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Denise Van Tassell, R.N. B.S. LNHA CALA
- Alzheimers Care
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Alcoeur Gardens
1126 Lakewood Road Toms River, NJ 08753
Phone: 732-290-2273 | Fax: 732.244.2831
Website: alcoeurgardens.com | Email: denise@alcoeurgardens.com
Denise founded Alcoeur Gardens after having earned Nursing and Biology degrees from CUNY Staten Island and New York Regents College. She went on to gain years of experience working in various hospitals and nursing homes. With a natural love for seniors she was so often frustrated by the institutional feel in senior care facilities that twenty years ago she decided to strike out on her own and create home-like alternative-living facilities for the memory impaired. From one facility, Alcoeur Gardens has now grown to include several new, clean, comfortable home-like facilities in Toms River, NJ and Aberdeen, NJ.
Aside from her roles as Chief Operating Officer and Founding Partner of Alcoeur Gardens, Van Tassell is also a Certified Assisted Living Administrator (CALA) and Licensed Nursing Home Administrator (LNHA) and the President of Varis Health Consultants, a company approved by the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide education for Nursing Home Administrators in the State of New Jersey.