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Elizabeth Marie Fago has been involved in long-term care since 1985 and is a charismatic and passionate leader with a proven track record of success in the development and management of healthcare properties. She demonstrates all of the qualities of a true and passionate leader. Her dedication to the long-term health care industry has led her on a distinguished career path culminating in Ms. Fago being Chairman and Founder of one of the largest, privately held healthcare companies in the United States. She is an entrepreneur in every sense of the word and was accepted into membership of The Committee of 200 in 2001. By invitation of the President of the United States, she was one of only 50 successful women to attend the 2001 Women Business Leaders Forum at the White House. She has been recognized with numerous awards and honors throughout her distinguished career.
To truly appreciate the astounding success of Home Quality Management, lnc. and its parent company Healthcare Acquisitions, Inc., one must go back to the beginning.
For Elizabeth, her career began when she was merely a teen as she became interested in real estate and learned to put deals together with the guidance of her father. With just a taste of entrepreneurship, she was off and running. Ms. Fago had the determination to build her own successful commercial real estate company. Some of her clients owned nursing homes thus introducing her to the world of health care for senior adults. Ms. Fago started with long-term care properties that that were in financial trouble as these were all that she could afford. She gave with all that she had from painting and decorating, hiring caring employees and hands-on running of the daily operations along with all of the pressures of budgeting to dealing with Medicare and Medicaid. Elizabeth continued to put herself into making the original facilities profitable to a point of attaining the ability to purchase the cream of the crop today. At its peak HQM operated 72 long-term care facilities, some of which have been recognized on the Floor of the U.S. Congress and at State and National levels. They have also been cited in the "Congressional Record" for Quality of Care and Community Involvement. The results of Ms. Fago's years of labor and dedication both as a successful businesswoman and as a leader in the Health Care Industry are most easily summarized as follows.