Michael (“Mitch”) Levy began his career in the field of education in some of the most troubling institutions for high school students in Brooklyn, NY in the late 90’s. Spending time in education was a natural progression for the talents and passion Mitch had since an early age.

Mitch started and ran a successful “Go On Graduates” program at an inner city high school with the sole mission of keeping high school kids in school long enough to be able to convince them to proceed to higher education. Having a 30 percent success rate in this venture gave Mitch the success he needed to get the program off the ground.

In 2001 Mitch founded and led an undergrad higher education program for
college aged students in Brooklyn NY. As the founding Dean of this institution, Mitch was responsible for the curriculum development and seeing it through to its founding class of graduates. Having an initial success in this program, Mitch expanded recruitment and opened a dormitory to allow students to reside on campus and enhance their undergrad experience. In his role as Dean and Co-Founder of the school, Mitch taught higher education classes in Philosophy, Jewish History, and Talmudic Law.

Looking for a change of scenery and a drive for his natural leadership role, Mitch decided to embark on a new mission. After a successful 15 years in education, Mitch enter the field of Long Term Care. Beginning at ground level in this highly competitive and challenging field, Mitch embraced the challenge and worked his way through the ranks in the Administrator In Training (AIT) position.

In his first LTC position, Mitch was tasked with assuming responsibilities of the Maintenance, Housekeeping and Dietary departments while maintaining full compliance with local, state, and federal life safety regulations. Transitioning from there, Mitch became the Administrator of Record with a 1 tag annual state survey.

After 2 years at Global Healthcare, Mitch was recruited to work at Marquis Healthcare Services based in Brick, NJ. Mitch successfully transitioned the SNF from prior owners to Marquis as well as transitioning an Assisted Living unit to a fully licensed and fully functional SNF unit with a focus on Subacute care.

In his stint at Marquis, Mitch reduced expenses to a company best HPPD (Hourly Per Patient Day) rate within the entire Marquis organization.

In 2018, Mitch returned to the original facility where he started out as an AIT to assume the AOR role at Caring Heart Nursing and Rehab. In this 250 bed SNF, Mitch trained and recruited key leadership personnel for the clinical and operations department in a very challenging facility located in inner city Philadelphia. Mitch maintained high occupancy rates while focusing on successful patient outcomes, strong clinical leadership and improvement on expense and budget reduction efforts.

In 2020, a few short weeks before the Covid-19 Pandemic, Mitch began his role at Paramount Healthcare Services as a Senior Administrator in a south New Jersey facility. In this role at Paramount, Mitch spent a great deal of time and effort developing and implementing Infection Control policies and procedures. This resulted in three deficiency free
Infection Control Surveys and only one deficiency during Annual Survey amidst several Covid outbreaks. Mitch successfully led the rebuilding efforts at Paramount after several Covid related deaths and loss of staff due to the pandemic. Mitch joined Recover-Care Colorado as COO in June 2021.

April Batdorf is a Nursing Home Administrator licensed in Colorado. Practicing as an Administrator since 2015, April has robust experience in working in the field of long term care with proven financial and regulatory outcomes.

April is a Colorado native who studied at the University of Northern Colorado, located in Greeley, Colorado. Throughout college, April worked as both a Certified Nurse Aide and Activities Director at a nursing facility near her home.

After graduating with a degree in Gerontology in 2006, she then started her journey as a Long Term Care Case Manager with the Weld County Area Agency on Aging. As a case manager, April was responsible for completing eligibility assessments of those who were elderly, blind, or disabled and arranging services as appropriate to meet their needs from home health services to nursing home placement. Ongoing case management, including quarterly and annual in-person visits of a caseload of over 100 clients was also required.

Beginning in 2011, April became a Long Term Care Compliance Inspector with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. In this role, April was responsible to ensure nursing facilities followed both state and federal regulations by completing routine and complaint inspections and writing detailed, defensible deficiencies if corrective action was warranted. In 2013, April was promoted to be a Long Term Care Compliance Inspector Supervisor, where she supervised a regional team of four surveyors.

In late 2014, April applied to an Administrator-In-Training program with SavaSeniorCare. April successfully completed a 1000-hour state approved training program which spanned two diverse facilities. Once a licensed Nursing Home Administrator, April began operating her first facility, the 76-bed Berthoud Living Center. April was able to grow
census from the low 50s to capacity within the first year and increase margin from 8% to over 30% through successful business practices. April was promoted to the 120-bed Applewood Living Center in 2017 where she was able to eliminate agency utilization and drove the team to the best regulatory outcomes it had had in it the facility’s history.

In 2019, April left SavaSeniorCare for an opportunity to open a new 54-bed skilled nursing facility. She was responsible to implementing policies and procedures, recruiting and hiring qualified candidates for multiple facilities and disciplines, and hosting marketing and executing business development ideas to grow census from the ground up. April was able to build census to 35 in a short-term-rehab facility only three months after obtaining certification in a competitive market.

