REPORT ON SPEAKER

Shown in the above picture from left to right is Jen Karolski our speaker and Alyssa Conn, Jen's close friend and daughter of Mike Ough.

 

Jen and Alyssa were introduced to our group by Mike Ough.  Jen is from Quality Living International who operate at a 70 acre center located at 72nd and Sorensen Parkway.  After hospitalization, brain injury individuals, mostly young adults turn to the facility to deal with rehabilitation, quality of life issues, and become motivated.  This is a residential facility and there are patients from about 28 different states.

 

The facility does not work with medicare, they have links with Bellevue University and have ties to the Wounded Warrier programs at the Pentagon.  They accept medicaid from 9 states, including Nebraska.  They have low patient turnover.

 

There are 350 staff members and their annual budget is about $25 million.  They do fund raising to assist with non-insured patients.