White Oak of Tryon is pleased to announce the appointment

of Lynn Hensley, RN as director of nursing.  Mrs. Hensley graduated from Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing in Charlotte, N.C. while, simultaneously, taking additional nursing related studies for three years at Queens College also in Charlotte.

From 1998 until coming to White Oak of Tryon, Hensley has served in the following capacities at Rutherford Regional Health System: director of nursing for surgical unit, nursing resource team and house supervisors.  For three years she was coordinator of patient and staff education, prior to serving for 12 years as director of nursing for medical-surgical, pediatrics and oncology units.  Hensley was director of nursing at the Woodlands Skilled Nursing center under Rutherford Hospital Management.

Prior to 1998, Hensley was rehab coordinator for Paragon Rehabilitation, Inc.,  supervising rehabilitation programs in long-term care facilities in the WNC region.

From 1979 through 1995, she was employed by Charlotte Institute of Rehabilitation in Charlotte as director of rehab relations, supervisor of ambulatory services, urology program coordinator and staff nurse on the spinal cord and stroke unit.

“We are very pleased and feel most fortunate to have been able to engage someone with as much nursing and nurse management experience as Lynn has.  It isn’t often that you find someone like this and we are looking forward to her joining our White Oak family,” Mary Lance, administrator of White Oak of Tryon, said.

Hensley takes over from Pam Painter, RN, who has served as director of nursing for two years, leading the facility through deficiency free surveys in both of those years.

Painter will assume the position of restorative care supervisor.

– article submitted by Beth Romney