The Speech & Hearing Center has hired Taylor Bostwick as its president and CEO.
Bostwick will act as the voice of the center, communicating its mission and services to the community. She also is tasked with managing the staff, ensuring the fiscal health of the nonprofit agency and overseeing program delivery and expansion.
Bostwick brings more than a decade of communications experience to the position. She was most recently the marketing director of Hamilton Place for CBL Properties and worked previously as an account executive at Waterhouse Public Relations, in corporate communications at Unum and as the head of marketing at Papercut Interactive.
She holds a degree from East Tennessee State University in mass communications.
The center provides no-cost screenings for children to age 5, offers a sliding fee scale for those who qualify and has programs to help low-income individuals purchase a hearing aid.
Nolan Elementary’s Johns gets national award
The National Outstanding Assistant Principals Program has selected Jamelie Kangles Johns, assistant principal at Nolan Elementary School, as the 2021 National Outstanding Assistant Principal from Tennessee.
Johns has been the assistant principal at Nolan Elementary School since 2018.
The program recognized her for her commitment to enhancing the culture of Nolan Elementary while also supporting students, staff and families during the COVID-19 pandemic, Hamilton County Schools says.
Johns is a National Board Certified Teacher and recently completed her doctoral degree at Carson Newman University. She also served on curriculum, standards and assessment committees for the Tennessee Department of Education.
Johns will be recognized at the National Association of Elementary School Principals’ national conference in Chicago in July.
Life Care Center gets new director
Parker Center is the new executive director of Life Care Center of East Ridge.
Center most recently served as executive director at Life Care Center of Blount County in Louisville, Tennessee. He was assistant executive director at Life Care Center of Red Bank in Chattanooga and did his administrator training at Life Care Center of East Ridge.
Raised in Zephyrhills, Florida, Center earned his bachelor’s degree in long-term care administration from Southern Adventist University in Collegedale.
Life Care Center of East Ridge is one of 27 skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities in Tennessee managed by Life Care Centers of America.
Centennial Heart welcomes Wiisanen
Matthew Wiisanen, M.D., a board-certified and fellowship-trained interventional cardiologist and structural heart specialist, has joined Centennial Heart at Parkridge.
Wiisanen will serve as medical director of Interventional Cardiology and the Structural Heart programs at Parkridge Health System.
Wiisanen earned a medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School and completed an internal medicine residency at the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education at the Mayo Clinic. He then completed fellowships in cardiology and interventional cardiology at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.
Wiisanen subsequently completed further advanced fellowship training in peripheral vascular disease and structural heart interventions, also from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.
He is board-certified in internal medicine, echocardiography, cardiovascular disease, vascular interpretation and endovascular medicine.
Before joining Centennial Heart at Parkridge, Wiisanen served as the director of structural heart disease at Erlanger Health System and was an assistant professor of medicine on the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga College of Medicine.
Wiisanen is seeing patients in the Centennial Heart at Parkridge offices on the second floor of the Diagnostic Center located at 2205 McCallie Avenue