Michael S. Fassler

Experience

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  Beth Abraham Hospital (Long Term Care)

  Jan 1977 - Jan 1986

  Associate Administrator

  Long term care facility with 520 beds. Expanded into apartment housing for seniors and the disabled. Associate Administrator 1980-1986Assistant Administrator 1977-1980• Improved service while reducing costs by 15% through implementation of materials management system including central purchasing, receiving and distribution, and inventory, par and exchange cart systems.• Established systems for and supervised the opening of 115 unit senior citizens apartment building.• Directed departmental operations during multi-million dollar renovations.• Reorganized nursing administrative structure, expanding responsibility and authority of nursing supervisors. Increased visibility of nursing administration and non-nursing administration on patient floors.• Launched an integrated Rehabilitation Medicine Department.• Researched and developed adult day care program proposal; prepared comprehensive health resources inventory for local health systems area. Show less

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  Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation

  Jan 1986 - Jan 2002

  Executive Vice President

  Progressive responsibility and career growth with multi-service health care provider consisting of a 320 bed nursing home, home care, hospice, four adult day care locations and diagnostic and treatment centers.Chief Executive Officer 1993-2002Chief Executive Officer of multi-service health care provider consisting of a 320-bed nursing home, home care, hospice, adult day care programs and diagnostic and treatment centers.•With large nursing home as core, reframed the organization's mission as a provider of options enabling aging residents to stay in their own community. Developed an integrated network of community services, including primary care, adult day care and home care.•Instituted financial management controls to operate financially challenged CNR Health Care Network at a surplus.•Transformed the cultural focus of CNR from a Jewish-sponsored nursing home in Crown Heights/Bedford Stuyvesant to an organization focused on caring for the area's predominantly black community. Developed a system to reach out to community board, organizations, and churches with active involvement resulting in strong community support for CNR.•Recruited and developed a racially and culturally diverse leadership team that reflected the community's population.•Contributed to redevelopment of CNR's neighborhood by working with community board and local politicians to construct building on vacant city land to house new offsite adult day care and home care programs.•Opened offsite adult day care center in Queens, expanding continuum of long term care services from former Brooklyn-only focus. Grew long term home health care program to citywide serving 1100 persons.*Led development to renovate nursing home to provide a more home-like environment.Associate Executive Director 1986-1993*Established Alzheimer's adult day care program.*Instituted guest relations program which improved quality of life for residents, families & staff.*Implemented marketing program. Show less

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  CenterLight Health System

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2016

  President/Chief Executive Officer

  • Within the first two weeks of 2002 promotion from CEO of CNR to President/CEO of newly merged organization, reduced salary expenses by $2.1 million per year by elimination of unnecessary managerial positions. Integrated finance, IT and human resources.• Built upon positive union relationships developed while at CNR to work with union leadership and delegates to move from confrontational style to cooperative relationship across the merged organization.• Led integration of 200 bed Margaret Tietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center into CenterLight performing financial turnaround, correcting operational issues, and repositioning its mission from serving a diminishing Holocaust survivor population to serving the local Jewish community.• Added Managed Long Term Care (MLTC) and Institutional Special Needs Plan (ISNP) programs. Built upon relationships to expand managed care into Brooklyn.• Modernized 3 nursing homes and HUD 202 senior housing.• Identified, mentored, and developed talented leaders within the organization.• Rebranded the merged organization as one system rather than separate entities.• “Win the hearts of the community” messaging bridged from CNR to CenterLight to communicate the commitment to inclusion of local community focus in the mission. Show less

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  Michael Fassler & Associates, LLC

  May 2017 - Dec 2018

  President

  Consulting practice dedicated to facilitating the development and improvement of community based health and support services for client organizations, practitioners, and entrepreneurs.