Meet our leadership team
Ascension Living is non-profit and vision-driven to provide high-quality, compassionate, personalized care with dignity, especially to those in our community who are most in need. Get to know the people who serve as our leaders.
As Ascension’s Senior Vice President of Post-Acute and At-Home Services, Lisa Musgrave, MHA, BSN, RN, provides senior management and leadership to Ascension Living, one of one of the nation’s leading nonprofit and Catholic senior living organizations; Ascension at Home, a home health division managed in partnership with Compassus Hospice and Home Health; Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) services; and inpatient/outpatient rehabilitation.
Prior to joining Ascension, Lisa served as Vice President, Post-Acute Services & Care at Home, with AdventHealth, with responsibility for developing and administering strategic, operational and financial objectives for post-acute and home-based services, post-acute care collaborative networks, and clinical aspects of the system’s home care and hospice central billing office. In this role, she led the development of new high-acuity home services such as advanced, acute and extended care at home.
Prior to serving in AdventHealth, Lisa served as Senior Vice President of Care Solutions for Navvis Healthcare based in St. Louis, with responsibility for developing population health/care management platforms and building community networks to bridge the space between payers, providers and patients. She also served as Vice President, Home Based Care, for Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston and as Chief Nursing Officer/Operations Officer for Home Health and Hospice at Intermountain Homecare, a division of Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City. Earlier she held healthcare leadership positions in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Kansas City, Missouri; and Columbia, Missouri.
Lisa is a Registered Nurse who earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri, and a Master of Health Administration from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. She has served on the Missouri State Home Care Board and was a volunteer for the Meals on Wheels Board. She is an active member of her church and has served in youth and children's ministry for more than 30 years. She also has participated in medical and humanitarian missions in Mexico, Central and South America.
Erin will provide strategic and operational leadership over Ascension’s diversified senior housing services, including independent living, assisted living, memory support, skilled nursing, and short-term rehab within Ascension Living. She will continue to oversee Post-Acute and At-Home clinical services.
Erin joined Ascension in 2022 and has held several key positions, including Chief Nursing Officer of Post-Acute and At-Home Services and Interim Chief Operating Officer of Ascension Living. Her expertise in post-acute care operations, finance, growth, regulatory compliance, quality improvement, and strategic planning will be instrumental in incorporating clinical processes to support a seamless patient experience.
Erin previously served as a nurse administrator in the Mayo Clinic Health System. She implemented hospital-at-home programs and oversaw home health, hospice, senior services in skilled nursing facilities, and palliative care in northwest Wisconsin. Additionally, she managed inpatient and outpatient obstetrics at Mayo.
Erin received her Associate of Science degree in Nursing, Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing and Master of Science degree in Nursing from Weber State University. She also is a Nursing Fellow of the Golisano Institute for Intellectual and Developmental Disability Nursing at St. John Fisher College, New York, New York and is currently completing a certificate through Indiana University in Healthcare Innovation and Implementation.
Kellie leads daily operations for assisted living, independent living, memory support and skilled nursing communities. Kellie also oversees operational excellence, contracting, social services, health information management, memory support and managed care processes and programming.
She joined Ascension Living in 2023 as the Senior Director of Operational Excellence with a focus on process improvement, revenue enhancement and standardization across the ministry.
She received a bachelor's degree in speech-language pathology and audiology from the University of Texas. She received a master’s degree in speech-language pathology from Idaho State University. Kellie previously served as AdventHealth’s regional corporate responsibility officer for post-acute.
As the Chief Strategy Officer, Raymond develops and implements strategies designed to advance and further integrate post-acute services into Ascension’s healthcare continuum. This includes services internal to Ascension and those provided by outside partners. She is positioning Ascension to deliver new models of care in the home through high-quality preferred provider networks in conjunction with exceptional at-home partners. Her work drives improved quality, reduces total cost of care, facilitates intense provider collaboration and enables seamless transitions for consumers.
Since joining Ascension in 2014 she also has served as Associate Vice President of Strategy and Associate Vice President for Strategic Solutions within Ascension Care Management. Before launching her healthcare strategy career in Nashville, Tennessee, Rachel spent seven years in policy, strategy and program management roles in Washington, D.C., designing and implementing national programs, including state health insurance exchanges across the country.
She earned a master’s degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee. Rachel is a member of the Ascension Leadership Academy and was named a”40 under 40 leader” by Nashville Business Journal.
Terri joined Ascension Living in 2023 as the Senior Director of Clinical Operations. In that role, she managed clinical performance and operations within skilled nursing, assisted living and memory support services. Terri received a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Viterbo University, LaCrosse, Wisconsin and a master’s degree in nursing from Walden University, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Terri previously served as a nurse manager of nursing support in the Mayo Clinic health system where she was responsible for care and safety, risk management and human resource management. She also served as the director of nursing for five years at Mayo Clinic Maplewood skilled nursing facility in Wisconsin.
Terri is humbled and honored to have the opportunity to serve Ascension Living residents and associates. She believes that we are blessed to work for an organization whose mission is to be rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus - the ultimate example of love and healing. Terri thinks that as Ascension Living associates, we have the privilege to serve all persons, particularly those who are poor and vulnerable. Our residents are perfect examples of our mission; they need us. We become their family; they count on us to keep them safe and secure.
Bob Smoot began his service as Chief Mission Integration Officer for Ascension Living in December 2018, having previously served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Mission Officer for AMITA Health, the Chicago-based joint venture of Ascension’s Alexian Brothers Health System and Presence Health with Adventist Midwest Health.
In this pivotal role, Bob is responsible for establishing a collaborative framework for the growth of a common culture across Ascension Living, building upon the richness of the healing traditions of our legacy organizations and advancing our ministry integration grounded in our Mission and Values. His team works to deepen the awareness of and fully realize our identity as a healing ministry of the Catholic Church in all aspects of strategy, organizational culture, service and community collaboration and promote Ascension’s broad strategic and organizational commitment to our Mission. Bob assures the evolving initiatives, programs and resources that support the One Ascension journey, engaging the gifts of all for the sake of our Mission.
He brings a wealth of knowledge as a thought leader in the nuanced application of ethics, spirituality and community transformation with special attention to those who are poor and marginalized. Bob received his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Saint Louis University, St. Louis, and his Master of Divinity and Master of Moral Theology degrees from Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, St. Louis. In addition, soon Bob will complete the Master of Arts program in Bioethics and Health Policy at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics & Healthcare Leadership at Loyola University, Chicago.
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