Sherri Brittain

PO Box ***

Hurley, NY *****

914-***-****

acefjp@r.postjobfree.com

Executive Summary

Over 20 years experience in Health Care Administration

Regional Operations Manager for Assisted Living/Adult Home Facilities

Executive Director of Assisted Living Facility

Director of Nursing Long Term Care Agency

Director of Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement

Oversight of Grievances in facilities

Licensed Professional Registered Nurse: BS Health Care Administration

Over 25 years experience in Mental Health Care

10 years in non-profit administration

*Recent NO Violation NYSDOH Inspection Survey results for facility

Creator/Director of Classical Music Festivals

5+ years as an Executive Director non-profit

10 years in non-profit administration

Experienced sales and marketing in the entertainment/hospitality market

Higher Education Development Officer

Experienced sales person in nationally known high end retail

Executive Management

Accomplished Assisted Living Administrator/Director/Case Management

Director

Operations Manager

Director of Nursing

Accomplished non-profit Executive Director

Accomplished non-profit fundraiser

Accomplished concert organizer/producer

Accomplished special event director/creator

Accomplished sales, marketing and PR

Registered Professional Nurse, B.S. Health Care Administration

Over 10 experience in special events creation

Over 7 years in non-profit organizational development

Over 5 years experience in non-profit administration

Career Accomplishments

Produced no violation NYSDOH Survey Report for assisted living facility

2013

Increased organization budget of local non-profit by 50% in 1 1/2 years

Increased organization membership of local non-profit by 50% in 1 1/2 years

Created/directed/produced international music festival

Director/Manager Concerts/tours: Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center

Key note speaker on Arts and the Economy Fall 2006

Hosted Chairman of National Endowments for the Arts / Press Conference

Project Leader on year long Economic Impact National Survey of Non-

Profits with Americans for the Arts

Sherri Brittain

PO Box 611

Hurley, NY 12443

914-***-**** (mobile)

Professional Experience

Highland Assisted Living Facility 2009-Present

Administrative Executive Director /Operations Manager/Director of

Nursing/Quality Assurance Manager

Administrative Executive Director/Operations Manager for Highland Assisted

Living Facility, Highland, NY, Golden Acres Adult Home, Spring Valley, NY

and Evergreen Court, Spring Valley, NY. Responsible for operations

management, strategic planning, developing new trends in residential care.

Experience in Marketing, P/R, Community Relations, policy writing, staff

development and public speaking. Accomplished Professional Registered

Nurse with BS degree in Health Care Administration. A successful community

representative and face for the organization.

. Directs comprehensive operational management of facility

. Directs Case Management

. Directs, coordinates staffing issues, training, continuing education,

scheduling

. Directs administration of facility within authority of governing board.

. Administers fiscal operations

. Directs and coordinates activities of medical, nursing, and

administrative staffs and services.

. Implemented approaches and services to maintain and enhance resident

independence.

. Directs hiring and training of personnel.

. Plans, installs, directs, coordinates, and evaluates an administrative

management organization within the facility to integrate functions such

as fiscal planning and controls, staffing, procurement and storekeeping,

grounds and building maintenance, transportation, communication,

housekeeping, dietary, and safety programs.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

. Re-cooped over $500,000 in Medicaid payments within first 6 months in

position

. Updated Case Management procedures

. Successfully led multi-disciplinary team in NYSDOH on annual inspections

. Successfully managed Medicaid system to ensure continuum of payments

. Improved facility physical plant

. Increased quality of staff, food services, menus and medication

administration program

. Increased staff educational development program

. Established ties with contractors to provide needed services such food

distributors, plumbers, pavers, landscaping services.

. Authored and implemented resident and staff internal satisfaction survey

. Increased quality of care in facility as per resident survey results

. Increase staff job satisfaction as per survey

. Successfully implements NY State DOH rules, policies, guidelines of

operations

. Established collaborative relationships with community resources

. Proven leadership in re-organizing facility

. Led re-organization of kitchen services, food quality and menus

. Director of residential medical care

. Point person in emergency management policies

. Administrate /develop QA policies/audits for all facilities

. Leads staff and residents in recognizing and implementing philosophy of

organization, its goals and mission.

Vassar College 2008-2009

Assistant Director of Class, Reunion and Parent Giving; Classes 1941-1958:

. Organized/administrated quarterly Annual Fund appeals for College

. Cultivation, stewardship of donors

. Field visits to cultivate/solicit gifts

. Identified potential donors/change of giving potential of alumnae

. Organize peer solicitation with volunteers

. Work with Fundraising Volunteers: education, guidance, train in

fundraising initiatives/goals

. Work with fundraising data bases(Banner, Brio, Excel, File Maker,

Kintera)

. Work with interdisciplinary Development Department Team

. Organize, support parent/alumnae volunteers at programmatic events

. Research leader on Faculty Giving Program

. Wrote white Paper on Parent Giving presented to Director of Development

. Maintain and support Mission and Philosophy of Vassar College

Kleinfield's Bridal, NYC 10/2008-8/09

Sales Consultant

. Professional Sales consultant with excellent track record of sales of

designer bridal wear

Classics on the Mountain Music Festival

Executive Director/producer/marketing director /Creator

2002-2009

. Organizational management of classical music festival spanning nightly

performances of full orchestra and highlighted artists.

