Nominate Your Staff for the 2024 Jan Thayer Pioneer Award

​​Nominations for NCAL’s 2024 Jan Thayer Pioneer Award are now open. The award recognizes an individual who has moved the senior care profession forward, positively affecting the lives of those served and those who serve. Recipients must demonstrate dedication, leadership and considerable contributions to the senior care profession.  

 

Nominations must be submitted online via Award Force, AHCA/NCAL’s awards platform, by May 31, 2024. Please refer to the NCAL Rules and Guidelines for more information. The recipient is selected by the NCAL Executive Committee and will be honored at the Delivering Solutions 24 AHCA/NCAL Convention & Expo​​ October 6-9, 2024, in Orlando, Florida.  

The Jan Thayer Pioneer Award is posthumously named after the first Board Chair of NCAL, Jan Thayer. A provider for more than 25 years, Thayer owned and operated Riverside Lodge in Grand Island, Nebraska. She also founded and headed up the Excel Development Group, which owned and managed retirement communities throughout the Midwest and employed hundreds.​