Gov. Appoints Administrator at New Redding Vet Home

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Governor Brown Appoints Administrator at New Redding Veterans Home

Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of U.S. Air Force veteran Ronald Brown as Administrator at the Veterans Home of California in Redding. Brown has been a nursing home administrator at the Yuba Skilled Nursing Center since 2010. He was a nursing home administrator at Riverside HealthCare from 2006 to 2009 and a skilled nursing facility administrator at Health Care Management Inc. from 2003 to 2006. Brown was chief operating officer at Sunny View Lutheran Homes in 2002 and a nursing home administrator at Olive Vista from 1980 to 2002. He served in the United States Air Force from 1969 to 1972.

“The appointment of Ronald Brown as the Redding Veterans Home Administrator moves CalVet a significant step closer to opening the Home and admitting its first residents in the Fall of this year,” said CalVet Secretary Peter J. Gravett. “Undersecretary for Veterans Homes of California Robin Umberg and I have every confidence that the Redding Home, its residents, and its staff will thrive under Ronald’s leadership.”