Tina Sandri, LHNA, Quality Assurance Process Improvement Certified Professional

CEO
Forest Hills of DC

Tina Sandri, MHSA, LNHA, QCP, RYT-200 is CEO of Forest Hills of DC, a continuum of senior living services that has served residents for 135+ years, including assisted living, memory care, long- and short-stay skilled care, respite, and hospice care. Her healthcare career began when she volunteered in a nursing home and Howard Univ Hospital, a top HBCU, while in high school. She has led in for-profit, non-profit, chain, and free-standing healthcare environments, including hospitals and CCRCs. Sandri currently serves on the AHCA Board of Governors. She is the Immediate Past Chair of DCHCA, the DC affiliate of AHCA/NCAL, and has served on the Board of Leading Age DC. She is currently pursuing her 500-hour certification as a yoga instructor and integrates her yoga practice into her leadership style. Past successes with her teams include achieving the 4th Magnet/Pathways to Excellence certified nursing home in the USA, introducing a robot to a senior living community that became a Time Magazine cover story about resident engagement, and being awarded global Ambassador of the Year by Aging2.0 for mentoring entreprenuers at the intersection of aging and innovation. Her team's person-centered approach to employee vaccinations has been featured on the front page of The New York Times, CNN, Becker’s Hospital Review, McKnight’s Senior Living, and Spain’s #1 Public TV broadcast station. Her passion for workforce solutions incorporates a mind/body/spirit approach to optimize resilient teams as we all make our way past the Covid-19 pandemic. A QAPI certified professional, she is focused on teaching positive process change management. As an AIT preceptor, she has trained diverse leaders to become NHAs in senior living. Her love for #OldPeopleAreCool is consistent with her cultural values as an Asian-American, as she was taught to always respect and care for her elders anywhere and everywhere. Sandri's personal and professional mission is to do good, create abundance, and have some fun along the way.

Presentation(s):

• NFP/ID-3 - Building Employee Resiliency through Person-Centered Approaches

  Tuesday, October 11, 2022
  9:30 AM – 10:30 AM CT

  I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.