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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Selected Growth & Impact Highlights
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Ricardo Jones

Cambria Heights,USA

Summary

Growth-focused healthcare operator with over a decade of experience building, stabilizing, and scaling multi-site personal care, home care, and regulated service operations across competitive markets. Known for hands-on leadership, sales execution, and market ownership, not armchair strategy. Proven ability to grow private pay and consumer-directed care revenue, build referral pipelines, recruit and retain care teams, and deliver results while maintaining strict regulatory compliance. Trusted leader who thrives in fast-growth environments and understands how to convert community relationships into sustained revenue.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

REGIONAL DIRECTOR, OPERATIONS & COMPLIANCE

Healthcare, Home Care, and Human Services
New York, New York
03.2018 - 06.2021

Directed operations for complex, multi-site healthcare, and human services programs with high regulatory oversight and diverse payer sources.

  • Led operational strategy across multiple states, managing budgets, staffing models, compliance frameworks, and service delivery outcomes.
  • Supported growth initiatives by aligning operational readiness with sales, and referral expansion.
  • Built compliance-first operating models that supported growth, without sacrificing quality or regulatory integrity.
  • Advised executive leadership on risk, market readiness, and expansion feasibility.
  • Implemented standardized operating procedures that improved consistency while allowing local market flexibility.

Senior Regional Operations Leader

Confidential Healthcare Organization
Manhasset, New York
03.2015 - 01.2018

Led end-to-end operations and growth strategy for multi-location personal care and home care services across highly regulated markets. Full accountability for revenue growth, staffing capacity, compliance, and service quality.

  • Owned full operational and growth responsibility for multi-site personal care and home care services across competitive, regulated markets.
  • Led market expansion strategies focused on private pay and consumer-directed care, driving sustained revenue growth, and improved utilization.
  • Served as the primary market representative, building and maintaining strong relationships with hospitals, physicians, social workers, community organizations, and payers.
  • Partnered closely with sales, recruitment, and clinical leadership to align capacity with demand, and eliminate service gaps.
  • Built, coached, and held accountable high-performing operational and clinical leadership teams.

Education

MBA - Management And Leadership

City University of New York
New York (City), NY
05-2026

Bachelor of Science - Business Management

Adelphi University
Garden City, NY
08-2021

Bachelor of Science - Healthcare Management

Globe Institute
New York, NY
07-2015

Skills

  • Market growth and expansion strategy
  • Private pay and consumer-directed care growth
  • Sales execution and referral development
  • Multi-site operations leadership
  • P&L ownership and margin improvement
  • Recruitment & workforce capacity building
  • Regulatory compliance and risk management
  • Community partnerships and payer relations
  • Data-driven performance management
  • Hands-on, field-based leadership

Selected Growth & Impact Highlights

  • Expanded service capacity in constrained labor markets by aligning recruitment strategy with real-time demand
  • Strengthened private pay conversion by improving response time, intake processes, and referral follow-through
  • Stabilized underperforming locations through hands-on leadership and direct engagement with referral partners
  • Improved caregiver retention by addressing operational pain points and leadership visibility
  • Built community trust through consistent presence, follow-up, and reliability, not just sales messaging

Timeline

REGIONAL DIRECTOR, OPERATIONS & COMPLIANCE

Healthcare, Home Care, and Human Services
03.2018 - 06.2021

Senior Regional Operations Leader

Confidential Healthcare Organization
03.2015 - 01.2018

MBA - Management And Leadership

City University of New York

Bachelor of Science - Business Management

Adelphi University

Bachelor of Science - Healthcare Management

Globe Institute