The senior executive has been with the Perth-based provider of retirement living and aged care for the past 15 years.
Under Chris’s watch, Bethanie Group has grown to provide the full continuum of ageing services including retirement villages, aged care facilities, home care, social centres and serviced apartments in metropolitan Perth and regional Western Australia.
“Chris has led Bethanie with energy, vision and heart and we are all very grateful for his long and dedicated service. He leaves a legacy of significant contribution to the transformation and leadership of the Bethanie Mission, and an excellent roadmap into the next exciting phase of our journey,” Bethanie said in a LinkedIn post.
Having worked as a part-time care worker at Bethanie when he was only 17, Chris worked in the private sector and as state commercial manager at the Independent Practitioner Network in 2005, before completing his MBA in Health Care Administration in 2008. Returning to Bethanie as a regional manager, Chris was quickly promoted to general manager and then to CEO in April 2014.
In the year to June 2022, Bethanie owned and operated 859 independent living units across 11 retirement villages with 502 social housing units, had 13 aged care homes with 1,134 beds, provided home care to 1,266 customers including 416 Home Care Packages.
Bethanie generated revenue of $144.5 million (2021: $143.1 million) and incurred a net loss of $19.1 million last financial year (2021: $5.5 million).
