A provider becomes president.

AAHSA appoints Georgia LTC executive president, CEO

WILLIAM L. (LARRY) MINNIX JR., D.MIN., has been appointed by the Board of Directors of AAHSA as its new president and CEO effective Jan. 1, 2001.

Currently president and CEO of Wesley Woods Inc. in Atlanta, a not-for-profit long term care, housing, outpatient, and acute-care program, Minnix has been a delegate to AAHSA since 1994 and a member of its board since 1997. He is the first AAHSA-member provider to become AAHSA's president and CEO, a role change that is the flip side of former president Len Fishman's. (See "From president to provider," September 2000 CITC, page 9.)

AAHSA Chair Mary Alice Ryan says Minnix stood out among the candidates, and that he's highly energetic, knowledgeable, and has excellent communication and leadership skills. His firsthand knowledge of health care, housing, and services, as well as his commitment to the not-for-profit mission and passion for seniors, will make him an ideal president.

"I have been blessed beyond measure to have been able to work with and serve the elderly for so long," Minnix said in a prepared statement, "and I look forward with great excitement to continuing to serve in this new capacity. With a new administration and a new Congress, the opportunity to help focus a national discourse on aging has never been more timely."

In his 27-year career at Wesley Woods, he served in various administrative positions, becoming executive vice president in 1980 and president and CEO in 1990.

Minnix, an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, earned his Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Emory University and his Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry from Emory's Candler School of Theology.