John Whitman, MBA, NFA

Chief Executive Officer
Chandler Hall
(Moderator)

John Whitman is the CEO of Chandler Hall, a non-profit, Quaker based senior care facility in Newtown, Pennsylvania. John is a licensed nursing home administrator and has been an active force in the field of Aging and Long-Term Care for over 35 years.

For the past three decades, he has been a faculty member in the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton MBA Healthcare Management Program serving as the Program’s internal expert on senior care services. John is also a multiple recipient of Wharton’s coveted “Excellence in Teaching Award.” As a national consultant, John has worked with all levels of health care and social service organizations, both for profit and not for profit, providing care and services for seniors.

John also started and serves as the Executive Director of a healthcare focused nonprofit called The TRECS Institute. TRECS stands for Targeting Revolutionary Elder Care Solutions and serves as a catalyst to create positive changes in caring for our seniors while generating added revenue for providers and cost savings for the health care system. For the past seven years, TRECS has been a strong advocate for utilizing telemedicine in skilled nursing facilities as a way of improving the quality of care, reducing unnecessary hospital admissions and readmissions while generating additional revenue for the sponsoring SNFs. CMS awarded The TRECS Institute two separate grants to implement telemedicine services in 28 nursing facilities in Florida and another 10 in North Carolina.