Mary A. Nester

Ms. Nester was appointed Vice President of Corporate Compliance Officer for Avalon Health Care, Inc. in 2007.  Ms. Nester has been a nurse for over thirty years in conjunction with being an attorney for over twenty years.  She has extensive experience in representing long term care organizations in all areas of regulatory and healthcare laws.  Prior to her position with the company she was a partner in a healthcare law firm representing care providers, as well as a consultant and expert for legal compliance, patient privacy and security matters. For the past ten years, Ms. Nester has developed compliance programs for health care organizations throughout the country as well as regularly lectured and published on regulatory compliance.
 
As Avalon's Corporate Compliance Officer, she is responsible for the development and execution of the Corporate Compliance Plan, including training, monitoring, auditing and enforcement components throughout the entire organization.  She reports directly to the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer identifying potential areas of compliance vulnerability and risk as well providing input and analysis of pending legislation and government issues impacting operations as they pertain to compliance.  In her role as Corporate Compliance Officer, Ms. Nester provides ongoing and independent review to ensure that compliance issues and concerns within the organization are being appropriately evaluated, investigated and resolved.

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