The Opportunity at a Glance
Position: Chief Executive Officer
Organization: Friends Care Community (Friends Health Care Association, Inc.)
Location: Yellow Springs, Ohio
Reports to: Board President, Friends Care Community Board of Trustees
Direct Reports: Nine
Community Profile: Independent, values-driven nonprofit continuing care retirement community | CMS Five-Star Health Inspection Rating | Serving Southwest Ohio since 1977
Team Members: Approximately 90
Campus: Twenty-three wooded acres designated as a certified wildlife habitat
Board Composition: 11 members; 6 appointed by the Yellow Springs Friends Meeting (do not need to be Quakers but are in sympathy with Friends) and 5 self-appointed by the board.
Capacity:
- Health Center: 59 licensed beds providing long-term skilled nursing, short-term inpatient rehabilitation, and respite care. All rooms are private, including 16 dedicated rehabilitation rooms.
- Assisted Living: 20 private apartments across four floor plans; currently full with a wait list.
- Independent Living: Two- and three-bedroom patio homes with attached garages, set along wooded walking paths; currently full with a wait list of approximately 30.
- Additional Programs: An on-site preschool program for multigenerational interaction, outpatient rehabilitation for all ages, greenhouse, community garden, playground, pet-friendly spaces, and paved walking paths through scenic woods.
Friends Care Community, Yellow Springs, Ohio
A Legacy of Vision and Principled Action in the Village of Yellow Springs
Mission: Founded in 1977 by the Yellow Springs Friends Meeting and built on a legacy of community vision and clinical excellence, Friends Care Community provides a vibrant, inclusive, multigenerational home where seniors across Southwest Ohio live with dignity. Guided by Quaker values, we blend pioneering health care with compassionate, nature-inspired living to do right by every resident, every day.
Core Values: Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality, and Stewardship.
Yellow Springs, Ohio: A Village Where Nature, Arts, and Activism Converge
Yellow Springs offers a quality of life that is genuinely difficult to replicate — a small, walkable village with an outsized cultural life, set against one of Ohio’s most beautiful natural landscapes, and within easy reach of three metropolitan areas.
The Chief Executive Officer serves as the senior-most leader of Friends Care Community, accountable to the Board of Trustees for overall organizational performance, mission fidelity, and long-term sustainability. This is an integrated role. The Board seeks one leader who can hold both day-to-day operational competence and outward-facing strategic vision, while building a leadership team capable of carrying more.
The role requires:
- Strategic Leadership
- Operational Excellence
- Financial Stewardship
- Culture and Workforce Leadership
- Community and Stakeholder Engagement
Core Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Progressive senior leadership experience in senior living, long-term care, or a comparable mission-driven health care setting
- Demonstrated financial management and regulatory compliance record within a regulated environment
- Evidence of census, occupancy, or revenue growth achieved while maintaining quality
- Proven ability to build, develop, and hold accountable a senior leadership team
- Strong communication skills and a visible, relational leadership presence
- Genuine alignment with the values described above, and facility leading in an inclusive culture that welcomes diverse voices
Preferred Qualifications:
- Nursing Home Administrator license preferred. Candidates with the ability and willingness to obtain Ohio licensure, or to lead in partnership with a licensed administrator, will be given full consideration.
- Master’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Business, Gerontology, Nonprofit Management, or a related field
- Continuing care retirement community or multi-level continuum experience
- Successful track record in philanthropy, including capital campaign or endowment development
- Prior experience with campus master planning, renovation, or expansion projects
- Nonprofit board partnership and governance experience
- Experience in mission-driven or values-based organizations
Leadership Style and Character:
- Visible and Relational: Known by name to residents, families, and team members, and present well beyond the office
- Transparent by Default: Shares the real picture, including the difficult parts, before being asked
- Collaborative by Instinct: Builds decisions alongside people rather than handing them down
- Decisive Within Consensus: Draws out voice and discernment, then makes the call when the call is needed
- Steady and Grounded: Calm and clear-headed amid competing pressures, and unpretentious in style
- A Bridge to the Village: Connects the campus to the community that built it and still sustains it
This is more than an executive appointment. It is the chance to lead an organization a village built for itself and still counts on — to carry a nearly fifty-year legacy through renewal and growth, and to leave Friends Care Community stronger and more secure than the day it was handed over.
The right leader will find real satisfaction in:
- Building on real momentum with a clear, quantified path to sustainability
- Honoring a legacy of community vision and principled action while driving necessary evolution
- Serving where founding values, clinical excellence, and community identity genuinely converge
- Guiding residents, approximately 90 team members, and a beloved community institution toward a thriving future
- Leading an independent, locally governed organization that a whole village is rooting for
Friends Care Community puts it this way: every life has a story, and the next chapter is written together. This is an invitation to help write the organization’s own.
Friends Care Community is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fair and inclusive hiring practices in all aspects of our operations and service, while honoring the values on which we were founded. Friends is inclusive, safe, and affirming.
This executive search is being conducted by AQORD Consulting with the highest standards of confidentiality and professionalism. We welcome inquiries, referrals, and applications from exceptional leaders who are called to serve in this role.
For Confidential Inquiries:
- Apply through LinkedIn OR
- Email your resume and cover letter to: [email protected] or you may call: 574-534-9689.
Please submit a comprehensive executive resume and a cover letter addressing your alignment with Friends Care Community’s mission and your vision for leading this community through its next chapter. Cover letters may address your values-informed leadership experience, operational and financial results, approach to building leadership teams, community engagement philosophy, or philanthropic development background.
