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MHCA Welcomes Two Newly Elected Board Members

At the Annual meeting in November, MHCA elected two new directors to the Board. Please join us in welcoming Rebecca Gagnon and Phillip Jean. Thank you to all the candidates who ran for open board seats! 


Rebecca Gagnon joined the Maine Veteran's Homes as their Chief Operations Officer in July of 2022. Rebecca comes to the organization with 11 years of long term care leadership experience in various buildings throughout the state. As a licensed Administrator, she has worked in a variety of long term care settings to include both not for profit and for profit settings. Rebecca completed the AHCA Future Leader Program in 2017 and is a Quality Award Examiner for the AHCA Quality Award Program.

Philip D. Jean, CNHA, FACHCA serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Piper Shores in Scarborough, Maine's first and only nonprofit life care retirement community.  Phil started his career over 25 years ago as an Administrator-in-Training and has since managed several communities across the aging services continuum in Maine, Massachusetts and New Jersey.  He has also served in corporate and regional operations roles and worked as an operations consultant for a firm in Boston. Phil is an exam item writer/subject matter expert for the National Association of Long-Term Care Administrator Boards (NAB) and serves on the Health Services Executive Credentialing Commission.  

Welcome Rebecca and Phil!
 
Staff contact: awesthoff@mehca.org