Editor’s Note: We are profiling the McKnight’s 2020 Women of Distinction honorees daily through the program’s July 28 online awards ceremony. To learn more about this digital celebration, the Forum the next day (which offers three free continuing education credits July 29) or the program in general, visit mcknightswomenofdistinction.com.
Mandy Lynch’s entire long-term care career has been with Providence Health Care in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN.
She joined the skilled nursing facility in 2013 on an unpaid internship with the administrator/CEO and chief financial officer, learning operations and basic financial functions and data-inputting. After graduating from Butler University in 2014 with a degree in science, technology and society, she became a financial office assistant while pursuing her master’s degree in healthcare administration at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College.
Lynch completed the administrator-in-training program and moved into the chief operating officer position, assuming responsibility of facility ancillary operations, including laundry, dietary, building and maintenance, supply and housekeeping. In 2016, she assumed her current role as president and CEO at just 25 years old.
Under her leadership, Providence Health Care was the first and only facility in the area to accept patients on ventilators, creating a ventilator program for respiratory patients. She also launched a Music and Memory program and implemented facility-wide dementia/Alzheimer’s training.
Dedicated to community service, Lynch has volunteered at Union Hospital, the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis and for the Sisters of Providence. She has served as vice president of outreach service for the Lilly Scholars Network, vice president of operations for the Butler University Student Government Finance Board, and vice president of membership for the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women. She also has fostered several children in addition to rearing her own two children.
Lynch is a 2019 recipient of the Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce and Tribune-Star “Top 12 Under 40” Award. Under her leadership, Providence Health Care was recognized as Best Nursing Home by the Tribune-Star’s 11th annual Readers’ Choice Awards and Best Rehab Facility in the Wabash Valley.
The McKnight’s Women of Distinction program is jointly administered by McKnight’s Senior Living and McKnight’s Long-Term Care News. The program’s Diamond sponsor is PointClickCare. Silver sponsors are OnShift and PharMerica, and the Signature sponsors are Acadia Pharmaceuticals and Enquire.
