Indiana-based nursing home operator Majestic Care on Thursday announced the resignation of its CEO Bernie McGuinness. Paul D.Pruitt will join the Majestic team as CEO in June.
McGuinness, co-founder of Majestic and CEO for five years, will finish out through the end of the month before pursuing new opportunities this summer.
Pruitt joins Majestic Care with more than 15 years of senior management experience, including 12 years as a licensed physical therapy assistant. He currently serves as COO for Mission Point Healthcare Services in Michigan.
In addition to Pruitt, David Alexander will be joining Majestic as chief operating officer – a new role for the company.
Alexander has 25 years of experience in long-term care and comes to Majestic from American Senior Communities, where he has served as senior vice president.
During McGuinness’ time as CEO, Majestic Care grew from a small operator with four communities to a large regional player with 36 facilities. The operator currently manages facilities in Michigan and Ohio, as well as Indiana.
“Bernie has been an instrumental, pivotal and cornerstone leader in the growth of our organization, and we are immensely humbled,” according to a company announcement on LinkedIn. “We are incredibly indebted to Bernie for his vision, heart and MAGIC that he compassionately dedicated to our organization.”
McGuinness has been a vocal leader within the skilled nursing sector, sharing Majestic’s approach to meeting industry challenges and identifying areas for innovation across the industry.
In the face of an ongoing staffing crisis, McGuinness and his team fielded the “Majestic Difference,” an employee-focused benefits program featuring incentives like subsidized housing, perfect attendance bonuses and cell phone plans.
“I’m hoping that the benefits and the things we continue to challenge ourselves [with] as an organization, I hope that they continue to make the difference for our care team members. I believe that’s how we have to respond to the pandemic,” he said at the time.
More recently, McGuinness shared his plans and priorities for this year, weighed in on a lag in internal promotions among nursing home staff, highlighted the importance of the scheduler role, and discussed rising costs among SNFs.
In one interview with SNN, McGuinness talked about his rise to CEO, notably starting as a certified nursing assistant (CNA) and climbing the ladder to become an administrator and serving in other leadership positions.
“I think everybody in health care, especially health care administration, should work as a CNA first or at some point. It informed every decision I made as a leader moving forward and generated a lot of success for me as a leader in workforce management and just doing the right thing,” McGuinness said in an interview last November.
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