. Collaborative relationship with host site, Mohonk Mountain House,

offering festival goers nightly to weekly stays and concert tickets.

. Organized all international needs of visiting artists

. Worked with embassy's, celebrities, politician

. Marketing director for all press and media needs (NY Times, RTVI,

Russian Media)

Ulster County Arts Council, Kingston, NY

2002-2008

Executive Director

. Organizational executive management of non-profit 501(3)c ; Strategic

Planning; Grant Writer; Office administration; Budget management/fiscal

oversight; Program development and management; Event

management/planning/production; Public speaking engagements; Liaison

between non-profit and government agencies (County, State, Federal);

Created membership benefit packages; Cultivate donor relations/personal

solicitation of prospects; Advocate in Albany with State Officials for

the Non-Profit Industry; Management, recruitment, and training of

volunteers; Organized visit of N.E.A. Chairman, from Washington, D.C.

with Congressman Maurice Hinchey Office; Key Note speaker: "Arts and the

Economy in the Hudson Valley" October 2006 with congressman Hinchey and

Executive Director of the NEA; Appointed Member Legislative Committee:

Arts, Education, Tourism, Community Relations: 2005: Appointed Member:

Ulster County Tourism Advisory Board 2006; Appointed Member: Ulster

County Economic Development Task Force 200; Organize web site; Write/

organize newsletters; Marketing / PR;

. 2005-06: Project Leader: Americans for the Arts Economic Prosperity lll

National Survey of Non-Profit Industry

. Coordinated county wide cultural non-profit economic survey with

National Organization; Organized economic impact survey/

statistical analysis of income into County and State Treasury

and its relationship to similar regions on a national level;

Organized/led/Key note speaker at Press Conference

. 2006-2008: Manager Impromptu Productions, Inc.

. Create promotional material, opportunities for artists;

Direct/produce/manage concerts/ tours: Rose Hall, Lincoln

Center; Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, Boston, Conn; Work with

publishers, Europe; CD distribution/ sales; Created artist web-

site; Sponsorship coordination; Marketing/PR/ Interviews; Author

Playbill articles

. 2003- 2007: Creator/Director Classics on the Mountain Music Festival

www.classicsonthemountain.com

. Created annual international week long music festival 3 years

running; Organized International, celebrity Artist/Musician

appearances; Festival management

. Directed marketing, PR, Press conferences, VIP's; Obtained

corporate sponsorships, underwriting support, grants; Manager

Ticket Sales/distribution

. Directed collaboration between host site/festival crew; Authored

all written material for press, media

NYS Taconic DDSO:

Community Mental Health Nurse Specialist/Family Care Specialist

Group Home RN Supervisor

1984-1987

. Oversight of 100 + client case load coordinating medical needs

. Coordinate community resources

. Care giver/ staff education and development

. Medication oversight

. Policy and procedure writing

. Community placement of clients into proper setting

. Field visits

Benedictine Hospital Behavioral Mental Health Unit 1980-

1984

Assistant Head Nurse/Acting Head Nurse

. Administer assignments of individual case load to staff; Wrote Nursing

Care plans; Multi-disciplinary team member coordinator; Medication

administration oversight

. Staff Education/Development on more advanced practices in Nursing Care,

training/monitoring of staff

. Lead organizational meetings for Nursing Staff

. Direct psychiatric nursing care

. Established with team treatment care plan, discharge plans, coordinate

with community resources and family members

. Coordinated patient care with Mental Health lawyers for protection of

patient rights while committed

. Supervised staff of RN's. LPN's, lay workers

Beth Israel Medical Center 1977-1980

Assistant Head Nurse

. Harlem and Cooper Square Rehab clinics (Outpatient Drug Rehab Clinic

with 250 patients

Sherri Brittain RN, BS

. Part of multi-disciplinary treatment team (R.N's, Social workers,

MD's, councilors)

. Administrated/developed care plans for clients both medical and

psychiatric needs

. Coordinated community resources; Quality assurance; Assessed

successfulness of plans Home visits in community; Administration/

coordination of medication services; Administrator meetings with

clients to assess their engagement, needs, cooperation with plan of

care, goals

. Community liaison leader in educational seminars for clients on health

care, treatments, diagnoses, etc.

CREDENTIALS

Professional Registered Nurse

Horsewoman

EDUCATION

B.S. Health Care Administration/Community Mental Health, SUNY New Paltz

1987

R.N., Phillips Beth Israel Medical Center, School of Nursing, NYC 1977

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