Corporate Team

Board of Directors

Lynn Hodge

Chairman of the Board

Lynn Hodge joined Kissito as the Board Chairman in 2000. After graduating from Bethany Nazarene College (now Southern University) in 1966, Lynn worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of Oklahoma, Kerr McGee Oil Company, LTV Electro Systems, Occidental Petroleum, Texas Commerce Bank, and Bear Sterns Brokerage in various capacities. In 1994, he joined worldwide ministry, Morris Cerullo World Evangelism as Executive Vice President and was responsible for all U.S., Canadian, and European operations. That same year, he also joined Harvest Senior Services as President and Chairman. In 2000, he rejoined Morris Cerullo as Executive Vice President. As the board Chairman, Lynn actively participates in directing Kissito Healthcare activities. He’s also involved in reviewing opportunities for expansion and providing specialized services in particular markets.

Wayne Fuquay CTP

Director

Wayne Fuquay has more than twenty years of consulting experience with publicly and privately owned companies. His own consulting firm specializes in crisis and turnaround management for senior executives of manufacturing and service industry. He has served as interim President and Chief Executive Officer of both public and private companies. In 2001, Wayne served as a Director at a Kissito facility in Hondo, Texas. He’s a Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP) with a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Dallas.

Ana Clarke

Director

Ana Clarke has been actively involved in human services both in the care of children, education, and health care. Ana served as the leader of the Childrens Ministry in her Church and as a native Venezuelan, she spent 4 years in Venezuela working with abandoned children, both as an Administrator of children’s homes and as an administrative officer over nine homes and a school. Since joining the Kissito Healthcare Board of Directors, Ana has served as the Director of Missions engaged in health care projects in Nicaragua, Ethiopia, and Uganda. Ana and her husband Tom are the proud parents of Samuel, born in January 2009.

Reverend David Erickson

Director

After high school graduation, Reverend Erickson served two years of active duty with the United States Marine Corps. Following his service, he worked for many companies in different capacities until 1980, when he graduated from Catonsville College and was ordained into the Baptist ministry. Since then, Reverend Erickson has served as senior pastor of Watersedge Baptist Church.

Tom Clarke

Director

Tom Clarke is passionate about building organizations which make a difference in patient outcomes. Tom spent the first 11 years of his career in the Acute Care setting, holding positions as Associate Administrator and CFO of large academic teaching hospitals, in the University of Massachusetts Medical School system. As CEO of Kissito Healthcare, Tom has focused on quality and operation improvements for a wide range of Post Acute settings over the last 19 years. With the emergence of Health Care Reform, Tom is particularly excited by the opportunities to integrate Acute and Post Acute services under an Accountable Care Organization.

Tom holds a Master’s of Science in Business with a concentration in Health Care Management from the University of Maine. He’s a Licensed Administrator in Texas, Virginia, and Arizona. Tom, his wife Ana, son Samuel and their newest addition, daughter Annasophia, enjoy the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains on their farm outside of Roanoke.

Corporate Management

Tonya McEnheimer

Management Information Specialist

As Management Information Specialist at Kissito, Tonya trains, coordinates and maintains Kissito’s clinical and financial management information systems. She also maintains Kissito’s SharePoint site, coordinates the development and maintenance of Kissito’s website, and is involved with the development and implementation of Kissito’s transition to electronic health records. Tonya oversees all technical aspects of Kissito Healthcare including help desk support, network security, and Internet operations.

Tonya studied Liberal Arts and Health Technology at some of Virginia’s finest colleges and has over 12 years of experience in information technology. She holds a Microsoft Professional Certification.

Tonya was featured in the June 2007 issue of Biztech Magazine.

Alakananda Mohanty

Director- Research & Policy

Alakananda joined Kissito Healthcare in 2008 and appointed to this role as Director – Healthcare Research & Policy in January 2010. In this role, she is responsible for health care utilization and outcomes research primarily focusing on post-acute care services across different post-acute care settings. She is also responsible for strengthening communications and relationships with the company’s potential partners, collaborators such as hospitals, physicians and health maintenance organizations. She started her career with the Denmark Government’s Leprosy Eradication Program in India and worked with Orissa Voluntary Health Association, Rotary International, Global Polio Eradication Program in India and with The University of Texas Medical School, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences and The University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston in different capacities. She is passionate about global health issues and health inequities in particular. Her long-term goal is to address these issues to impact Health Policy.

Alakananda holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Journalism & Mass Communication degree from India and a Master of Public Health degree with a Global Health concentration from The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston.

Kathy Sanders RN, BSN, MHA, LNHA

Director of Clinical Compliance

Kathy Sanders is a Registered Nurse with a Masters degree in Health Care Administration from Hamilton University. She is a licensed Nursing Home Administrator and has been a Director of Nursing Services in long term care for 13 years. Kathy has 10 years of experience in the acute care setting ranging from staff nurse, Quality Improvement Coordinator and Unit Manager on an acute care surgical unit. Prior to becoming a Registered Nurse, Kathy started her career as a CNA and later as a Licensed Practical Nurse in long term care.

