After carefully considering more than 50 highly qualified applicants from around the country, the Mount Evans Home Health Care & Hospice board of directors is pleased to welcome Charley Shimanski as the organization’s new executive director.
“We were impressed with his history, his accomplishments and his caring heart,” explains board president elect Dale Lovin. “Charley possesses the proper balance of business acumen and a grasp of nonprofit challenges.”
Shimanski began his professional career in finance before seeking more meaningful challenges in the nonprofit realm and serving for several years as CEO of the Colorado Nonprofit Association. In 2008 the Evergreen resident hired on as president and CEO of the Mile High chapter of the American Red Cross, and two years later was named the national organization’s senior vice president of disaster services in Washington, D.C. More recently, as the head of Rebuilding Together, he was able to put that struggling nonprofit on a secure financial footing.
Personally, Shimanski has been a dedicated member of the Alpine Rescue Team for 30 years and has participated in hundreds of high-country rescues. He’s a past president of the Mountain Rescue Association, and as a certified emergency medical technician he’s flown many missions as a volunteer Flight for Life flight medic.
In his new role as operational head of Mount Evans, Shimanski hopes to sustain out-going director Kathy Engels’ legacy of excellence far into an increasingly uncertain future.
“Kathy turned a relatively small nonprofit into one of the top 100 home health organizations in the country, and that’s a credit to her skills and leadership,” Shimanski says. “That is important because there’s nothing small about the challenges that home-health organizations across the country are going to be facing in the next 15 to 20 years. My job will be to help Mount Evans prepare for those challenges.”
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Mount Evans Home Health Care & Hospice supports the mountain community by providing compassionate and experienced care during challenging times.