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January 2010

St. Tammany Healthcare Alliance selects new board members

Ames Bankston is the Licensed Nursing Facility Administrator for Heritage Manor of Mandeville. HMM is a 145 bed nursing/rehab facility providing skilled nursing services, long term care services, dementia care services, and hospice services. He has been with HMM since 2001. Prior to that position he worked at a SNF in Destin, Florida from 1997-2001 and a long term care facility in Bossier City from 1994-1997.

Ames is originally from Baton Rouge. He graduated from Broadmoor High School then attended Southeastern La. University, graduating with a degree in Business Management.  He is married, has three kids and lives in Mandeville.

Jim Bergeron, MBA, BSN has 25+ years of healthcare experience in the clinical as well as administrative positions.  Early in his career he was in charge of a USCG Air and Sea Search and Rescue Team.  Operating in the Gulf of Mexico and the North Atlantic, he was instrumental in working with Community Emergency Services to bridge the gap between offshore operations and onshore transportation and acute care.  While attending college Jim worked with several EMS agencies and Multiple Air Ambulance operations and achieved an Associate’s degree in Emergency Medical Technology. Upon completion of an MBA and Bachelors Degree in Nursing he has served as a College Faculty Member, Business and Quality Consultant, Director of Budgeting and Operations, Facility Administrator, Chief Clinical Officer, Chief Operations Officer, independent business owner and Hospital Chief Executive Officer.

He has also served on several Board of Directors, Advisory Boards, Regional and State Operations committees, charitable organizations and is a member of the American College of Health Care Executives (ACHE), Rotary International, LABI Healthcare Steering Committee and past contributing writer for the NorthShore Conifer on healthcare topics.  Jim has also received specialized training in Risk Management and legal affairs, Facility Construction and Renovation, Contracting, Six Sigma, CQI, reimbursement and Revenue Cycle Management and completed training in the Executive Learning Series and Frontline Leadership.

Diane Youman Floyd has been an employee of Greenbriar Community Care Center for 20+ years with the last two years as the facility Administrator. She has lived in Slidell since her marriage to Marty Floyd in 1995 and has two beautiful girls ages seven and four. They both attend Lake Castle School in Slidell and have a big heart for the residents of her facility. They both enjoy coming to work with Diane on the weekend and interacting with the residents.  Her passion has been working with the elderly and serving the community.

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