Frank Barber, has over 16 years experience in healthcare compliance, quality improvement and system analysis. Experience includes process improvement leadership; management experience. He has experience providing consultative support to nursing home and hospital providers in central Texas relative to the implementation of evidence-based Appropriate Care Measures.

Robert Jenkens, is the Director of the Green House Project, an alternative to the institutional nursing home model that makes full use of Medicaid dollars and innovative designs to offer independence and dignity to residents. Mr. Jenkens is also Vice President at NCB Capital Impact, where he provides policy and development consulting to states and organizations interested in promoting quality assisted living.

Dr. Rosalie A. Kane is a professor for the Division of Health Services Research and Policy, School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota School.  She also serves as the Director of the National Long-Term Care Resource Center at the University. Dr. Kane’s research interests includes: financing long-term care in community care, assisted living, nursing homes, family care, quality of life, and ethics and values.  She has written or assisted on numerous publications including Practical Strategies to Transform Nursing Home Environments Manual co-developed by Lois Culter.

Tiffany Langham, has experience with quality improvement processes; pressure ulcer prevention; restraint reduction; workforce retention. She has over 16 years nursing experience; 13 years of long term care and over 4 years as a quality improvement consultant.

Debi Majo, has 28 years of professional nursing experience; eight years in critical care nursing and twenty years in long term care nursing. She has worked as a regional nurse consultant; director of nursing; staff development specialist and long term care surveyor. Currently in her role at TMF, she assists facilities achieve quality improvement for the services to the communities they support.

Melody Malone, has over 30 years of experience in a variety of healthcare settings to include nursing home restraint reduction, pressure ulcer prevention, decreasing the signs and symptoms of depression, improving pain management and culture change.  She has been a research assistant in an AHRQ sponsored study on antibiotic stewardship in nursing homes. Most recently she has provided consulting services to both the long term care skilled nursing facility and long term acute care hospital arenas, with up to 144 facilities at one time for management and consultation. This has allowed her to develop programs that were utilized on the national level as well as provide consulting for OBRA, CARF and JCAHO survey preparation and compliance.

Dr. Richard Nauert, is a professor for the School of Health Administration at Texas State University – San Marcos.  Dr. Nauert has published the Adaptive Music/Dance Therapy: an Activity to Improve Quality of Life in Long-Term Care Settings in 2010 as a direct result of research conducted on the topic.  He has received academic credentials in the areas of physical therapy, health fitness management, health care administration, and information science.

Florence Rodgers, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Huston-Tillotson College in Austin, Texas, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Professional Nursing from the University of Texas Health Science Center.   Ms. Rodgers began her career with DADS in 2005 as a Nurse Surveyor and Investigator in Regulatory Services.  She joined Educational Services in February 2008 as a Nurse Joint Training Specialist.

Carla Smith, has more than 25 years experience in nursing, with over 23 years in long term care.  She held a position of Director of Nurses for 7 years and has been in her current position as Quality Improvement Consultant for TMF since July 2003.