Kimberly Edwards Joins Avalon Park Group
November 29, 2016Kimberly Edwards Joins Avalon Park Group as Director of Health Care Operations
Edwards also serving as Administrator of Encore at Avalon Park
Avalon Park, Fla. (November, 2016) – Bringing with her more than two decades of health care experience, Kimberly Edwards has joined Avalon Park Group as its director of health care operations. In addition, Edwards has assumed the top position at Encore at Avalon Park, the company’s assisted living facility.
“Bringing in a person with the background and knowledge of this industry, such as Kim, brings our health care division into an entirely different level,” says Beat Kahli, CEO, Avalon Park Group. “Over the next few years, we’ll be starting many new initiatives that are ground breaking in this industry and there is no better person than Kim to lead our efforts.”
Edwards is a licensed nursing home administrator and comes to Avalon Park Group with more than 25 years of long-term care experience, managing assisted living communities, skilled nursing facilities and continuing care retirement communities. She last worked at the Cameron Group as director of business development.
She earned her undergraduate degree from Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota and an MBA from Florida Institute of Technology.
“Very few companies are taking on health care in a manner such as Avalon Park Group and I’m proud to be a part of their long-term plans,” Edwards says. “No place else looks at the entire life of our citizens, working to provide healthy initiatives for younger people and immersive care for our seniors. Our goal is to make Avalon Park Group a model for how businesses can be a part of caring for our population in the best manner possible.”
About Encore at Avalon Park
Encore at Avalon Park Assisted Living and Memory Care Community, Orlando’s most innovative leader in the continuum of senior living care, is a 3 story building, made up of 6 neighborhoods each with 15 apartments. Sixty total apartments will be dedicated to memory care and thirty units will be focused on assisted living. Each neighborhood has its own entry, dining room, living room, family room, porch, and spa access. Situated in the heart of Downtown Avalon Park, Encore Residents and Guests have access to more than 90 shops, restaurants and professional services within a short walking distance. Tree-lined streets, lakes, shops, medical and professional services were designed to evoke an ideal small-town America. For more information about Encore at Avalon Park visit EncoreAtAvalonPark.com or 407-270-7500.
About Avalon Park Group
Avalon Park Group is a uniquely diversified family of companies engaged in businesses ranging from master-planned community development, to home building, mining, geographical information systems and property management, in Florida, Texas and Switzerland. Avalon Park Group combines its exceptional reputation, sound business experience and significant financial resources to invest in extraordinary opportunities. As such, the group replaces corporate bureaucracy with efficient and unrestricted decision making. Avalon Park Group combines vision, skill and experience to create sustainable communities. For more information on Avalon Park Group, visit www.AvalonParkGroup.com or call 407-658-6565.
Contact: Stephanie Hodson Lerret, Avalon Park Group, 407-427-6073 or Alan Byrd, Alan Byrd & Associates, 407-415-8470, alan@byrdconnections.com.