McKnight’s 40 for 40

Dr. Bill Thomas defies easy description.

Assistance and compassion seem to fit Brenda Bacon like a glove. She has been wearing both of them well her entire life.

How different is Ventas since Debra Cafaro took over? Only about as different as night and day.

When people discuss how freely capital now flows in this sector, demographics and a strong economy usually get the credit. Often overlooked is the man perhaps most responsible for opening the spigot: Robert G. Kramer.

Who’s the single person perhaps most responsible for a large-scale exodus of residents from nursing homes to senior living communities in recent decades? Former Sunrise Senior Living Chairman and CEO Paul Klaassen.

Elma Holder may have been an industry outsider, but she arguably did more than any other person in the past four decades to change the way nursing homes function.

Whoever said to leave things better than you found them must have had Bruce Yarwood in mind.