Independent Living at Village View
Karen Brown is a graduate of Penn State University and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Policy and Administration. Following college, Brown worked for a Pharmacy that served Long Term Care facilities. She went on to complete an Administrator-in-Training program and then obtained her Nursing Home Administrator license, which she has had for 11 years. While completing her hours needed for the Administrator-in-Training program, she worked as a Business Office Manager for a long-term care facility. Including her pharmacy work, Karen has close to 16 years of experience in Long Term Care.
Karen began her career with the Continuum in 2017, as the Assistant Administrator at DuBois Nursing Home, where she served in that position for 5 years. Then, in 2021, Karen was promoted to the position of Executive Director for the Continuum campus. Presently, Brown also serves as Interim Director of DuBois Home Care, an affiliated company of the DuBois Continuum of Care Community.
Karen and her husband Buddy reside in Falls Creek, PA, and have two children, Alexis and Cody. Both children like to play sports and are active in girl scouts and cub scouts. Her family enjoys being outside—swimming or gardening and they especially enjoy family time spent at the beach.
Mark Tami is a local resident who was born and raised in Brockway, Pennsylvania. He attended the Lock Haven University of PA, majoring in nursing then graduated in May of 2005 with an RN license. Mark practiced nursing for 17 years in acute care, psychiatric care, and geriatric care. He then moved to Lehigh Valley in PA to become a Director of Nursing for a Nursing Home Chain. There he elevated himself to Regional Director of Education and Regional Director of Clinical Care. Mark has over 10 years of experience in the nursing management of geriatric residents.
From there he acquired his Nursing Home Administrator’s license and achieved this professional goal in 2017. Tami has been licensed as an administrator for 5 years now and has managed several different nursing homes in eastern PA, one of which was a 115-bed dementia care facility.” In May 2021, He began working at the DuBois Nursing Home in May 2021 then a few months later Mark was promoted to Administrator of DuBois Nursing Home where he has the opportunity to work closely with staff to reach the common goal which we expect each and every day which is to provide the highest level of quality care to our residents.
Mark chose to move back to his hometown of Brockway to be close to his family and to raise a family of his own. He resides with his wife, and two young children.
Penny Hoch graduated from Punxsutawney Area High School in 1983. In 1990, she took a nursing assistant class at a local nursing home. She worked in that capacity until 1993 when she realized nursing was the career path of her choice. Hoch entered L.P.N. school at Lenape School of Practical Nursing in Ford City, PA. After graduating in 1994 from the practical nursing program, she began her career at the DuBois Nursing Home as a graduate practical nurse.
While working part-time at DuBois Nursing Home, she decided to enroll in the nursing program at Mount Aloysius College in 1997.
Due to being an L.P.N., she was able to take advantage of and was accepted into the accelerated course giving her an Associate Degree in Nursing upon graduating in the summer of 1998. She then returned as a full-time employee at DuBois Nursing Home until 2012. Penny was offered the position of Assistant Director of Nursing at St. Andrews Village in Indiana, PA. She stayed in that position until she was asked to be the Director of Nursing at Mulberry Square in Punxsutawney, PA, in 2014.
After four years at Mulberry Square, Hoch decided it was time to return to DuBois Nursing Home, where she began her nursing career. She was the Assistant Director of Nursing and then transitioned to the Director of Nursing. Penny has been a Registered Nurse for 24 years. Looking back on her journey and experiences, her passion is to continue to guide and direct her staff each and every day to ensure consistent care is provided to the residents and to the Community.