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And that’s the way it got started.”
The first Central Control facility was in Alexandria. In its
early years, the company grew by building new facilities
but, more lately, by acquiring them from other healthcare
management groups. “I think Mr. Harrell wanted to make
his dream available to as many people as he could,” says
Richardson. “And certainly, over the years, as opportuni-
ties came along that enabled him to do that, he did so.”
Today, CCI Manages seven long-termcare nursing homes,
with a total of 1,090 beds; an assisted living facility; a
16-bed, inpatient psychiatric hospital; a home-hospice
organization; an outpatient services arm; a health ser-
vices provider company; and Constant Care Technology,
a products division that supplies state-of-the art medical
devices and software for the long-term and post-acute
care (LTPAC) industry. CCI employs almost 2000 people,
approximately half of whom work in one of its nursing-
home facilities.
Richardson talks about the many medical, demographic,
technological, and even political changes that have com-
bined to alter the modern healthcare-management land-
scape – particularly in the area of elder care and the role
of nursing homes vis a vis the overall healthcare equa-
tion. “Nursing homes are moving to more of an acute
AT A GLANCE
WHO:
Central Control, LLC
WHAT:
Operator of several nursing homes and var-
ious other healthcare-affiliated companies in Loui-
siana.
WHERE:
Pineville, Louisiana
WEBSITE
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