Foundation Board of Directors
Constance Bessler
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For the past decade, Constance Bessler has served as the Chief Executive Officer at Greystone Healthcare Management Corporation where she has demonstrated the ability to blend business, clinical and financial initiatives into cohesive, driven, and focused operations.
Bessler's expertise in areas such as executive leadership and supervision, team building and training, business operations management and cost containment, has led her to become a recognized leader in operations management of health care businesses. Her other skills include, budget and sales forecasting, strategic planning/corporate vision, acquisitions and divestitures, program leadership, business development, P&L Management, new product/service development, brand and design. Bessler has engineered a company growth to $200M per annum revenue.
At the University of Wyoming, Bessler studied Communications at the undergraduate level and received her Masters in Speech Language Pathology. From there she went on to become the Director of Outpatient Services at Health South Rehabilitation Hospital. Some of her key contributions include an exceeded budgeted revenue and gross margin within three months of operation, brought outpatient revenue up to 17% of total revenue during the first year of operation, managed a growth in outpatient visits from 200 to 1200 in nine months, expanded provision of services to include four new comprehensive programs, and recruited, oriented, trained, and supervised 12 FTE.
Bessler has also served as the Director of Rehabilitation Services at CMS Therapies where she was able to maintain 85% productivity levels when the rehab department grew from 6 to 18 FTE. Bessler moved to Tampa, Florida where she became the Regional Director of Marketing of Arbor Healthcare and later became the Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Mariner Health Group. At Mariner, Bessler directed and managed operational aspects of 65 long-term care and assisted living facilities in four states, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, and Arizona. She also developed a Sales and Marketing Force of 79 FTE, grew overall census by 125 ADC, resulting in $12M growth in revenue and grew HMO and Medicare Revenue to 31% of total revenue.
Currently, Bessler is a member of the American Health Care Association, Florida Multi-facility Task Force, Florida Health Care Association, and serves as a board member for LTC-100.
