Larry Pack
CEO , Stonerise
KEN MAGILL
Though he started his career as an accountant , Stonerise CEO Larry Pack sees patients as far more than just entries on a spreadsheet . They are individuals with their own unique needs who should be given health care with love , respect and a mission of getting them back to their lives .
Pack co-founded Stonerise in 2009 and has since overseen its growth from three facilities with 350 employees to 17 care centers serving all of West Virginia and three counties in southeast Ohio . Today , Stonerise employs more than 3,000 team members who provide a broad range of care services to more than 2,000 patients in West Virginia and southeast Ohio , including transitional and skilled nursing care , therapy , home health care and hospice .
“ We were founded in 2009 because we wanted to play a more complete , responsible and loving role in a person ’ s health journey ,” says Pack . “ We saw health care becoming more fragmented , with patients sometimes left to manage ongoing conditions and care transitions on their own . We saw an opportunity to apply our expertise with care and love .”
Stonerise ’ s stated mission is to get patients back to health and back to life , which is an unusual mission statement for nursing homes . Shortly after Stonerise ’ s
founding , it became apparent that growth was necessary to fulfill that mission . The organization ’ s health care model would have to expand outside its nursing centers and into other parts of people ’ s health care journey , like their homes .
“ Our idea of complete care throughout an entire health journey required a new model of transitional care that would see patients through each step of their health journeys , wherever that leads ,” says Pack .
Ordinarily , a nursing home is considered the last stop in a patient ’ s health care journey , but Stonerise ’ s facilities are called transitional care centers . Along with traditional , long-term stays ,
Photo by John Sibold .
Stonerise offers short-term stays for patients until they are healthy enough to go home .
Stonerise also helps patients transition from one care provider or level of care to another .
For example , a severely overweight , diabetic patient with a mild case of dementia will require vastly different treatments and resources than a patient with heart issues who has had a stroke . Stonerise ’ s aim , however , is the same in both cases — coordinate the appropriate set of treatments and resources to get both patients well enough to go home and get back to their lives .
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