Oakwood Village, Madison’s largest retirement care organization, is hiring a new company after its previous leader resigned in December amid concerns from some residents about financial decisions and the qualifications he claimed. Appointed CEO.
Janice Hamilton-Crawford is Appointed CEO of Michigan-based Trinity Health Senior Community He, who left Trinity in May 2022 and left Trinity in January, will become Oakwood’s CEO on October 31, Oakwood spokeswoman Monique Banas said. Hamilton-Crawford has worked for Trinity, a Catholic nonprofit organization, since 2018, serving as president of New England Senior Communities with nine facilities in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine.
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Previously, he worked for CHRISTUS Health System, a Catholic nonprofit organization based in Texas, for 30 years, including as chairman. Hamilton-Crawford holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. She has been active in the American College of Healthcare Executives, American Hospital Association, and Catholic Health Association.
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Reginald Hislop III resigned as Oakwood’s CEO last year after resident groups criticized financial decisions that involved allegedly high-risk investments that led to losses of nearly $19 million in 2022 as the stock market fell. . Their concerns about his qualifications included a graduate degree he claimed to have earned from the university, but he told the Wisconsin State Journal he had no record of such a degree.
Hislop told the State Journal he left the organization in a “much better position” than when he started and called the “confusion” by residents “unsettling.”
Calvin Williams, Oakwood’s former chairman of the board, initially served as interim CEO, and Kevin Hayden most recently served in that role.
In March, Oakwood Village opened a new 60-bed nursing home known as Hebron Oaks Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center at the University Woods Campus on Madison’s West Side. It replaced his 70-bed nursing home built in 1963.
As of March, Oakwood had 785 housing units across its two campuses. University Woods, off Mineral Point Road, had 215 independent living apartments, 60 assisted living rooms, 40 memory care beds, and his 375 units in Hebron Oaks.
Prairie Ridge, located off the American Parkway on Madison’s far east side, has 410 units: 277 independent living, 73 assisted living, 20 memory care, and 40 senior beds. There was a home.