Kelly Stacy, RAC-CT

Clinical Reimbursement Coordinator

With 13 years of experience in Inpatient Rehabilitation, Long Term Care nursing, and Physician Clinic settings, Kelly Stacy has performed a wide range of clinical roles during his career. He joined Kissito in 2005 as a Charge Nurse at Kissito Healthcare-Bland, based in Bastian, VA. In May 2008, Kelly Stacy was named Corporate Medical Records Coordinator for Kissito and has subsequently expanded his role into the MDS/PPS arena. He currently leads the MDS and Medical Records Teams in all Kissito facilities as well as our RN Clinical Auditor Program. Kelly is proactively involved in the development and implementation of the Electonic Healthcare Records program. Some of his previous roles include: CNA, Unit Secretary, Rehab Nursing Technician, Licensed Practical Nurse Team Lead Charge Nurse, Intravenous Therapy Nurse, Quality Assurance Staff Development, Medical Records Auditor, Physician Clinic ICD-9 Application for Billing, Health Information Manager, MDS/PPS Review. Kelly also holds an MDS certification of RAC-CT credential.

Pat Hickok

Director of Human Resources

Since March of 2011, Pat Hickok has been responsible for all factions of human resources including coordination of benefits, HR compliance and training and supporting facility-level HR/Payroll Coordinators.

Pat commenced her HR journey in 1998 at Sears before she later graduated with honors from Mary Baldwin College and received her M.B.A. from Averett University. Later, Pat worked for Conwed Manufacturing, provided her services at Virginia Western Community College and the Virginia Employment Commission to help the unemployable and underemployed find work, and managed a staff of volunteers for her church’s bookstore and gift shop – where she still works today. Since her leadership there, the bookstore has seen sales soar from $1,000 to $25,000 per year. Pat has been instrumental in a variety of settings in the workplace, from writing training manuals when none previously existed to the launching of total integration to computers.

Though semi-retired when stumbling upon the opportunity to work for Kissito, she decided to pursue it anyway reasoning that healthcare provided a different way to change the world for the better for her children and grandchildren. In her spare time, Pat loves crocheting and knitting scarves, handbags, sweaters and other clothing for her family – especially for her grandchildren.

Gary Hale

Accounting Manager

Gary brings his positive energy in garnering accurate and timely financial information from the accounting team. As a young newly minted ensign in the U.S. Navy, Gary learned early that a team can only be successful through proper management of resources, for which he counts highly upon his uniquely talented and hard working staff of accountants. Gary’s years as a college accounting instructor have come in handy in enabling his staff to better serve the needs of the entire Kissito organization.

Gary has a MBA from the California State University in San Bernardino and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Cal Poly Pomona. Gary’s accounting career started as a divisional staff accountant for ADP’s largest set of books in the Los Angeles region, and then later promoted and transferred to Atlanta. Gary later became an internal audit supervisor and financial analyst for another Fortune 1000 company in Atlanta before relocating to Washington DC for a long engagement.

Later, Gary truly found new life and opportunity after moving to Roanoke in 2010 where he has firmly planted roots after given a chance to ride on the Kissito bus. Gary’s accountants never refer to themselves as mere number-crunchers when they feel like that they are an integral part of the much larger goal in the betterment and care of human life.

Shannon Armstrong

Director of Accounts Receivable

After attending Radford University for accounting, Shannon Armstrong began accounting in long term care in 1999. With a variety of experience in accounts payable, general ledger and accounts receivable, Shannon has been an asset to Kissito Healthcare since 2010. For four consecutive months and counting, Shannon guided his dedicated team of accountants in collecting four million dollars per month in revenue in 2011. Other accomplishments include establishing a centralized billing office in six months for Consulate Healthcare – from hiring to business protocol. In Shannon’s off-time, he goes fishing and hiking with his family while camping. Landscaping his new home on 19 acres in Roanoke County also keeps him busy in addition to supporting his children’s recreational activities like football and basketball.

Keisha Graziadei-Shup

Integrated Media Manager

Since early 2011, Keisha has managed Kissito’s social media, web site blog rolls and Planet K newsletter among other marketing-related projects. Those include ghost writing company materials, editing, managing web development and content, and project management of various company publications. Her bachelor’s degree from Hollins University included a double major in communication and Spanish and a study-abroad experience in Brazil and Argentina. She has written as a freelancer for a number of area news publications, tutored Spanish/English and translated legal documents and Kissito news stories. Keisha and her husband are actively involved in their community and enjoy visiting Keisha’s family in Northern California where she grew up.