Ms. Walden earned her administrator’s license from the University of Connecticut in 1978. She oversees the senior care communities organized under the Central Connecticut Health Alliance representing a full continuum of care including skilled nursing services, subacute and short-term rehabilitation, out-patient rehab, independent and assisted living, and Alzheimer’s assisted living. These communities include Southington Care Center, Jerome Home and Arbor Rose in New Britain, The Orchards at Southington, and Mulberry Gardens of Southington. Ms. Walden and her leadership team have been instrumental in the development of several senior care initiatives including Good Life Fitness being offered in each of the senior living communities, the CT Center for Healthy Aging, a resource and assessment center for seniors; and most recently, the implementation of Planetree, a resident and relationship-centered philosophy of caring. In 2003 Ms. Walden was appointed to serve on Secretary Tommy Thompson’s Advisory Committee on Regulatory Reform. She was one of the founding members of the Breaking the Bonds Committee organized through the Department on Aging in Connecticut as part of a statewide initiative to provide restraint-free for nursing home residents. She has previously served as an adjunct professor at Quinnipiac University in the health services administration department and at Rensallaer Polytechnical Institute in Hartford teaching health care management and gerontology courses. Ms. Walden has been a member of the American College of Health Care Administrators since 1978 and is on the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Association of Not-for-Profit Health Care Facilities.
Patricia Walden,
NHA, Executive Vice President
