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Community-based care management and consulting in the Pacific Northwest. Cultivating Home. Inspiring Purpose. Thriving Together.

01/20/2026

What do you call an amaryllis selfie? Maybe, a bloomie? Enjoy some recent “bloomies” captured by the Vanda Health team showcasing our annual amaryllis adventure (try saying that five times fast)! We love this winter tradition!

01/15/2026

What does our guiding principle “We Are Agile” look like in action? It looks like our compliance team completing FOUR mock surveys in a SINGLE week. Whether working in a Vanda Health community or for a third party, our regulatory experts combine an eye for detail with out-of-the-box thinking, ingenuity, and innovation. Thanks to the agility and flexibility of our Compliance Team, four new clients now have valuable proactive feedback AND realistic, time-tested, and attainable solutions to move their community forward.

01/13/2026

New year, same great program! We wanted to take a moment to re-introduce Vanda Health’s Grow With Us Future Leaders Program. This program is designed to jumpstart the educational and professional journeys of our employees. Team members are eligible to apply to one of the Grow With Us Pathways after only 6 months of employment.

Our Grow With Us Pathways include:
🌲 GED Completion
🌲 College Courses
🌲 Certification Courses
🌲 Loan Repayment
🌲 Education Reimbursement
🌲 Nursing Scholarship

01/08/2026

It’s Leadership Retreat Week, and Vanda Health leaders have been busy planning for 2026. We’ve got BIG goals as we enter the new year, and our motivated team of healthcare professionals will work hard—together—to achieve great things!

At Vanda Health, our guiding principle “we lead” is not just words on a page. It is both a mindset and call to action. Every day we strive to push boundaries, challenge assumptions, and set the standard in community-based care.

01/06/2026

The Vanda Health Compliance Team is ready to hit the ground running in 2026. Pictured here are Lorrie and Virginia, our very own compliance experts, with Kyle, an RCC at a community where we have been completing third party consulting, including proactive support ahead of the community’s upcoming state relicensure survey.

Reach out to Vanda Health for ALL of your compliance needs.

01/02/2026

This week, we celebrated the 5-year work anniversary of Tabby. Tabby is an important member of the Vanda Health nursing team and epitomizes our “We Grow” guiding principle. She was our first employee to embark on an accelerated nursing program to become a Registered Nurse, blazing the trail with courage and fearlessness for other aspiring nurses on our team to follow. We are grateful for her commitment and contributions.

01/01/2026

Happy New Year! Here’s to fresh starts and new beginnings. We will continue to strive to cultivate home, inspire purpose, and thrive together in 2026!

12/30/2025

Valerie got her start in community-based care just months before Covid 19 changed everyone’s lives forever. Officially, she worked as the Business Office Coordinator in a Memory Care community, but she was often found assisting residents with video calls, sharing a hug on the inside for a family member who so badly wanted the embrace on the outside, helping residents create letters and pictures to mail to their loved ones, and digging to the depths of her creativity to help keep connections while the world was so isolated and scary. In September 2021, Valerie was ready for a change and began her current role at Adara Oaks as the Business Office Manager.

Adara Oaks was Valerie’s first experience in an SNC community, but she was ready to join forces in the behavioral/mental health world and be part of changing a broken system. Valerie’s own personal challenges with mental health had shown her that support services are often hard to come by or absent altogether. Now, four years later and even on the hard days, she is grateful to be part of the valuable work being done at Adara Oaks and for the opportunity to make a difference for the 42 residents in the community.

Valerie says, “The last four years at Adara have come with challenges but also with so many victories and growth. Growth of the community, growth of our processes, growth of our experiences, growth of the residents and growth within myself.” Her own growth has been aided by Vanda Health’s Grow With Us program. Valerie explains, “I couldn't afford to go back to school or to pay for the administrator license but when God has direction for your life, the pathway will be paved before you. This pathway that paved itself before me was the Grow with Us program. The opportunity to finally do something for me and to advance my career presented right in front of me, and with a few more words of encouragement, I took the leap and applied.”

Valerie took advantage of the Grow With Us certification pathway to take the 40-hour ALF/RCF Administrator Training Course offered by OHCA and recently passed the exam to become a licensed administrator. She is excited for the next chapter in her career. “I am so passionate about the work we are doing and want to continue to lead by example, especially on the hard days,” Valerie says. “I want to lead as an Administrator with compassion, understanding, trust, and a lot of laughter. I hope to inspire those I work with to do the right thing, even when it is hard. I hope to eventually build a team of professionals who share my passion for our SNC communities and continue to be the change for the people who are so often overlooked and undersupported.”

12/25/2025

Wishing you a very merry Christmas!

12/24/2025

This holiday season, don’t get caught on the “naughty list.” Your community should be completing an accurate three-way cart audit with medication reconciliation EVERY time it conducts a quarterly physician order review. The Vanda Health compliance team recently conducted such an audit for a third party, just 30 days after a pharmacist review. Post three-way audit, the unused and expired medications filled two pharmacy totes.

The Vanda Health Compliance Team is always available to provide proactive regulatory support services to your community.

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