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Teleios Announces FACHE Certification for Tina Gentry, Chief Operating & Advancement Officer

Teleios Collaborative Network (TCN) announced that Tina Gentry, Chief Operating & Advancement Officer, recently became a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, the nation’s leading professional society for healthcare leaders.

Chris Comeaux, CEO, of Teleios, says, “The Teleios Team and I are so proud of Tina Gentry. Tina exemplifies what it means to be a lifelong learner and this achievement is one more in a long prestigious list for her. She makes all of us better at Teleios and the work we do with our members and clients. Healthcare is better because she chooses to apply her talents in this space, and we are so glad she does”.

“The healthcare management field plays a vital role in providing high-quality care to the people in our communities, which makes having a standard of excellence promoted by a professional organization critically important,” says Deborah J. Bowen, FACHE, CAE, president and CEO of ACHE. “By becoming an ACHE Fellow and earning the distinction of board certification from ACHE, healthcare leaders demonstrate a commitment to excellence in serving their patients and the community.” Fellow status represents the achievement of the highest standard of professional development. As of January 1, 2024, only 8,651 healthcare executives hold this distinction.

Teleios Collaborative Network is a nonprofit organization that has created a clinically integrated network that shares expert leadership, industry best practices, and resources with its member organizations. The goal of TCN’s collaboration is to harness the best of each hospice and enable the network to care for the patients and families in each community served. There are over 3,500 hospice patients and over 4,300 palliative patients in its network. TCN was founded in 2017 by Four Seasons and Carolina Caring and co-founded by AMOREM and Mountain Valley organizations. TCN is currently comprised of fifteen member organizations across ten states.

More information about TCN can be found at teleioscn.org.