Victor Rose has worked in the healthcare and non-profit sector for 30 years, serving in various executive and leadership roles. Currently, he serves as ECRI’s Executive Director of Aging and Ambulatory Care, coordinating business development and consulting in safety, risk management, and quality improvement to providers nationwide and across the aging care continuum. Before joining ECRI, he served as COO for 17 years with a not-for-profit continuing care retirement community leading administration (e.g., operational finance, strategic and annual planning, staffing and scheduling, admissions and discharges, licensing surveys, risk management, emergency preparedness and response), direct care, and support service delivery (e.g., environmental services, dining services, human services) among other responsibilities. During that time in 1995, he also designed and opened one of Pennsylvania’s first special care dementia units in Personal Care (Assisted Living).

Victor holds a BS in Management (healthcare concentration) from the University of North Carolina - Asheville, an MBA from DeSales University, is a Fellow at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and is a licensed nursing home administrator in Pennsylvania. He has taught management at DeSales University, served on LeadingAge PA’s Public Policy Committee, and authored numerous healthcare management and aging services articles and white papers. Topics include state survey preparedness, budgeting, risk management, building design, staffing and scheduling, legal discovery and QAPI, scope of service, and most recently postincident investigations, postincident notifications and emergency preparedness in relations to outbreak and pandemic response.

Additional professional activities include serving as Board Member (past President) for the Eastern Pennsylvania Geriatrics Society (EPGS), as Column Editor for Annals of Long-Term Care (ALTC) “ECRI Strategies” column, and on the ALTC editorial board. Victor also serves on the Board of Managers for Meadowood at Home program, a Life Plan Community located in Skippack, PA.