Hill Country Nursing & Rehabilitation under new management

Cove Leader-Press

Hill Country Nursing & Rehabilitation Center held an open house and ribbon cutting on Tuesday in conjunction with the Copperas Cove Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors.

The event was held to celebrate the new management of the facility, which is now being managed by Senior Care Centers, a long-term health care services management company which oversees the operations of more than 100 facilities in the state of Texas and Louisiana.

The company more than doubled the number of facilities it manages by September 2015, when it acquired its first facility in Louisiana.

The day-to-day operations of the Copperas Cove facility will remain unchanged, said Beatrice Burrell, administrator of the center. Burrell has been the administrator for five years.

“We’ve been able to gain new technology,” said Burrell. “We have a lot of corporate support and regional representatives.”

Burrell said the center has a PSR/human resources individual on staff who conducts hiring for the facility, with the application process being online.

She pointed out that the center has an entire wing dedicated to medical rehabilitation, for patients who undergo procedures such as knee replacements and can’t go straight home from the hospital. Hill Country is the next step for them after discharge.

“They’re just here to rehabilitate, and then they go home,” Burrell said.

The center, in addition to being under a new management company, also had a new Director of Nursing come on board. Kristine Carcarey recently joined the staff at Hill Country after a move from Pennsylvania.

In attendance at the ribbon cutting and open house were mayor Frank Seffrood, Oliver Miller with Integrity Rehab, Bill French, Dr. William Louis as well as Rabbit Fest royalty.