78    Business View - December 2015
        
        
          Central Control, LLC
        
        
          
            The recognized provider of choice in louisiana’s healthcare markets
          
        
        
          Central Control is not the name of a government agency,
        
        
          a fictional, undercover spy ring, or a new, start-up tech-
        
        
          nology firm - although the use of modern technology is
        
        
          something at which this company does excel. Central
        
        
          Control, also known as CCI, is actually in the business
        
        
          of healthcare management. It is a multifarious firm
        
        
          that operates several nursing homes and various other
        
        
          healthcare-affiliated companies throughout the state of
        
        
          Louisiana. The CCI in its name stands for Compassion,
        
        
          Caring, and Integrity - and it is those values, above all oth-
        
        
          ers - that have helped propel Central Control to a position
        
        
          of leadership in the field of long-term and rehabilitative
        
        
          care of the elderly and infirm.
        
        
          CCI was founded in 1978 by Louis and Jerrine Harrell.
        
        
          According to Lannie Richardson, the company’s current
        
        
          Chief Executive Officer, the couple had some friends in
        
        
          Alexandria, LA, who were operating boarding houses for
        
        
          the elderly, and Louis Harrell was intrigued. “He was in-
        
        
          spired by the opportunity that this was a business that
        
        
          needed somebody to take state-wide,” Richardson re-
        
        
          lates. “To provide quality living for the elderly population.
        
        
          HEALTHCARE