Inside the Heart of Long-Term Care: Ashlea Ondrusek on Purpose & Growth

Executive leader Ashlea Ondrusek (Avir Health Group) explains how her team scaled rapidly across Texas while protecting the essentials: patient dignity, staff culture, and measurable outcomes. We cover higher-acuity care in SNFs (in-house dialysis, vent units, NP coverage), PDPM adoption and documentation, survey/regulatory readiness with a former state surveyor on staff, and why THCA unity is accelerating positive change statewide. Ashlea also shares practical playbooks for recruiting during a nursing shortage, preventing leadership burnout, and celebrating wins so teams want to stay and grow. She closes with an inspiring personal purpose statement.

Topics: culture-first growth, PDPM, survey strategy, THCA unity, recruitment & retention, special focus turnarounds, staff appreciation, burnout prevention, patient outcomes.

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