Nurse Stories

Cindy Kreider

Vice President, Clinical Services
RN

2010 marks the 20 year anniversary of Cindy Kreider’s career as a nurse and 30 years since the beginning of her career in senior healthcare. Originally, Cindy joined the company as an MDS coordinator and then took a position as a clinical reimbursement consultant before being promoted to Vice President of Clinical Services for her division eight years ago.

When Cindy was a teenager, she started working in a skilled nursing facility as a housekeeper. She stayed with this facility for 18 years during which she held many positions: dietary aid, nursing assistant, activities coordinator and social service designee. During this time, she also went back to school to become a nurse and continued working. After nursing school, she returned to the same facility and held the positions of  MDS Coordinator and Assistant Director of Nursing.

“My executive director was also a Registered Nurse, and she was extremely supportive,” Cindy explains. “I give her a lot of credit. She was a wonderful nurse mentor. She encouraged me to get some acute care experience and allowed me to work at the skilled nursing facility part time while I worked at the hospital full time, as a medical/surgical RN, after nursing school.”

After moving to a director of nursing position, Cindy left to work for the Pennsylvania Department of Health. It was during this time that she met a Beverly Healthcare Executive Director. After keeping in contact with this administrator for several months, she decided to make the move back into senior healthcare.

Cindy expressed the important role her clinical and operational mentors played in her growth and development.  “They certainly supported and provided me with opportunities to grow and advance as a nursing executive within the company,” she continues. Cindy is currently ANCC certified in Gerontological Nursing and became wound care certified in 2009.

What Cindy really loves is the impact that Golden Living nurses are able to have on care outcomes. And, at her level, she is able to impact these outcomes on many levels: locally, divisionally, company-wide and industry-wide. “Golden Living encourages and allows us to think outside the box. The most important thing for me is to always, keep the patient at the center of all we do. Always remembering the power and impact of the human touch,” she says.

“As a Registered Nurse with Golden Living, we have tremendous opportunity to continue to positively impact the lives of those we serve, and we also benefit in our own growth and advancement,” she explains. “I wasn’t sure what I wanted to be as a young adult, but after working at my first skilled nursing facility, I was hooked! In many ways it’s like a family. We have the opportunity to impact many aspects of a person’s life. I am very fortunate and love being a nurse.”