In mid-2020, April was warmly welcomed back to SavaSeniorCare as a multi-facility operator. As a District Director of Operations, April is responsible to oversee the operational, regulatory, and clinical outcomes of 10+ facilities and holds the administrators professionally
accountable to achieve goals. A hands-on operator, April travels to each center she supports routinely.

April’s philosophy throughout her career has been to lead by example. With the diverse long term care and leadership experience she has gained over the past fifteen years, she is ready to tackle the evolving world of healthcare as an irrefutable skilled nursing facility operator.

Michelle started her career in long term care almost 30 years ago. Beginning with working in the kitchen and housekeeping departments in a local facility, while she obtained her C.N.A license. Once certified, Michelle worked as a C.N.A while concurrently attending nursing school. As a nurse, Michelle gained experience as a Floor Nurse, Staff Development Coordinator, Nurse Aide class Instructor, and Unit Manager prior to becoming the Director of Nursing in 2008 at Four Corners Health Care in Durango, CO. In 2013, Michelle was given the opportunity to move into the role of Licensed Nursing Home Administrator. This position provided her the ability to better advocate for the residents she served and to focus on culture change and improving the residents’ quality of life. Michelle became certified in Dementia care, Music and Memory, CPI and the Eden Alternative and was able to quickly implement change within the facility. In 2017, Michelle was given the opportunity to move into the position of District Director of Clinical Services for Sava Senior Care. She provided clinical and regulatory oversight for three buildings on the Western Slope of Colorado and 2 facilities in New Mexico.

In Michelle’s current role as Vice President of Operations and Regional Nurse Consultant with Recover-Care West, she provides operations, clinical and regulatory oversight for the three buildings the company operates on the Western Slope of Colorado. She currently resides in Montrose Colorado with her husband and children.

Chris/Mr. Ross has 20 years experience in the healthcare industry. With over 13 years in the post-acute space, he has specific experience with large scale national and regional skilled nursing providers with focus on business planning, execution, operational excellence, turnarounds, as well as clinical program development. His leadership tactics focus primarily on quality and collaboration, bringing together internal and external partners across the operation, clinical, finance, and sales disciplines. His approach has led to strategic acute and post-acute partnerships that have created positive and lasting impacts on the industry.

Danna Huser started her career and her journey 27 ½ years ago as a receptionist in a facility in Colorado. She has worked hard and held multiple positions throughout the years which include, Laundry Aide, Payroll Coordinator, Admissions Coordinator and Business Office Director.

While Danna was in the business office, she wanted to advance her leadership skills by mentoring and training other Business Office Directors on how to be successful in their career.

The inspiration and motivation to help others lead to her becoming a Regional Collections Manager where she was responsible for up to 18 facilities Accounts Receivables, training/mentoring Business Office Directors and ensuring the facilities were following policies and procedures.

After years of doing this, Danna wanted to make a bigger impact so she completed an Administrator in Training Program, where she would learn how to become an Administrator. She set out to complete her training because her passion for serving such a vulnerable long term care community was the career path that she always wanted to be a part of, with the goal to make a bigger impact in the lives of those we serve in our nursing homes. Danna worked hard and became an Administrator in 2013 and has run a successful facility where she has received multiple awards. She has served as a preceptor for multiple AITs with proven success in their career path. She had great survey and financial outcomes. Her motto is to “make sure your residents and staff are happy and everything else will fall into place.” Which she lives by still to this day.

In 2021 she accepted the Director of Operations position at Recover-Care West and has loved every minute of being a part of a talented team of Clinical and Operational leadership.

In Danna’s spare time she enjoys spending time with her husband, Randy. She also loves golfing, gardening, baking, and spending time with her family.

Corrie Hopler is a Colorado-based Registered Nurse with a proven record of positive regulatory and clinical outcomes. She has dedicated her career to serving the geriatric and long-term care populations. As a child, Corrie frequently volunteered in the nursing home in which her mother worked, calling bingo and reading to the residents. Corrie’s passion for long-term care grew out of those experiences.

For sixteen years, Corrie has worked in the long-term industry as a CNA, LPN and RN. Her leadership roles have included Staff Development Coordinator, Assistant Director of Nursing and Director of Nursing.

In 2015, Corrie joined the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment as a Nurse Compliance Investigator. While she enjoyed her role with the state, Corrie was eager to return to long-term care.

In 2017, she accepted a position as District Director of Clinic Services. She has also worked as Division Director of Clinical Education and Infection Prevention. Corrie’s philosophy is to support direct care staff by providing encouragement, education, and professional development. Her goal is to empower each team to be able to provide residents with the highest possible quality of care.

