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Robert (Bob) Woolrich began his tenure at Foxwood
Springs on April 2, 2007. Bob comes to us after serving as CEO
of Aldersgate Village in Topeka, Kansas. A native of Mt. Vernon, NY,
Bob served in the U.S. Army for three years after high school. He
earned an Associates Degree in Liberal Arts from Westchester Community
College in Valhalla, NY in 1968; a Bachelor of Arts in U.S. History from
Amherst College in Amherst, MA in 1970; and a Masters of Science in
Health Administration from the School of Public Health, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst in 1976.
After graduate school, Bob was employed in various
capacities by the Western Massachusetts Health Planning Council in West
Springfield, MA, where he was responsible for setting up a regional
office and for conducting Certificate of Need and grant reviews for a
four county area for six years. He then took a position as Chief
Operating Officer at Western Massachusetts Hospital in Westfield, MA, a
position that he held for over eleven years. There, in addition to his
overall responsibility for day-to-day operations, he helped to establish
an inpatient hospice program, an AIDS hospice program, and an outpatient
head injury program.
In 1991, Bob accepted a position as the founding
Executive Director of Applewood at Amherst, a small Continuing Care
Retirement Community in Amherst, MA. At Applewood, he worked with
nursing staff and the local VNA/Hospice to establish a home care program
to assist residents to remain in their independent living apartments as
long as possible. After eight years, he collaborated in merging
Applewood with another small CCRC in order to enhance the chance for
both to survive among larger competitors. After a brief stint assisting
with the merger of five home health agencies and three hospice programs,
Bob accepted a position as Executive Director of Kendal at Hanover in
Hanover, NH. After nearly five years there, Bob and his wife, Noeline,
decided to seek out a warmer climate. That search brought him to Topeka
and, finally, to Foxwood Springs.
Bob is married to the former Noeline Sullivan of
Yonkers, NY. They celebrated their fortieth wedding anniversary
in November 2007. Noel is a registered nurse and worked during her
professional life in Emergency Medicine. She has managed two Emergency
Departments and an ambulance service. She was also clinical director of
a hospice program in Vermont and New Hampshire for three years. During
the summers, she volunteers at a camp for children with cancer sponsored
by Paul Newman in Connecticut.
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