Kim Elliott, Former Chief Nursing Officer at Brookdale Senior Living, Joins Teton as Chief Clinical Advisor

Kim Elliott brings over 30 years of healthcare leadership experience to Teton. She previously served as Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer at Brookdale Senior Living, the nation's largest senior living provider. Her perspective is clear: care teams need visibility, they need to intervene earlier, and they need to move away from reactive approaches.

Elliott held clinical quality, compliance, and risk management roles at Centerre Healthcare Corporation and Kindred Healthcare before joining Brookdale in 2014. At Brookdale, she led clinical services across a complex organization through the COVID pandemic, focusing on preventive care models that reduce hospitalizations.

She holds a BSN from the University of Kentucky and a master's in nursing from Chamberlain University. She serves on Argentum's Clinical Quality Executive Roundtable, the University of Central Florida School of Nursing Dean's Advisory Board, and is a Nashville Healthcare Council Fellow.

Elliott describes the evolution she has witnessed firsthand:

“When I became a nurse in my early 20s, the process of identifying which residents were at the highest risk for falls was a paper-based scoring methodology considering 10 or fewer factors.”

On what technology makes possible:

“The fact that you can work smarter, not harder. You can get to the information that you need to run effective clinical programs through technologies such as this. I'll take that all day long.”

Elliott addresses concerns about technology replacing clinical judgment:

“The common thought is you can't replace nurses, you can't replace caregivers, technology will never work in this space. But when you look at what Teton does, it is as if the nurses have a second set of eyes and ears.”

“If there's any technology that has the potential to be the leader in the industry, it's Teton, and that's why I joined the company.”

Elliott will serve as Chief Clinical Advisor, collaborating with senior living operators, care teams, and Teton's product and customer teams.

“Kim ran clinical care across the largest organization in senior living through its hardest period, and she has reached the same conclusion we have: that proactive, data-driven care is not a nice-to-have. It is the only way to give care teams a fair chance at doing their jobs well.”