In 2020, Corrie received the Denver Channel 7 Everyday Hero Award for her work with Sew It For Covid, a Facebook group she created to provide homemade PPE to nursing homes. Over the course of several months, the group, which grew to over 2,000 members, provided tens of thousands of homemade masks, surgical caps, and isolation gowns to nursing homes, Native Americans, medical clinics and others in need.

Corrie enjoys hiking

Diana Welch is a Registered Nurse based in Colorado practicing since 2004. She has 17 years of experience in serving the geriatric population and all the long-term care environment serves. Diana has a passionate dedication to long-term care and service to the geriatric population.

Diana’s career started as a Licensed Practical Nurse in a long term care facility, after obtaining her Bachelors of Science-Nursing her career flourished in to various leadership positions including Staff Development Coordinator, Assistant Director of Nursing and Director of Nursing. Currently Diana has supported and mentored staff and nursing leadership as a Regional Consultant. Within that role of support and leadership, Diana has focused on exceptional resident care, positive clinical and regulatory outcomes. She leads by example and is known for providing positive feedback and ensuring clinical success through education and identification of opportunities.

Diana lives in Southern Colorado with her husband Rome and their two daughters. She was a military kid growing up and spent many years traveling all over the world to various duty stations her father was assigned to. During her free time Diana enjoys teaching her daughters how to bake and spending time with family and friends.

Melanie Churchill began her nursing career as a CNA in 2008. She earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing, from Midwestern State University in 2011, where she graduated Cum Laud. Her extensive management experience and her incredible warm-hearted approach to patient care made her journey to nurse consulting inevitable.

After college she started out as a floor nurse. While working the floor, her leadership and management style was quickly recognized. She has held numerous positions from MDS, ADON, and DON. Her eventual promotion to nursing consultant in 2015 meant she had landed her dream job. As a nurse consultant, she has supported 16 facilities across 5 states.

Melanie is truly passionate about her role, whether she is consulting or training; her ultimate goal is that every individual will take the information imparted and instill positive changes in their own environment. She prides herself in staying abreast of the continual changes affecting all of our programs and promote the adherence of these regulations.

Melanie is a proud wife and mother of two beautiful children. She enjoys entirely too many scripted dramas, and can be found most weekends, partaking in a plethora of family activities.

Trista received her Doctorate in Physical Therapy at Upstate Medical University in 2011. She started her career at Fort Collins Health Care Center in Colorado as a Physical Therapist. She continued her career growth moving into Director of Rehab role which lead to a Regional Director of Rehabilitation position supporting multiple states including Colorado, California, and Wyoming.

Trista is passionate about caring for older adults and enjoys making a positive difference in the lives of our residents. She continues to focus on providing superior skilled therapy services while bringing a smile to everyone around her.

Trista is married and has a son named Tristan and an adorable chocolate lab. She enjoys hiking, fishing, and camping with her family in her free time.

Tana has a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the University of Colorado and a Masters of Social Work from Colorado State University.  She has worked in long-term care for 30+ years.  She began her career in long-term care, in an Intermediate Care Facility for the Intellectually Disabled.  She fell in love with long-term care while working with these residents.

Following the ICF/ID, she transitioned to long-term care as an Activities Assistant and Social Services Assistant.  She was later promoted to full-time Social Services Assistant and then Social Services Director for several facilities.  Two of the communities where she worked had a high percentage of residents with major mental illnesses, personality disorders, TBI’s and other behavioral challenges.  In one facility, Tana was the Social Services Assistant for the 24-bed secured unit, which she loved.  This experience sparked her love of working with persons with mental illnesses.

Tana was also a long-term care surveyor for 3 ½ years with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.  This was an excellent opportunity to learn the regulations for long-term care, and helped her to develop her knowledge base and learn multiple problem-solving approaches that nursing homes could implement in order to improve quality of life and quality of care for all residents.

Following her time with CDPHE, Tana became co-owner of a Social Work Consulting company.  Together with her business partner, and other LCSW’s, the company provided social work consultation to 60+ nursing homes across Colorado and Wyoming.  Tana’s goal with consultation is to educate and empower Social Services staff to provide the highest practicable psychosocial well-being for the residents.

During the COVID pandemic, while working from home, Tana studied to become a Nursing Home Administrator.  She worked as the NHA for a small, privately-owned community with a younger population of residents with primary mental illnesses, developmental disabilities, and behavioral challenges.  She successfully navigated the facility through 5 surveys, including one annual survey and one federal look-behind survey.  After her 10-month time at this community, the facility was fully back in compliance with all deficiencies

Tana is an educator and has presented on a variety of topics for Colorado Health Care Association and other agencies.  Areas of specialty include:  Survey preparation and management, Behavioral Interventions, PASRR, Psychoactive Medications, Trauma-Informed Care, Residents Rights.  She is a Certified CPI Instructor for Dementia-Capable Care and a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional.

