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Keren Wheeler, RN: President and CEO

Keren Snyder Wheeler is a registered nurse and health care professional specializing in the needs of the elderly and their families. As an entrepreneur she has established multiple businesses across the south and southeast United States which serve families across the life span. Keren’s motivating passion is to assure that the most vulnerable in society have opportunity for quality care. Some of her activities related to serving families and vulnerable people groups include:

• Member of Family Private Care 1997-present

• Established Family Private Care Nurse Registry in 1997 that facilitated millions of hours of health care related services

• Member, Chamber of Commerce Board - Hobe Sound, Florida – 1999

• Business Woman of the Year by Chamber of Commerce 2003

• Family Private Care - Business of the year by the Martin County Business Development Board - 2004

• Nominated as Woman of the Year by the International Soroptomist Club

• Member, Alzheimer's Community Board of Directors - West Palm Beach, Florida

• Committee member - Florida State Legislative statute review for establishment of Nurse Registry Professional State Statutes passed by the Florida State Legislature

• Ongoing lobbying efforts locally and nationally to secure the superior Consumer Driven health care model of Nurse Registries

• Appearance on national television segment with host Armstrong Williams regarding Senior Care

• Charitable contributions include establishment of primary English school in Pakistan
  Charitable travel and support to third world countries (Vietnam, Singapore, Mexico )

• Established HHA/CNA vocational program in public school district

Jerry Wheeler, ThB: COO

Jerry Wheeler experience in innovative and visionary business administration and leadership of charitable organizations positions him for executive leadership of Evergreen. Jerry has expertise in management of global operations for a church based mission organization and as Chairman of the Board for a home for at risk children. As an executive project manager, he was responsible for development of a twenty five acre ministry based campus. Most recently he was involved in international marketing of home décor as a company president.

Becky Hoffpauir, RN: Vice President

Rebecca Hoffpauir has a diverse background in nursing administration and healthcare education leadership. Becky is a registered nurse with more than thirty years of experience in meeting the healthcare and educational needs of patients and nursing education. Through the course of her career she has received multiple awards for nursing excellence and has held leadership and administrative positions as a nurse administrator. She has served as faculty at both community college and the university levels. Currently, she gives leadership to a university academic program for registered nurses seeking baccalaureate degrees.

Laura Cook: Administrator Houston

Laura Cook is the Administrator for Evergreen Private Care Houston. Laura has been with Evergreen Private Care since its launch and oversees the management of all aspects of Evergreen Houston’s daily operations. Prior to joining Evergreen, Laura was the director for a neurodiagnostics company, managing the Dallas and San Antonio markets. She facilitated good relationships between the company, physicians, clinics and patients while assuring that the daily workflow processes and operations ran smoothly. She was also the director for a therapy/diagnostics company, managing all field technicians, quality assurance, and reporting.

Earlier in her career, Laura was the Director of International Operations for an international nutraceutical company. She worked directly with the executive management teams in Japan, the United Kingdom and South Korea. Laura was the project manager for the launch of the company’s business in South Korea, coordinating all aspects of the business from systems, product, printed materials, training of Executive staff, customer service and also working with a consulting firm to insure proper culture emersion of all areas of business. Prior to being appointed as Director of International Operations, Laura was the Director of Distributor Relations for the same company, ensuring the delivery of the highest level of quality service for its 100,000 plus stateside distributors and customers.
Laura received her B.A. from McNeese State University in 1989. Customer satisfaction and quality assurance has been Laura’s passion her entire career in the health and wellness industries. She carries this same passion for quality into her administration of Evergreen Private Care. She is an active Chamber member and is also very active in her local house of worship where she also teaches.

Melissa Brookins: Administrator of Office Services & Referral Coordinator

Melissa Brookins is the Administrator of Office Services for Evergreen Private Care in Houston. She also serves as the Referral Coordinator. Her primary focus is to make the best match possible for every client and ever caregiver! Melissa has lived in the Houston area for 18 years. Before joining Evergreen, Melissa served 24 years as an Office Administrator in the Automotive Industry. During this time she also served as HR and Customer Relations Manager. She is active in her local house of worship where she also teaches in the Children Ministry.

Kim Howard: Director of Corporate Operations

Kim Howard comes to Evergreen Private Care with more than 15 years of Medicare Home Health Business Operations experience. From 1998 to 2009 she served with a company known as a leading provider of Home Health Care and Hospice services in the United States and Puerto Rico. Kim began her employment with this company on the local level as a Business Office Specialist and was quickly promoted to Business Office Manager. In 2004 she accepted a corporate position in which she was instrumental in streamlining business process and improving operational efficiencies for multiple office locations nationally. Kim’s expertise and leadership skill has been rewarded by exemplary evaluations and letters of commendations. Kim is committed to unwavering implementation of corporate policy and procedure processes that assures the highest degree of professionalism and client/caregiver satisfaction to the Private Care Referral service model. Kim is well known in her hometown for volunteer and philanthropic work as well as for her active involvement with her local house of worship and nonprofit organizations in her community.

Dwayne Corvin: CFO