Center Welcomes New Administrator
COOPERSTOWN—Cooperstown Center, the 174-bed skilled nursing facility on Phoenix Mills Cross Road and part of the Centers Health Care family of skilled nursing facilities, has a new administrator.
Jo Peterson is a resident of Morgantown, West Virginia, where she lives with her husband and their two children. She has a bachelor’s degree in healthcare administration and specializes in long-term care.
“I am renting an apartment in Cooperstown on Chestnut Street. I love the community here,” said Peterson in a recent e-mail. “My family hasn’t decided yet if we will be relocating. My oldest daughter is a senior in high school and we want to let her finish at ‘home.’”
Peterson has been a licensed nursing home administrator for 12 years and has worked in the long-term care industry for 20 years. She is deeply passionate about the care of residents in long-term care.
“We are very excited that Ms. Peterson has come aboard to head up our Cooperstown Center,” said Jeff Jacomowitz, director of corporate communications at Centers Health Care. “She brings a wealth of experience and much successes with her, and she is surely a people-person, where she gets to know the residents on both the short-term and long-term care. We are very lucky to have Jo.”
Peterson started work at Cooperstown Center on May 3.
“I love the facility as a whole. It’s a beautiful building on a spectacular piece of property. I have made some changes, but mostly things like accountability for all staff and reinstating outings and events for our residents. We recently did a car show at the center and are currently planning a Fall Festival for the center and the community in September.
Prior to coming to Cooperstown Center, Peterson was the executive director at CommuniCare Health Services in Charlottesville, Virginia from the end of 2022 into 2023, but spent six years, from 2016 to 2022, as a Nursing Home Administrator with Genesis in Morgantown, West Virginia.
In her spare time, Peterson enjoys watching her daughters play softball and volleyball. She also enjoys traveling with her husband to watch Major League Baseball.
“My family LOVES baseball and softball! My oldest daughter is hoping to play softball at Niagara University in 2024,” Peterson wrote. “My husband and I have traveled the country visiting MLB parks. Our favorite team is the Atlanta Braves. My husband and I have a goal to visit ALL the MLB parks in the country.
“We went to see the Baseball Hall of Fame over Memorial Weekend and loved it. It’s very impressive and filled with monumental history. We really enjoyed it.”