Tana is a Colorado native and a huge Broncos fan, even when they’re not doing so well.  She lives in Broomfield with her wife Holly, and they enjoy walking, hiking, camping, golf and travelling.

Lorinda Durnil has been in the long term care profession for 23 years. Lorinda’s initial career as a nurse began serving people with Developmental Disabilities. She was the Director of Health Services
and assisted the State of Colorado with transitioning those in institutional living to community based living. She then began working on a sub-acute unit caring for patients new to ventilators with a program to rehab and wean off of the ventilators. She became the Nurse Manager of the unit and eventually the Assistant Director of Nursing. Before transitioning to a different company she held the Interim Director of Nursing position guiding the 220 bed facility through state and federal surveys.

Lorinda began her career in Clinical Reimbursement in 2002 as an MDS Director. She found passion in the experience of Clinical Quality, coordinating skilled services and resident centered care planning processes. She accepted a position as Regional MDS Consultant in 2007 which gave her the opportunity to support multiple facilities with the RAI process, care plan correlation, care and assessment processes as well as clinical reimbursement.

Lorinda took advantage of an opportunity to be a Regional Clinical Director for a couple of years during this time to learn regulations and support Directors of Nursing in leadership skills, regulatory
preparation, clinical outcomes and clinical facility systems. She returned to the Regional clinical Reimbursement role and has enjoyed this for the past several years.

Lorinda enjoys mentorship and educating facility MDS teams, strategizing clinical reimbursement and capturing appropriate acuity. She is passionate about problem solving, learning new changes in the
process and maximizing clinical capture and reimbursement. She has had success in providing support to multiple facilities as many as 26 by improving case mix index, case mix groups and Quality 5 star points as a whole.

Lorinda holds a Certification with AANAC and is a long standing member of the organization. Lorinda has gained experience through her various roles in healthcare, several successful mentors and while self-driven to ensure the latest updates are held she truly enjoys the concept of a team and working to make others’ lives better.

Lorinda lives in Loveland Colorado and in her personal time enjoys being outside, walks, watching movies, spending time with her nieces and nephews, and challenging herself with video games.

Helen was born and raised in Pocahontas, Arkansas where she earned her Certificate as a Licensed Vocational Nurse in 1996 at Black River Technical College. Helen started her career in nursing as a hospice home health nurse in Arkansas and then moved to Texas in 1997 where she worked full time as a School Nurse and worked PRN for Home Health and Nursing Homes during summer breaks.

Helen started her MDS Career in 1999 at Lumberton Nursing and Rehab and then at Kountze Nursing Center in 2005 where she was promoted to Regional Care Management Director in 2007, there she assisted in the transition of Texas Medicaid TILES to MDS as well as MDS 2.0 to MDS 3.0. Helen earned her RAC-CT through AANAC in 2008.

Helen has over 20 years in Long Term Care, she is passionate when it comes to the care of the elderly, she believes that all residents should be treated with respect and dignity just as you would treat you own family. Helen and her husband, Eugene, live in Southeast Texas. They have 4 grown children and 6 grandchildren. When not working Helen enjoys going to the beach, reading, camping and spending time with her family.

Miranda is a homegrown Colorado native serving the long-term care community for over 10 years. She is an accomplished marketing professional with demonstrated success in developing and implementing strategic approaches to drive market growth and bottom-line profitability. She has proven success through physician alignment, spearheading the process of hospital preferred network agreements, and participated in the Accountable Care Organization. At the age of 19 she received her CNA License and began her career in healthcare serving on the on the front lines. From the moment she put on her first set of scrubs she knew her calling was advocating and caring for the elderly and the most vulnerable population. As she continued to provide direct care, compassion, and customer service for the residents and staff, in 2013 her career expanded to develop and implement customer service initiatives throughout 14 nursing homes across 4 states.

She became a Regional Director of Customer Service which would focus on improved customer experience and satisfaction programs. She continues to strive for excellence and with her competitive nature and dedicated drive she was introduced to the sales and marketing field where she honed in her skills and strengths as a leader in Business Development. Miranda is a natural communicator with strong leadership skills and high energy. Impactful and successful manager proficient in building teams and motivating personnel to improved levels of performance.

Miranda currently is a member of the weld county and Larimer county coalition, senior advisory board, and avidly involved with the Alzheimer’s association. Miranda has always been a hands-on leader and understands the impact of fostering and nurturing key relationships.

Miranda is a proud mother of 3 beautiful children Mia, Maelynn, and Monix. In her leisure time she enjoys camping, fishing, and spending quality time with her family. She is eager to take on new challenges and reach greater heights while empowering those around her.