of leading the organization. She began her career with the Kendal affiliate in 1992, one year before the nonprofit continuing care retirement community opened to residents.
Thomas’ career in aging services will span 50 years as of 2024. It began just after college, when she accepted a position working in activities programming at Judson Senior Living in Cleveland. She worked her way up at Judson, obtaining her license in nursing home administration. She worked there until she accepted the opportunity to grow as the administrator of Kendal at Oberlin.
Thomas has been a CARF accreditation peer surveyor for 33 years. She also has served on the boards of LeadingAge, Leading Age Ohio and Friends Services for Aging, among other service. In August, LeadingAge Ohio recognized her with an award for visionary leadership.
Esteam Health names Lane Davy as first president
Lane Davy has been named the first president of Albuquerque, NM-based Esteam Health, a new company aiming to support the development of evidence-based arts and health programs for retirement communities.
Davy will support the company’s strategic initiatives by building and leading the core team across key functions for launch. He brings with him decades of executive experience, having led enterprises and teams in manufacturing, sales, marketing and administration.
Davy joins Esteam Health after it recently completed its first pilot of a new training program, the Art of High-Performance Caregiving, in partnership with Creating Futures that Work.
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