Fulcrum Care, the care home management consultants, has increased its commitment to providing excellence in care by appointing renowned industry leader Karen Johnson as Head of Quality Assurance.
Karen brings with her 25 years of experience and will head up the quality assurance team and support the continued growth in the business by implementing a new ground-breaking extension of services to clients.
Her extensive background has focussed predominately on quality and operations for elderly care. From a successful career working in care home inspection turnaround, followed by senior operational and strategic roles, Karen was most recently Clinical Director and Chief Nurse at HC One, the largest provider of care homes in the UK.
Fulcrum Care’s CEO, Tony Thiru, said: “This is an exciting moment for Fulcrum as we look to expand the business after continued growth and development. We are delighted to have Karen join us at such a pivotal time. Her arrival enables us to develop and implement an extended service and product offering to the sector in a way that will be a gamechanger for smaller providers. Karen is passionate about the delivery of safe, reliable quality care for all and uses her knowledge and experience to ensure policies and procedures are evidence-based and a useful tool to make a manager’s life easier and to give owners and investors the insights they need to strengthen care and commercials.”
Karen’s appointment positions Fulcrum to build on its successes of 2021, winning Business Services at the national Leaders in Care Awards run by Care Home Professional and Home Care Insight, and Fulcrum’s IPC Health Checks being named as one of Care Home Professional’s Best Products and Services of 2021.
Karen Johnson, who brings expertise of working across all three regions – England, Scotland and Wales – said: “I am delighted to be joining Fulcrum and to be part of the upward trajectory of the firm.”
She added: “In the future for the industry, and as part of Fulcrum’s offering, I want to see the support that larger providers can give, such as support services and teams of experts, be available to everyone, even owners with one care home. I want to deliver the level of support that big providers take for granted and bring the skills and experience that I and the team at Fulcrum have and make them available to everyone.”