Life Care Centers of America recently appointed Nancy Butner as vice president of its Northwest Division.

In this role, Butner will oversee operations — including clinical and rehabilitation care and customer service — at 28 skilled nursing facilities in Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Washington. She will be based in Federal Way, WA.

Butner has worked for Life Care Centers of America since 2003, when she started as executive director at Life Care Center of Kirkland, WA. She served in that role for 14 years before stepping into the position of regional vice president for Life Care’s Cascades Region in Washington in 2017.

Prior to Life Care, Butner worked for Sun Healthcare. She has 20 years of experience in senior healthcare and holds a master’s degree in business administration from City University of Seattle and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Western Washington University.