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Business View Magazine
Brinton Woods
Taking care of the basics in health and rehabilitative services for the aging population
Brinton Woods is a health and rehabilitation care pro-
vider in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. region.
The company was formed in 2005, by Daren Cortese,
Marvin Rabovsky and Gary Yankanich, three profes-
sionals with extensive experience in the long-term care
industry. Brinton Woods purchased its first facility that
year, acquiring the Golden Age Guest Home in Car-
roll County, Maryland and renaming it Brinton Woods
Health and Rehabilitation Center at Winfield.
Cortese, who is now the President of Brinton Woods,
recalls the company’s beginnings and subsequent
growth: “We’d always been operators of skilled nurs-
ing facilities. We acquired a small nursing facility in
Carroll County, Maryland in 2005, which started our
company, and incrementally, we’ve grown from that
one facility to five facilities, the most recent being ac-
quired in January, 2015.”
According to Cortese, there was no set growth plan,
other than to look for opportunities to take over skilled
nursing facilities when they became available, recon-
dition them, and add them to the Brinton Woods port-
folio. “The facilities were in different levels of need-
