Meera Riner Email Address

Chief Operating Officer

Nexion Health affiliated facilities are your local leaders in skilled nursing & rehabilitation services in Colorado, Louisiana, and Texas.

More than 25 years of Long Term Care experience as an executive and clinician with a solid background in financial analysis, knowledge of Federal and multi-state regulatory and compliance function, coupled with strong clinical management expertise. Extensive executive and clinical leadership skills to provide oversight, strategic planning and execution, to achieve consistent financial, regulatory and stakeholder desired outcomes. A devoted patient advocate and a leader for culture change in long term care. Developed and launched a strategic framework and mobilized a leadership group and more than 100 associate volunteers to successfully guide diversity and inclusion efforts in the workplace. Successful in establishing Nexion Health as a leader in LTC performance, reform and patient-centered care, earning facilities numerous Bronze and Silver AHCA quality awards in Colorado, Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana. Demonstrated leader and frequently sought after speaker on disaster preparedness and management: **Successfully managed the evacuation and return of over 900 residents from 9 facilities in 2 states during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. **Successfully managed to shelter in place over multiple hurricanes in Louisiana and Texas (Harvey). Invited participant in the National Long Term Care Hurricane Summit (2006). Currently serve on the Louisiana Nursing Home Association evacuation study group.(2022) Regular/past speaker/presenter at THCA, LNHA, AHCA Convention and Quality Symposium. Board Member at Large for the Texas Healthcare Association 2018 -2019. AHCA past Silver level Examiner and Unintended Health Care Outcomes Committee member AHCA Quality Committee and Workforce Committee member Baldrige Fellow Conceptual developer of the P.U.R.P.O.S.E. Driven Mentoring Program: **Assisted facility leadership and multi-level management to grow in their respective professions/areas of long term care interests through mentoring strategies. ** Co-presented at the virtual NAHQnext conference alongside Nexion’s Vice President of Quality on “The New PTSD: Post Traumatic Strategic Disorder”. **Keynote speaker at the 2022 Thrive Conference for the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence. Distinguished as the first Malcolm Baldrige Fellowship Program graduate in long-term care. Awarded the prestigious McKnight’s Women of Distinction honor in 2020. Currently serve on The George Washington University School of Business “Women in Leadership” Program Advisory Council. Awarded the AHCA Mary Ousley Champion of Quality Award in 2022