Kelly Conk has been named administrator of the new Orchards Health Center in Rancho Mission Viejo, CA.
The community is scheduled to open this month with 58 assisted living apartments and 1 20-bed memory care neighborhood. A 71-bed skilled nursing facility is expected to follow in early 2021. The Orchards will serve the adjacent Reata Glen Life Care community and the general public.
Conk is a licensed nursing home administrator and a certified Residential Care for the Elderly administrator in California. Prior to joining The Orchards, she was vice president of operations for a healthcare management company and the administrator of a five-star skilled nursing facility in Long Beach, CA.
She was also the owner and president of Post-Acute Care Management Inc., where she developed and implemented transitional care programs between skilled nursing facilities and acute care hospitals.
Conk graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor of science. She later graduated from the California Association of Health Facilities’ Long-term Care Leadership Academy and the California Department of Public Health Nursing Home Administrator preceptor program.
She is the recipient of the American Health Care Association’s Facility Quality Award and the American College of Health Care Administrators’ “Eli Pick Facility Leadership Award.”
