|
Ronald C. M. Bergstrom, MBA, President Senior Living, Older Adult Residences, Lifestyle Enrichment, and Care Continuum Specialist

Ronald C. M. Bergstrom has a diverse, successful professional history of recognizing, and actualizing organization’s unrealized potential with regard to market position, operations and finances, programs and services, people and relationships, and facilities. Bergstrom’s experience includes advancing to new levels of excellence and success Continuing Care Retirement Communities, living assistance and care residences; and older adult social support, care, and health care services providers.
Bergstrom has developed and executed strategic plans, leadership development plans, repositioning plans, site evaluation and optimization plans, and operations and financial performance improvement plans; as well as innovative facility construction, renovation, and renewal plans. He has also led pre-design focus groups; and prepared values statements, functional and operational programs, and desired architectural program elements for building construction, renovation, and renewal projects.
|
EDUCATION
Masters of Business Administration in Hospital and Health Service Administration Cornell University Bachelor of Science in Business Administration California State University – San Jose
LICENSURE, CERTIFICATIONS, FELLOWSHIPS
Licensed Nursing Facility Administrator, Washington State
WORK HISTORY Lakeview Village (Continuing Care Retirement Community) Lenexa, Kansas President and Chief Executive Officer
Selected Accomplishments:
- Leadership Restructuring Plan
- Housing Market Downturn-Impact Mitigation Initiatives
- Construction Project Cost Management Initiatives
- Operations and Financial Management Improvement Plans
- Investment Management Improvement Initiative
- “Caring Fund” Program Formation
- Philanthropic Enhancement Plan
- New Residence Options
Presbyterian Village North (Continuing Care Retirement Community), Dallas, Texas President
Selected Accomplishments:
- Site Plan
- Strategic Relations Plan
- Leadership Development
- Marketing Revitalization
- Campus Renovation Planning
- Philanthropic Support Enhancement
- Operations Improvement Plans
- Revenue Enhancement Plans
- 186-residences expansion Plan: homes, townhomes, and apartment homes
- Engineering Building Development
- Health Center Renewal and Expansion Plan, including Values Statement; and Functional, and Architectural Programs
- Medicare Short Term Rehab Center
Hillcrest Village (Continuing Care Retirement Community), Bartlesville, Oklahoma Operating Manager
Selected Accomplishments:
- Campus Design Planning
- Financial Pro-forma Counsel
- Community Relations
- Operations Planning
- Pre-Opening Activities
- Market Positioning Planning
- Intergenerational Planning
- Marketing Planning
- Regulatory Approvals
Timber Springs ( Care Continuum) Nacogdoches, Texas Operating Manager
Selected Accomplishments:
- Campus Design Planning
- Financial Pro-forma Counsel
- Community Relations
- Operating/Financial Plan
- Pre-Opening Activities
- Market Positioning Planning
- Intergenerational Strategies
- Marketing Planning
- Regulatory Approvals
Central American Retirement Community, Confidential Entity and Location Contact Manager
Selected Accomplishments
- Organizational Structure Research
- Market Research Collaboration
- Design Research
- Community Design Planning
- Financial Pro-forma Counsel
- Operations Planning
- Financial Plan Development
- Pre-Opening Activities Plan
- Infrastructure Rehabilitation
- Gift Shop, and Dining Expansion
- Pre-design focus groups; and preparation of Values Statements; and Functional, Procedural, and Architectural Space Programs for an 81-Apartment Building
- Development, pre-sale, construction, occupancy of 81-Apartment Building with innovative, site optimizing design
Small Retirement Community Provider, Kansas City, Missouri (confidential) Consultant
Selected Accomplishments
- Fair Housing Compliance Advice
- Strategic Planning Assistance
- Contract Development Assistance
- Developed residential design
- Identified innovative site solutions
- Led pre-opening, occupancy activities
Cristwood Nursing and Rehab Center Shoreline, Washington Consultant
Selected Accomplishments
- Administration of facility
- Oversight of major wing remodeling
- Identified solution that corrected a serious long-standing HVAC problem
- Secured wing re-occupancy approval
- Coordinated wing re-occupancy
Christian Health Care Center Lynden, Washington Consultant
Selected Accomplishments:
- Advised administrator on market positioning
- Reviewed facility development plans
- Reviewed facility design, provided critique
- Prepared alternative design options
|
Regional Continuing Care Services, Providence Health System Anchorage, Alaska Chief Operating Officer
Selected Accomplishments:
- Defined, secured support of new Vision
for Continuing Care Services
- Leadership Development
- Operations Improvement Plans
- Cross Entity Care Delivery and Coordination Improvement Plans
- Secured $1,000,000 grant funding
- Care and Service Integration Planning
Providence Extended Care Center Anchorage, Alaska Administrator
Selected Accomplishments:
- Recruitment of a physician, and a Director of Nursing
- Recruitment of seven nurses from the Philippines
- Facility Market Repositioning Plan
- “Gentle Care” dementia care program
- Establishment of dementia care unit
- Operations Improvement Plan
- Great Room(s) design/construction
- Facility Redevelopment/Remodel Plan
- Engineering Building development
- Pharmacy Redevelopment Plan
Covenant Shores (Continuing Care Retirement Community), Mercer Island, Washington Executive Director
Selected Accomplishments:
- Site Evaluation
- Site Optimization Plans
- Campus Repositioning Strategies
- Marketing Revitalization
- Operations Improvement
- Stakeholder Relations Improvement
Saint Cabrini Hospital and Center on Aging Seattle, Washington Chief Executive Officer
Selected Accomplishments:
- Development of State’s first Hospital-Based Skilled Nursing Facility
- Geriatric Assessment Program
- Development of Specialty Geriatric Medicine Care Product, Nursing Unit
- Recruitment of two Geriatricians
- Development of Senior Clinic Network
- Development of Surgery Center a top parking garage
- Development of Urgent Care Center product
Covenant Shores Health Center, Mercer Island, Washington Executive Director
Selected Accomplishments:
- Design Innovations Research
- Structured, conducted pre-design focus groups; developed Values Statements; and Functional, Procedural, and Architectural Space Programs for 43-bed health center
- Negotiated purchase of licensed beds
- Secured Certificate of Need approval
- Secured planning area bed transfer
Columbia Lutheran Home Seattle, Washington Consultant
Selected Accomplishments:
- Advised board on strategic planning
- Prepared strategic positioning options
- Assisted Administrator on business planning
- Catalyst for development of Club 24 – Senior Living at Home
University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia Consultant
Selected Accomplishments:
- Operations and Financial Management Improvement Plans
- Facilities Planning
- Strategic Planning
- Community Relations enhancement planning
- Leadership Development
Saint Cabrini Hospital Seattle, Washington Chief Executive Officer
Selected Accomplishments:
- Developed Strategic Plan
- Accomplished Market Repositioning
- Operations Improvement
- Facilities redevelopment
- Development of multiple new services
- Formation of 4-office medical group
- Planning, development of Surgery Center built atop parking garage
- Development of Urgent Care Center
Cabrini Cares Senior Clinic Network Chief Executive Officer
Selected Accomplishments:
- Market Needs Assessment
- Strategic Planning
- Business Plan Development
- Physician Recruitment
- Strategy for partnerships with community organizations, and facilities
- Establishment of 11-site clinic network
|
References Available on Request
|