Elmore County native Tammy Moseley is now on the job as the new administrator for Tallassee Health & Rehabilitation facility on Gilmer Avenue. She had many years of hands-on experience in the health care field before turning to the administrative facet.
Moseley is originally from Wetumpka, and completed the Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) program at Trenholm State Technical College in Montgomery.
- New administrator Tammy Moseley envisions a positive future for Tallassee Health & Rehabilitation. Photo by Willie G. Moseley
“I started working at Wetumpka Health and Rehab in 1992, as a certified nursing assistant,” she said. “I worked as an LPN until I went to Southern Union College, and I graduated from there in 1999, with an Associate degree in nursing. During my nursing career, I have worked in many nursing homes. I even went to Arkansas.”
Her most recent assignment was as the Director of Nursing at the Wetumpka facility where she began her career. She held that position for eight years before applying for the administrator position in Tallassee, as she had become certified for such a position a few years earlier.
“I wanted to know more about the field, and I like to know what’s going on, so in 2008, I decided to become a licensed nursing home administrator,” Moseley said. “I took the certification exam in Arkansas, and I had to know all of the regulations for Arkansas, Alabama, and the federal regulations. I had learned a lot of it in my earlier years from a previous administrator, who had kind of ‘groomed’ me to move up. I held on to my license until a position became available that seemed right.”
During her time working in geriatric health care, Moseley has seen an evolution in the way which seniors and incapacitated patients receive care, and she noted that the facility in Tallassee also has patients who have been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease, the diagnosis and treatment of which is also a relatively new area in medicine.
“It’s changed, in a lot of different ways,” she said her career field. “For example, when younger patients come in for rehab, their expectations are different, because in previous years, it was just basically long-term care.”
The Tallassee facility’s rehabilitation patients include patients who reside at the facility and those who are residing elsewhere.
Moseley noted that Tallassee Health & Rehabilitation’s assisted living section has been renovated, and other portions of the facility will be undergoing remodeling in the near future. The new renovations will include the addition of an Alzheimer’s unit, and the new administrator is upbeat about the coming changes.
“It’s needed, and it will be wonderful for this facility,” she said of the Alzheimer’s unit. “We’re also going to build a new therapy gym, and we’re going to do an ‘update’ to the outside of the building.”
